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1036 [lbo-talk] I'm a "committed Leninist" -- rank: 312

... I'm a fan of Kerensky and a defender of Stalin at the same >time? I can be all things to all people! Why not? Until Lenin's return, "Stalin" supported the Provisional Government--and that was when it was ... fantasy. As we all know, socialism was definitively established by "Stalin" and could never, ever, be overthrown! Shane Mage "Thunderbolt steers ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Fri May 28 07:56:15 PDT 2004

1037 [lbo-talk] "full of shit" -- rank: 312

... would have been all that different if somebody else except Stalin had come into the leadership. Maybe the USSR would have ... than an interesting footnote in history. History focuses on winners. Stalin built a superpower; Trotsky raised rabbits. For similar reasons, I ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Feb 3 04:04:54 PST 2004

1038 Buchanan: taking on Hitler was a mistake -- rank: 312

I'm all for giving Churchill due credit for his forthright stand against Nazi aggression in WW II. But outside of WW II (and even in it), he was a forthright defender of British imperialism in its most exaggerated form. Furthermore his performance in WW I was nothing to write home ...

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Author:	J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Date:	Fri Sep 17 11:48:00 PDT 1999

1039 [lbo-talk] Red Army purge -- rank: 312

... purged _35,000_ Red Army officers in 1937-38, as Stalin did. > Hk: In the best tradition of Thurston, Arch Getty ... Mark von > Hagen's history of the Red Army, and "Stalin's Generals Speak". Hari, what are the figures from those ...

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Author:	Grant Lee
Date:	Wed Feb 4 06:58:17 PST 2004

1040 Buchanan: taking on Hitler was a mistake -- rank: 312

sounds like some of pukanan's what if echoes harry truman's views of hitler vis a vis the rest of europe. gar alperovitz' "the decision to use the atomic bomb" has some priceless truman quotes. ian > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com > [mailto:owner-lbo-talk ...

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Author:	Lisa & Ian Murray
Date:	Thu Sep 16 20:00:07 PDT 1999

1041 [lbo-talk] RoseRussia: Polls Show Rise In Putin's Popularity, Support For 'Painful Reforms' -- rank: 312

... politic there from Russian friends (e.g. college students heroizing Stalin) -- I've met people of that age group who like Stalin, but most Stalinophiles are elderly, poor, uneducated and live in ... leader in that situation would have done something like what Stalin did. --- it's still a bit surprising to hear that ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun May 22 12:20:14 PDT 2005

1042 [lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance -- rank: 312

... here - thank God! Lenin was a beast and hateful murderer. Stalin is a very different question. The peoples of the Soviet Union defeated Hitler - with or without Stalin's "help." When Russians can agree on this, a healthly ... Russians are Stalinophiles, not Leninophiles. > Lenin didn't do shit. Stalin defeated an enormous > army. > > If Nicholas was bloody, what was ...

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Author:	Peter Lavelle
Date:	Sat Jun 18 15:18:47 PDT 2005

1043 [lbo-talk] Chalabi a Used-up Spook:Stratfor -- rank: 312

THE STRATFOR WEEKLY 28 May 2004 Overdoing Chalabi By George Friedman On Feb. 19, in a piece entitled "Ahmed Chalabi and His Iranian Connection," Stratfor laid out the close relationship Chalabi had with the Iranians, and the role that relationship played in the flow of intelligence to Washington prior to the ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Fri May 28 21:18:59 PDT 2004

1044 [lbo-talk] Beheading the Constitution -- rank: 312

Commander-In-Thief Harvey Wasserman: 'Will Bush the Beheader use terrorism to become our Pinochet?' Posted on Saturday, May 29 @ 10:01:29 EDT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Harvey Wasserman, Columbus Free Press Will George W. Bush use terrorism to become America's Pinochet? Attorney-General John Ashcroft is priming the public for a ...

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Sat May 29 18:21:26 PDT 2004

1045 [lbo-talk] RE: Overpaid Soviet workers -- rank: 312

... off then. No doubt some people have ostalgia for the Stalin era, too. But a wiser person might have taken this with a pinch of salt." I'm no Stalin worshipper and neither is Chris. He is describing the living ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Thu Feb 5 09:27:47 PST 2004

1046 [lbo-talk] Beria question -- rank: 312

... to recast himself as a reformer. As did all of Stalin's top lieutants. Khrushchev came out on top, despite a ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sun Feb 20 16:19:05 PST 2005

1047 [lbo-talk] Hamas "a project of Shin Bet" (was: Hezbollah vs IDF) -- rank: 312

... ideologically blinded. If many Russians have a > > positive attitude towards Stalin's legacy, or if > many > > Palestinians harbor anti-semitic sentiments ... course that is worth understanding, but not > supporting > > or justifying. > Stalin's high posthumous approval ratings have nothing to do with ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Oct 18 08:31:42 PDT 2006

1048 [lbo-talk] Hamas "a project of Shin Bet" (was: Hezbollah vs IDF) -- rank: 312

... t think politically alike. Many > > Russians, to this day, > > think Stalin is a greater leader than Lenin or > > Gorbachev and they > > apparently prefer Peter I and Alexander II to Stalin > > (cf. > > > <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2005/2005-January/000801 ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Oct 17 21:58:39 PDT 2006

1049 Buchanan: taking on Hitler was a mistake -- rank: 312

What if history is always pretty problematic, but if you take Buchanan's 'what if' as an historical description, it is surprisingly close to what happened. There was no war between Germany and America until such a time as Germany and the Soviet Union had exhausted each other. Britain, too, while ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Sep 16 18:39:34 PDT 1999

1050 [lbo-talk] Re: Red Army purge: Reply Part One_ What WereThe Numbers? -- rank: 312

... purged _35,000_ Red Army officers in 1937-38, as Stalin did. > Hk: In the best tradition of Thurston, Arch Getty ... Mark von > Hagen's history of the Red Army, and "Stalin's Generals Speak". GL: >Hari, what are the figures from ...

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Author:	Hari Kumar
Date:	Sun Feb 8 16:28:35 PST 2004