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1231 [lbo-talk] Kremlin -- rank: 247

Joseph Stalin <http://www.newsweek.com/related.aspx?subject=Joseph+Stalin> never had any problem finding willing executioners. Everyone from his ...

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Author:	John E. Norem
Date:	Thu Jan 10 13:08:07 PST 2008

1232 [lbo-talk] Chickens and unfertilized eggs (was Catholicism, was Re: blacks about... -- rank: 247

You're wasting your time Chris. Shane can post that "Only since the late 20th century, when henhouses became factories and roosters became friers, has there existed such a thing as a presumptively *unfertilized* egg."; something which is demonstrably incorrect but he then flails about with misdirections about abortion and what ...

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Sun Dec 14 19:16:57 PST 2008

1233 [lbo-talk] Caucasian Geo-graphy -- rank: 247

... don't mean this as a dig at Georgia, but Stalin and Beria are in fact Georgian national heroes to this ... started a victory march in 2003 from the statue of Stalin in Gori. It's not surprising, given that they are ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Aug 25 06:06:31 PDT 2008

1234 [lbo-talk] Caucasian Geo-graphy -- rank: 247

... don't mean this as a dig at Georgia, but Stalin and Beria are in > fact Georgian national heroes to this ... started a > victory march in 2003 from the statue of Stalin in Gori. It's not > surprising, given that they are ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Fri Aug 22 20:35:32 PDT 2008

1235 [lbo-talk] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89 (NY Times) -- rank: 247

www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin August 4, 2008 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89 By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose stubborn, lonely and combative literary struggles gained the force of prophecy he revealed the heavy afflictions of Soviet Communism in some of ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Sun Aug 3 17:25:54 PDT 2008

1236 [lbo-talk] I Hate Daniel Goldhagen. (Was Re: Reading suggestions needed -- rank: 247

... I just read Zhores Medvedev's book on > this. > > Actually Stalin never engaged in mass killing of > > anybody on ethnic grounds. > > > > Stalin did scatter the Volga Germans through alien > > lands, but he ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Apr 25 12:29:54 PDT 2008

1237 [lbo-talk] I Hate Daniel Goldhagen. (Was Re: Reading suggestions needed -- rank: 247

... I just read Zhores Medvedev's book on this. Actually Stalin never engaged in mass killing of anybody on ethnic grounds. Stalin did scatter the Volga Germans through alien lands, but he ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Apr 24 21:20:24 PDT 2008

1238 [lbo-talk] Pat Buchanan on Ahmadinejad -- rank: 247

... unparalleled scale has no bearing on his courageousness. So was Stalin. Stalin didn't have to stay in Moscow during the Battle ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Sep 26 14:24:28 PDT 2007

1239 [lbo-talk] Market Failure vs Government Failure -- rank: 247

Ismail: I guess if we removed Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Pinochet etc... as these may be described as individual ... up faltering demand, investment, etc. From that point of view, Stalin and Hitler were great success stories, even though their politics ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Tue Sep 11 10:48:26 PDT 2007

1240 [lbo-talk] Jewish "nation"? (Was Armenian genocide?) -- rank: 247

... urbanization had driven rural Jews into the cities, especially given Stalin's attemot to tie farmers to the collective farms. and ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Oct 18 12:50:36 PDT 2007

1241 [lbo-talk] A small piece of brown colored mass -- rank: 247

... 3, op. 3, d. 65, l. 25-26 To: Cde. Stalin Copy to Cde. Kaganovich On 16 October an employee of ... Department, Cde. Sentaretskaya, opened the daily mail addressed to Cde. Stalin. In one of the open packages there seemed to be ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Oct 8 13:10:57 PDT 2007

1242 [lbo-talk] Reform & revolution, socialism & communism -- rank: 247

Someone asked me whether I thought that my idea of evolving a better way of living from within capitalism implied revolution or reform. And Doug said that if we have to wait for "socialist revolution" to fix the environmental problem we're all doomed. So I thought that I would post ...

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Author:	Tahir Wood
Date:	Wed Nov 28 04:10:32 PST 2007

1243 [lbo-talk] Idea -- rank: 247

... Road Socialist Organizations. They split some years ago.... over the Stalin question. Broadly speaking, the Chicago-Minneapolis Group takes the Stalin is a neat guy stance. I think that this comes ...

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Author:	wrobert at uci.edu
Date:	Wed Nov 7 19:09:42 PST 2007

1244 [lbo-talk] bulldozer barbarians sacking Moscow -- rank: 247

... The Guardian Its buildings include florid art nouveau houses, brutalist Stalin-era skyscrapers and a magnificent Willy Wonka-like chocolate factory ...

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Author:	Colin Brace
Date:	Thu May 17 04:36:26 PDT 2007

1245 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy -- rank: 247

... in some unspecified way, must be somehow deluded, like under Stalin. For was Stalin not also popular? People say the same thing about Chavez ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun May 13 06:21:12 PDT 2007