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Originally posted by Kai-Petri:
Actually quite odd. Stalin did not sign usually meaningful papers in order to make sure he could always blame the person who did-like Molotov with the Ribbentrop deal...
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I doubt this a little. AFAIK, it was a common procedure that Stalin either signed documents (to approve them or make them "valid") or paraphased them as "being read" (but not necessarily approved).
I think this, along with pass-through-stamps, distribution lists etc. is the usual bureaucracy
procedure in any administration and there are many documents either signed or paraphrased by Stalin.
Cheers,