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The power of his regime, as one of his biographers writes, was breathtaking. That power rested on the telegraph, a small handful of aides, the Communist Party machine, the secret police, the army, and the dream of a better world. That power enabled him to create a totalitarian regime in which millions of people lost their lives. Who is this man? How did he manage to create this totalitarian regime? Listen in the next few History Thursdays.