I think it was either Solzhenitsyn or the Yugoslavian communist, Ante
Ciliga, in his book 'The Russian Enigma',
who described the communist as "good
thinkers." What was meant by this, is that many didn't really believe
or want to believe, that comrade Stalin was directing and orchestrating the
terror and the mass arrests, from his little corner in the Kremlin. They always
wanted to believe that others were responsible for what was taking place and
that the boss was unaware of it.
Stalin had members of his wife's family arrested, interrogated and imprisoned and some were executed. Many of these thought Stalin was unaware of their predicament. Molotov's wife was denounced and arrested on trumped up charges and Molotov voted in favour of his wife arrest at a Politburo meeting. She was sent to a labour camp.
Just before Zinoviev was shot, he was pleading hysterically with his guards to contact comrade Stalin because he believed that Stalin would save him. He literally begged for his life and clung to the leg of an NKVD officer. Kamenev told him to die like a man. When Stalin was told about Zinoviev's pleas to his guards, he pissed himself laughing. Uncle Joe wasn't just a peasant slayer; he liquidated a lot of communists as well.
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