Masha Gessen | Donald Trump's Very Soviet Fixation on Applause





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Joseph Stalin and Donald Trump. (photo: Getty Images)
Masha Gessen, The New Yorker 
Gessen writes: "I sometimes joke that growing up in the Soviet Union prepared me for working as a journalist in the United States." 
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