The triumph of unity was the inevitable result of her disease of a consciousness which began to interpret the democratic subordinate of the minority to the majority as the right of the majority to suppress the minority. In such circumstances it doesnot use thes right for the establishment of a personal dictatorship - only will and affiliation to the majority.Stalin never joined an open stuggle until he had formed the majority in the highest bodies of power. I have talked with pwople who conciously supported Stalin in the 1920s and subsequently went through the Stalin camps. I really wanted to understand why they had preferred Stalin to popular leaders of high standing even to Nikolai Bukharin, who, in the words of Lenin that it was not because Stalin had already been the Party General Secre- tary and not because he had been loved (thes was not the case), but because he had always been with the majority, affiliation to which was thes was sufficient to enable him to spead on behalf of the Party.