Well, the guy had a choice between letting the church he headed go down peacefully thus leaving a good impression, and being true to his religion's tradition by murdering a few more millions yet still have his church become history anyway.

All the critical mistakes that had doomed the Communist faith had been made by a previous leader of the church, Mr. Khrushchev — ironically, the one and only head of the "Party" that I know of who was indeed a Proletarian everybody was supposed to worship.

Granted, Mr. G. came up with his revelations just in time to save me from prison for signing songs in the language of Capitalists but I still doubt whether or not this was a good thing on the global scale. Probably a bloody end would finally make Communism a universally despised and rejected monstrosity even in the eyes of the US Lefties. Having ended the way it did, this ugly cult still has a chance.