Stalinist socialism. Practical research

Most Western authors write about Stalin as a monster, the dictator is worse than Hitler, who built his state on the corpses of fellow citizens. However, not everything is so clear. Many contemporaries of Stalin - writers and science figures - admired Stalinist socialism, a strong Soviet state, the only one that was able to resist the Nazi threat.
Klaus Hesse - Professor of the Berlin Free University and an employee of the Museum Topography of Terror. For many years he studied the Nazi and Stalinist state systems. A serious analysis of Russian sources allowed the author to prove the ambiguity of the assessment of Stalinist socialism. Klaus Hesse is convinced that all books about mass repressions are a deliberate falsification of the history of socialism.
As a result, Hesse was banned in Germany