What methods of control Stalin would have learnt from the seminary?

Question by rainbow fun: What methods of control do you think Joseph Stalin would have learnt from the seminary?
What methods of control do you think Joseph Stalin would have learnt from the seminary?

Self control probably!

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Answer by Xamanator
If you get people chanting things over and over again, they come to believe it.

I’m serious. Stalin did pick up a repetitive type of discourse from the liturgy he studied in the seminary.
Look at his ‘Groaning under the yoke’ article about the nationalities. Seven successive paragraphs begin with these words.
And again, on the fiveyear plan:
We did not have a [eg machine-tools industry]. Now we have one. Repeated about ten times.
He carried on with this to the end of his life.

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