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The principles were extracted from Stalin: A Biography by Robert Service

The Principles:

1. Devote your life to an ideology, surrendering both thought and action to its cause. (01:50)

2. Support the heir apparent. When the new king is enthroned, you will be rewarded with power and prestige. (22:30)

3. When given an inch of responsibility, take a mile—power is seized by the bold and aggressive. (41:29)

4. Forge strategic alliances to eliminate your main rivals, collaborating until you wield enough power to reign supreme. (58:54)

5. Anoint yourself high priest of the ideology and claim supreme authority over its sacred dogma. (01:31:46)

6. Wield the dogma of the state’s ideology as a blade, cutting down your enemies with righteous precision. (01:44:38)

7. Once you hold power, purge all who are disloyal to your rule. (02:05:12)

8. Conceal your mistakes by scapegoating a subordinate. (02:27:30)