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1411 [lbo-talk] the cult of Putinism -- rank: 247

This is utterly lame. For some reason the Brits seem to be utterly unable to understand Russia (Lieven excepted). A few comments: >From the KGB to cult hero "Cult hero"? Putin is a cult hero? This makes him sound like he was acting Troma Films. Putin has an 80% approval rating ...

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Author:	" Chris Doss "
Date:	Sun Mar 14 03:33:22 PST 2004

1412 [lbo-talk] Suvery: Russians Name Vladimir Putin Most Successful Leader Since 1917 -- rank: 247

... Romir Monitoring survey. 37% of respondents voted for Putin. Joseph Stalin was next with 19%. Leonid Brezhnev was third with 11 ... supporters were young, highly educated and affluent members of society. Stalin was first among respondents 60 years of age and older ...

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Author:	" Chris Doss "
Date:	Tue Mar 9 01:20:47 PST 2004

1413 [lbo-talk] Re: a duo for pathologists? -- rank: 247

... any more. Then we had two very atheist dictators, called Stalin and Hitler, who between them killed even more people than ... the sacred." with everything else that can be dumped on stalin, this is at least partly right in calling him an ...

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Author:	frank scott
Date:	Mon Mar 8 12:19:16 PST 2004

1414 [lbo-talk] RE: BDL and Sweezy -- rank: 247

... their adversaries by linking them to conventionally designated monsters (Hitler, Stalin, McCarthy, Osama bin Ladin, the archetypical 'Racist,' 'Holocaust Denier,' etc.). Portraying Sweezy as an intellectual heir of Stalin is a part of this sad trend." Hey, that's ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Tue Mar 2 11:45:58 PST 2004

1415 [lbo-talk] BDL on Sweezy -- rank: 247

Shane: > As everyone on this list knows, I despise the Okhranik gravedigger > of the revolution more intensely than Mr. DeLong ever could. > But, whoever actually wrote it, "Economic Problems of Socialism > in the USSR" was far from devoid of interest to Marxists. Paul > Sweezy's comments at the time could now ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Tue Mar 2 08:26:16 PST 2004

1416 [lbo-talk] King of the Hill: solons watch Moon crown self Messiah -- rank: 247

... the Messiah and said his teachings have helped Hitler and Stalin be "reborn as new persons." At the March 23 ceremony ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 23 10:59:26 PDT 2004

1417 [lbo-talk] 60th Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising -- rank: 247

The Hindu Friday, Jul 30, 2004 Healing of a great wound By Peter Avis The first day of August marks the 60th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis. Nearly 200,000 Poles died in the fighting that lasted until October 2. IT WAS at 5 p ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Fri Jul 30 10:03:25 PDT 2004

1418 [lbo-talk] Sudan: The Passion of the Present -- rank: 247

... don't write paeons to the great > leader. Look at Stalin -- Stalin had great foreign PR. > Foreign intellectuals were at his beck ...

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Author:	lweiger at umich.edu
Date:	Mon Jul 26 12:31:13 PDT 2004

1419 [lbo-talk] Sudan: The Passion of the Present -- rank: 247

... don't write paeons to the great leader. Look at Stalin -- Stalin had great foreign PR. Foreign intellectuals were at his beck ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Jul 26 11:39:53 PDT 2004

1420 [lbo-talk] Editor of Russian Forbes murdered -- rank: 247

... War and Revolution, and the Yeltsin era. > >Note that the Stalin era does not appear. The >implication is that Yeltsin was worse than Stalin. > >This is _Solzhenitsyn_ talking, folks! > > >

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Jul 15 06:43:13 PDT 2004

1421 [lbo-talk] Editor of Russian Forbes murdered -- rank: 247

... War and Revolution, and the Yeltsin era. > >Note that the Stalin era does not appear. The >implication is that Yeltsin was worse than Stalin. > >This is _Solzhenitsyn_ talking, folks! > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Read only ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Thu Jul 15 00:52:11 PDT 2004

1422 [lbo-talk] Editor of Russian Forbes murdered -- rank: 247

... War and Revolution, and the Yeltsin era. Note that the Stalin era does not appear. The implication is that Yeltsin was worse than Stalin. This is _Solzhenitsyn_ talking, folks! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Jul 15 00:19:00 PDT 2004

1423 [lbo-talk] Picasso is not a communist [foia] -- rank: 247

... from Picasso: Creator & Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, 1988) When Stalin died in 1953, Aragon published a portrait of him in ... Les Lettres françaises under the headline 'What We Owe to Stalin". It was drawn by Picasso and arose furor. Aragon thanked ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Jul 10 07:56:20 PDT 2004

1424 [lbo-talk] Petersburg/Lenin -- rank: 247

... Actually it's > rather similar to how many people view Stalin, though society is far > more united in its view of Lenin. Society is polarized around Stalin. I suppose most countries have some sort of mythologized Founding ...

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Author:	Jon Johanning
Date:	Thu Jan 29 06:40:01 PST 2004

1425 [lbo-talk] Petersburg/Lenin -- rank: 247

... Actually it's rather similar to how many people view Stalin, though society is far more united in its view of Lenin. Society is polarized around Stalin. _________________________________________________________________ There are now three new levels of MSN Hotmail Extra ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Jan 29 00:28:51 PST 2004