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181 [lbo-talk] Stalin -- rank: 541

... James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> > Subject: [lbo-talk] Stalin > To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org > Date: Tuesday, October ... quotes a Cooper Union spokesperson saying > "Picasso's drawing of Stalin was viewed as > unflattering and led to his expulsion from ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Oct 28 04:14:37 PDT 2008

182 [lbo-talk] Stalin -- rank: 541

Speaking of Stalin, On "Morning Joe" today, Spike Lee said that Joe Biden ... a joke ?". Lee said next they will be calling Barry Stalin. Charles This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Oct 28 08:07:02 PDT 2008

183 [lbo-talk] Re: stalin worship -- rank: 541

... Tsars who don't break heads are remembered as losers. --- Stalin had Eisenstein produce an adultory film about Ivan the Terrible ... Ivan repenting, in the (insane) hope that it would cause Stalin to do the same. ===== Nu, zayats, pogodi! ____________________

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Jan 11 09:06:32 PST 2005

184 [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 541

... I am sure I still have > somewhere, called The Essential Stalin, in which > Franklin defends the purge trials of the 30s, denies > or justifies the Stalin terror, and generally > whitewashes the evil sonofabitch and his crimes ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Dec 4 09:29:07 PST 2005

185 [lbo-talk] Re: stalin worship -- rank: 541

... in large part. Credit Zhukov, credit Chuikov, credit Rossokovsky, etc. Stalin's appalling idiocy, first in purging the Red Army down ... need I go on? The Soviets won the war despite Stalin, not because of him. --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Jan 11 12:46:12 PST 2005

186 [lbo-talk] Stalin Was Pro-Zionist -- rank: 541

Interesting little tidbit from history. Stalin for a short time was pro-Zionist thinking the state ...

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Author:	Michael Givel
Date:	Sun Dec 17 13:29:34 PST 2006

187 [lbo-talk] Stalin exonerated! Khrushchev lied!! -- rank: 541

... and other members of the "National Board" all along with Stalin don't have the same reputation as Stalin ? I think there actually was a collective leadership through all ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Jan 29 14:06:40 PST 2008

188 [lbo-talk] Anybody interested in Roy Medvedev? -- rank: 541

Chris Doss wrote: > Medvedev seems to write like a book a month. I just > picked up his latest, "Sotsializm v Rossii?" > (Socialism in Russia), which is about, well, socialism > in Russia. He's a joy to translate, so I decided to > translate some parts of it into English -- if I don ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 23 14:55:15 PST 2006

189 [lbo-talk] Exocist to faithful: Stalin and Hitler possessed by the Devil... -- rank: 541

Adolf Hitler and Russian leader Stalin were possessed by the Devil, the Vatican's chief exorcist ... you have to do is think about what Hitler - and Stalin did. Almost certainly they were possessed by the Devil. "You ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Tue Aug 29 19:56:45 PDT 2006

190 [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 541

... examples of Marx's dialectics. From that point of view, Stalin was a democrat at one point of historical development, and ... just as tyrannical and repressive as any dictatorship. So, the Stalin era may well have been based on a large scale ...

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Author:	Julian Gollop
Date:	Mon May 8 08:54:27 PDT 2006

191 [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 541

On 5/8/06, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote: > Chris quoted: > > "When we talk about the repressions, we avoid looking > at one obvious, but unpleasant, fact. The repressions > of 1937-38 to a great extent were created not by state > totalitarianism, but by a profound _democracy_. But > not a ...

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Author:	Jerry Monaco
Date:	Mon May 8 11:27:58 PDT 2006

192 Comparing the Clinton regime to the Stalin regime -- rank: 541

... baiting (as can >the attempt, not quoted) to treat Lenin, Stalin, and Mao as but >separate names for the same substance. > >Carrol I gladly distinguish Lenin from Stalin and Mao, but still condemn Lenin for the unthinkable violence ...

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Author:	Jacob Segal
Date:	Thu Jun 10 12:05:10 PDT 1999

193 [lbo-talk] Mr Pugliese learns to Bowl a Googlie. Pt 2. -- rank: 541

... It has been claimed that Soviet agriculture was destroyed by Stalin, using Lysenko's incorrect theories. Leaving aside the issue of ... reasonable years that could be in any way attributable to Stalin's "terrible influence" : There does not appear to be the relative impoverishment of supply the anti-Stalin propagandists complain of. Subsequent to Stalin's death even, the supply from the farm was not ...

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Author:	Hari Kumar
Date:	Sun Feb 15 07:33:08 PST 2004

194 [lbo-talk] Hamas "a project of Shin Bet" (was: Hezbollah vs IDF) -- rank: 541

... com> wrote: If many Russians have a positive attitude towards Stalin's legacy, or if many Palestinians harbor anti-semitic sentiments ... is worth understanding, but not supporting or justifying. -- Seriously, the Stalin period is a VERY multifaceted one. It is very easy to make an argument that Stalin was a net benefactor to the country, this argument is ... the issue. Note that for a person to appraise the Stalin era as being a net positive does NOT imply endorsement of all Stalin's methods. The opinion polls usually run something like: Stalin was very good for the country 20% Stalin was ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Oct 17 10:42:04 PDT 2006

195 [lbo-talk] Back to the USSR -- rank: 541

James: Chris Doss objects to being called an apologist of Stalin, but I am at a loss to understand where he differs in outlook from Stalin, or his heirs. So do tell, Chris, what exactly would have been your differences with Stalin, or Brezhnev, or are you, as charged, and unalloyed fan ... that the February Revo was a promising start. Brezhnev and Stalin are two whole different balls of wax. Well, forced collectivization ... of themselves at all; the state did it. That said, Stalin, Brezhnev etc. were responsible for the good aspects of the ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Feb 6 04:08:07 PST 2004