If one approaches such reports with a distorted mind, I'm afraid the picture will be distorted as well.
You seem to know Stalin's mind better than anyone else. Let's remember that these are only your own assumptions.
Everything that ruins a deeply entrenched picture is bound to be called a revisionism. Any new discovered fact is disregarded and proclaimed revisionism just because it interferes with the comfortable and traditionally-accepted "truth". This is the way with science in general and the historic science in particular. Russia is especially good at the latter. And evidently, not only Russia.
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