Bob Draper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I would certainly not seek to defend the barbarities inflicted on his own
>people by Stalin.  That includes the cultural purges of course.
>
>In fact to show just how crazy the man was I once heard that one of the
>few things that softened him was the performance of a Mozart piano sonata.

The story I've heard is that an LP of Mozart's piano concerto No.23 was
on his turntable at the time they found him dead in his bedroom.

Not exactly a piece one would think of as accompaniment for descent into
hell...

Ulvi
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