What is the purpose of the commentary in the underlined text?
Read the passage from "Stalin: A Brutal Legacy
Uncovered," which is an informational text about
Stalin's atrocities and how he used ambition and fear
to rule over people of the Soviet Union.
As Khrushchev informed the closed session of the
Party apparatchiks, his report-which has entered
history as the "Secret Speech"-was based on
research by a special commission of senior leaders of
the Communist Party. It covered primarily only one part
of Stalin's murderous record: the peak years of his
savage "Great Purge" in the mid- and late 1930s, a
massacre that wiped out a whole generation of
Bolsheviks, the Party's oldest and most faithful
members.
Khrushchev, who went on to become the Soviet prime
minister, said next to nothing about the rest of Stalin's
victims, who have been estimated at more than 20
million
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