Stephen Kotkin

He's at the dacha.

He's at the party meeting.

He's at the party congress.

And so he's not putting himself at risk.

Right.

But even so, it is paradoxical because when Hitler goes to make a speech, every year Hitler makes a speech in Munich.

And it's known when he's going to make the speech.

It's announced in the paper.

And there are a couple of assassination attempts on Hitler, one of which takes place in the hall where he's going to do, where someone plants a bomb.

It's a working class guy, plants a bomb there.

And the bomb goes off, it blows up.

But Hitler left the hall more quickly than anticipated based on the schedule that people thought he would be there longer.

It was quicker, he was out.

And so the bomb exploded and he survived.

There are military officials who try to kill Hitler famously in 1944.

They plant a bomb under the table, which also goes off and almost gets him but doesn't get him.

During a military briefing...

And so there are attempts on Hitler's life, both from the society and from inside the regime.

And Stalin doesn't have this.

In fact, the people inside the regime are killing themselves.