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1891 Should we celebrate the fall of the Soviet Union -- rank: 156

... and keep it non-industrial according to treaties concluded by Stalin and the West. Etc., etc., etc. The main thing that ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Tue Jul 14 06:58:41 PDT 1998

1892 [lbo-talk] Lieven on Putin's Russia -- rank: 156

... too weak for those "enlightened" liberals who, just as under Stalin et. al., tell the "suffering masses" that its all for ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Fri Jul 23 08:54:33 PDT 2004

1893 [lbo-talk] The selling-out of Tasmania -- rank: 156

Jim Bacon's mate, the current Premier of Tasmania, has been spitting chips about this article today. But who cares what that slug thinks. Its sad to see that old comrade Albert Langer getting sucked into the Bacon myth though. Of course Langer is another old Maoist, like Bacon. But all ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Fri Jul 23 08:23:53 PDT 2004

1894 [lbo-talk] Russias Islamic Face -- rank: 156

Very good overview article IMHO. Russia Profile May 15, 2006 Russia’s Islamic Face Two Areas, Each With Its Own Local Characteristics By Rafik Mukhametshin Rafik Mukhametshin is a professor of political science and deputy head of the Islamic Studies department at the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences. At first glance, the ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue May 16 08:55:56 PDT 2006

1895 Should we celebrate the fall of the Soviet Union -- rank: 156

... 13 Jul 1998, Louis Proyect wrote: > I don't think Stalin ever did anything in his > satellite states that begins to ...

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Author:	Dennis R Redmond
Date:	Mon Jul 13 16:53:09 PDT 1998

1896 [lbo-talk] Editor of Russian Forbes murdered -- rank: 156

--- joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net> wrote: > Yeah, that's impressive. > The New Yorker August 6, 2001 [for personal use only] LETTER FROM MOSCOW DEEP IN THE WOODS Solzhenitsyn, a new book, and the new Russia. by DAVID REMNICK ............ When the convoy finally arrived in Moscow, Boris Yeltsin, who had ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Jul 15 01:31:12 PDT 2004

1897 Think Big (was Re: Downturn (?!) in Pharmaceutical Stocks) -- rank: 156

> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 23:00:11 -0400 > From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > Subject: Re: Downturn in Pharmaceutical Stocks <...> > Until now, making patented drugs has been one the most profitable legal industries, if not the most profitable, on earth. I doubt that's going to change profoundly ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Mon Jun 7 01:52:53 PDT 1999

1898 Comparing Clinton regime to Hitler regime -- rank: 156

>>> Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> 06/05/99 09:11AM >>> *Snort* *Giggle* *Chortle*. I had written: > >I no longer find it funny... I withdraw my claim. It *is* funny--in a sick, perverted, demented, and despairing kind of way... (((((((((((((((((((((( Chas.: Well, make up your mind. (((((((((((((((((( Mao decides ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Jun 7 08:03:52 PDT 1999

1899 [lbo-talk] more Churchill/Holocaust -- rank: 156

> > Fatigue is probably the best word for it. Can you > imagine anyone but a raving lunatic telling someone > who > is jewish directly to their face that "yes, the > holocaust was terrible but WWII drew the US much > more into > world affairs and allowed for the rebuilding and > modernizing of Europe ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Thu May 18 10:05:28 PDT 2006

1900 Should we celebrate the fall of the Soviet Union -- rank: 156

Brad, What was so terrible about the Tito regime? Yes, he did not allow a democratic opposition. Yes, he jailed dissidents and critics, especially during periods of nationalist upheaval (hey, there was nothing to fear from on that front now, was there!?). One can also criticize the economic outcomes of the ...

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Author:	Rosser Jr, John Barkley
Date:	Mon Jul 13 12:39:24 PDT 1998

1901 [lbo-talk] George Will on Thomas Frank -- rank: 156

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > WS: It is scary to agree with George F. Will but he might be up to > something. Populism is the fundamental article of faith of the post New > Deal left - but that article of faith is contradicted by empirical > evidence. "The masses" tend to be reactionary, not progressive ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Thu Jul 8 08:47:24 PDT 2004

1902 [lbo-talk] "I never saw anything like this." -- rank: 156

... that long. Nobody can. Chris (who keeps reminding people that Stalin was popular. Maybe other dictators too...) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Jul 8 06:30:45 PDT 2004

1903 [lbo-talk] more Churchill/Holocaust -- rank: 156

On 18 May 2006 at 10:05, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Even leaving the Holocaust and its 12 million victims > (including the Red Army POWs, Communists, homosexuals, > Roma, _and_ Jews), who on earth would say that WWII > with its remaining, say 40 million dead, was "all for > the best"? Also conisdering that ...

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Author:	jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
Date:	Thu May 18 13:08:24 PDT 2006

1904 [lbo-talk] Erschlossenheit, noch einmal -- rank: 156

... experienced by them) of the empirically existing human beings Hitler, Stalin, and Ghandi. --- Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote: > > I ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri May 19 13:33:40 PDT 2006

1905 [lbo-talk] This is WAR, sons! -- rank: 156

... of virulently anti-Communist Russians who actually live in Russia. Stalin has a 35-40% posthumous approval rating here. ______________

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jul 7 08:11:46 PDT 2004