“Ain’t it funny how the factory’s doors close? ’Round the time that the school doors close? ’Round the time that the doors of the jail cells Open up to greet you like the reaper?”

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/dec/testamnt/congress.htm

Tldr: In Lenin’s final letters, he said Stalin was rude and that he might not show enough caution using power as Secretary-General

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician)

I hadn’t read about this division in detail before, only heard about the collaboration with the Nazis. For a division formed “to fight for Ukrainian independence from the Soviets”, they spent an incredibly large percentage of their time fighting partisans outside of Ukraine.

At the end of WWII, a special plea was made to the pope that they were good Catholics and fervent anti-communists. This insured they were not sent to the USSR, but a settler-colony more closely aligned with their views. Clearly they were outstanding candidates for KKKanadian citizenship