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166 [lbo-talk] Stalin v Hitler? -- rank: 562

Stalin's 'fight' against Hitler Opportunistically, the Stalinists favour a right-wing regime in Germany German communist Heinz Neumann warned Stalin about the threat posed by the 'Nationalists' i.e. the monarchist Nazi alliance, Stalin replied 'Don't you think Neumann, that if the Nationalists ...

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Author:	heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Date:	Thu Feb 5 07:37:32 PST 2004

167 [lbo-talk] NEOCOSERVATISM, WHERE TROTSKY MEETS STALIN AND HITLER -- rank: 562

... Trifkovic/NewsST072303.html July 23, 2003 NEOCOSERVATISM, WHERE TROTSKY MEETS STALIN AND HITLER by Srdja Trifkovic The neoconservatives are often depicted ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Aug 4 07:08:44 PDT 2003

168 [lbo-talk] Stalin's Popularity -- rank: 562

... lot of the returning soldiers were. Guess > what? He liked Stalin. > > "I killed many fascists for Stalin" he said. He was sometimes mentally > spotty due to advanved ... rushed > to partially defend the camp. That is how popular Stalin was. http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Scripts/LifeOfBrian ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Fri Jul 25 04:52:19 PDT 2003

169 [lbo-talk] 'Stalin wasn't stallin'' -- rank: 562

... run by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady. Given the mockery Stalin and his successors made of socialism,

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Author:	heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Date:	Wed Feb 4 20:04:45 PST 2004

170 [lbo-talk] rehabilitating Stalin -- rank: 562

[from Popbitch] >> Stalin revisited << Wanted: PR firm who will do anything If Max ... new one for him - and possibly an easier one - rescuing Stalin's reputation. Russia is looking for a Brussels-based PR ... that he asked, "Do you want us to say that Stalin was not such a bad guy?' The answer was, "Well ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 5 11:55:00 PST 2009

171 [lbo-talk] Family, dads, Stalin/Ilya Ehrenburg -- rank: 562

... one being the guy in heaven, who appointed the Tsar). Stalin was the Father of the Peoples. There have been many ... always shut them down. Actually what's ironic about these Stalin monuments is that they are democracy in action. In Brezhnev ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Jun 2 13:51:14 PDT 2006

172 [lbo-talk] "Full of shit" - -- rank: 562

... Mark von Hagen's > history of the Red Army, and "Stalin's Generals Speak". Hari Kumar A selection of recent books ... Modern War Studies) by David M. Glantz (Hardcover - May 1998) Stalin's War: Tragedy and Triumph, 1941-1945 by Edwin Palmer Hoyt (Hardcover - March 2003) Stalin's Other War: Soviet Grand Strategy, 1939-1941 by Albert ... L. Weeks, Albert Loren Weeks (Hardcover - October 2002) Hitler Versus Stalin by John Erickson (Author), Ljubica Erickson (Author) (Paperback ) Other Editions: Paperback - February 2003 The Unknown Stalin by Roy Medvedev, et al (Hardcover ) The People's War ... Robert W. Thurston (Editor), Bernd Bonwetsch (Editor) (Hardcover - January 2001) Stalin's Secret War: Soviet Counterintelligence Against the Nazis, 1941- ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Feb 4 06:17:18 PST 2004

173 [lbo-talk] Stalin's image, was: Re: great moments in the history of ... -- rank: 562

... he supported this position (anti-expropriation) while continuing to have Stalin engage in expropriations.... If I remember correctly, Trotsky criticized both ... the revo. > > It is puzzling why Trotsky didn't use Stalin's > gangster past against him. It's possible he thought ...

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Author:	wrobert at uci.edu
Date:	Tue Jul 10 11:22:12 PDT 2007

174 [lbo-talk] Demonizing Stalin -- rank: 562

... socio-cultural and historical >trajectory of the Soviet Union. Demonizing Stalin as an individual then >exposes and demonizes the 'truth' of ... to saintify Lenin and the ‘October’ Revolution is to >demonize Stalin as the individual who drove the revolution off its rails ... I look forward to the day wen we can discuss Stalin with the same objectivity with which, say, we discuss Charlemagne ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jul 23 03:14:45 PDT 2003

175 Whence Stalin's popularity? -- rank: 562

... political analyst Markov goes to great > lengths to ascribe this > "Stalin nostalgia" to patriotism, desire for a > better history, national > pride ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Thu Mar 6 07:06:27 PST 2003

176 [lbo-talk] Demonizing Stalin -- rank: 562

... here > with his discussion of the hysterical cult of demonizing Stalin: > http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/03/25/009.html ... socio-cultural and historical trajectory of the Soviet Union. Demonizing Stalin as an individual then exposes and demonizes the 'truth' of ... to saintify Lenin and the October Revolution is to demonize Stalin as the individual who drove the revolution off its rails ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Wed Jul 23 03:59:57 PDT 2003

177 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 562

... me as an interesting contradiction with the common notion that Stalin was an all powerful dictator, that the war was carried ought in a smart manner, but Stalin was a big dummy. That can be resolved by either ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Nov 6 12:19:32 PST 2000

178 OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 562

> >A problem for anyone who believes in democracy: Stalin was broadly popular >(and still is among lots of Russians ... that rely on >psychopathology or "totalitarianism" evade that point. > >Doug Stalin is much more popular today than he ever was in ... closely with level of poverty. I think the reasoning is "Stalin brought the country out of the crisis in the Great Patriotic War. If we could beat Hitler under Stalin, then, under Stalin today, we could get our way out of a namby ... can just picture Pugliese running around the Moscow metro waving Stalin death figures around freaking out the babushky, frantically trying ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Jul 25 01:29:23 PDT 2003

179 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 562

A few last notes on Stalin as warlord: > >CB: What I am directly challenging is the ... gave them more time, which they misused andwasted, due to Stalin's crimes and errors. > >I agree that there was unbelievable ... not only did they >defeat the Nazis, but also overcame Stalin's mistakes. Quite right. And the Soviets had some great ... don't know. Seems more likely that some of what Stalin did was >militarily smart, even some of the specifics that ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Fri Nov 3 14:34:15 PST 2000

180 [lbo-talk] Dolan on Stalin -- rank: 562

Well Chris, in this case I have to disagree. Stalin didn't create an authoritarian regime - he merely realized it. Stalin's political regime and what is called Stalinism was created ... to and the ideology that party believed in and enacted. Stalin really created little or invented much, he was a functionary ...

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Author:	Peter Lavelle
Date:	Tue Jun 21 13:01:06 PDT 2005