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In reply to the discussion: John Meacham finally goes there on Morning Joe. [View all]NNadir
(33,582 posts)...at Yalta as "my Himmler. "
It is true that his death was not quite so maniacal as in the film, but most accounts, including as I recall Radzinsky's have him begging for his life at the end.
I recall reading excerpts of Anna Larina Bukharin's This I Cannot Forget . I believe it was there that Bukharin's letters to Stalin begging for his life, also buried in the archives, were discussed in which he begged Stalin to let him retire in obscurity with her. The old Bolscheviks had to go however, since they actually knew whence Stalin came, and that he was not at the right hand of the God Stalin did so much to create in Lenin.
For some reason, that I cannot really explain, of all of them, I have a certain sympathy for Bukharin. He seems less tawdry than the others.