Why we tolerate dictators
By Kuldip Dhiman

WHEN Joseph Stalin died in 1953 after a quarter-century of brutal rule, he was not only the indisputable master of the then Soviet Union but also of other Soviet bloc countries, covering nearly two million square kilometres with a population of 1,34,188,000.

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