Stalin was possible because there were
always judges to judge in accordance with his decree.[1]
Paul Ricoeur, History
and Truth (1964)
[1]
Paul Ricoeur, “The Political Paradox” in History
and Truth, tr. Charles A. Kelbley (Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University
Press, 2007), p. 268. The first edition
of History and Truth appeared in 1955
and the second appeared in 1964. Ricoeur’s
“The Political Paradox” was first published in 1957, following the Hungarian
Uprising of 1956.