Elon nails it again.
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As an aside, Stalin was a fan of Ivan the Terrible (which is a mistranslation of a Russian world that means amazing, wonderful, terrible). He saw, or at least presented, his purges as replicating what Ivan's oprichniki did to the boyars in nominal defense of the population.
More like Ivan the Terrific, amirite?
Ironically, terrible, terrific, formidable originally meant about the same thing. Funny how language evolves.
When one has SOME awe, they're Awesome. When when has FULL awe, they're Awful.
ivan the infamous, then?