You’re correct, but I don’t see how that contradicts what I said. A “diligent citizen” might have recognized that “Stalin ain’t it”. Instead the population, being naively trusting of their leaders, sat idle while their ‘constitution’ was eroded and political power was gradually funneled to a dictator (going by the book). Just because it was about specific events doesn’t just mean it was nothing but a neet story, there’s something to LEARN here. It was just as much a lesson for the future as it was of the past