Kremlin Moves Against The Jehovah’s Witnesses First On Russia’s Periphery – OpEd

When Stalin defeated Trotsky for the leadership of the Bolsheviks in the 1920s, all of the general secretary’s victories in the first years were in the periphery of the country where in many cases Stalin had drawn the lines and installed his people. Only near the end did the future dictator defeat Trotsky in the major cities...