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I don't know enough about Russia under Stalin. I can believe that passivity was a good strategy, but how about knowing how to manipulate the system, if only in small ways?
My impression is that periodic purges made any kind of success dangerous -- the best survival strategy was just to keep your head down and not stick out in any way.