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3406 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 156

In message <sa00059b.074 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes >This also applies to the non-aggression pact that the Soviets signed with >Germany before the war. It is only with hindsight, that we know the extent of >the Nazi horrors ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Nov 1 14:52:51 PST 2000

3407 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 156

G'day Justin'n'Charles, I'm over-quota now, so condemn myself to a day's silence ... >Yes, and no. People knew the Nazis were brutes, but not that they were going >to be mass murderers. (Even they probably didn't know it.) As for brutes, >there were a lot ...

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Author:	Rob Schaap
Date:	Wed Nov 1 10:54:09 PST 2000

3408 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 156

>>> rws at comedu.canberra.edu.au 11/01/00 12:17PM >>> G'day Charles, >This also applies to the non-aggression pact that the Soviets signed with >>Germany before the war. I'm not saying there weren't sensible reasons for the pact, but I reckon someone in the SU ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed Nov 1 09:56:26 PST 2000

3409 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 156

Yes, and no. People knew the Nazis were brutes, but not that they were going to be mass murderers. (Even they probably didn't know it.) As for brutes, there were a lot of them about, some closer to home. This was the time of Scottsboro and large-scale lynching in ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Wed Nov 1 09:46:58 PST 2000

3410 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 156

... from the >standpoint of >the 1930's. Don't think Stalin minded Franco too much at all really. He didn't ...

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Author:	Rob Schaap
Date:	Wed Nov 1 09:17:18 PST 2000

3411 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 156

... by the Soviets at the time! Until D-Day, all Stalin and Molotov could talk about with Churchill and Roosvelt was ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed Nov 1 08:08:53 PST 2000

3412 James Farrell and James Cain (was Re: Michael Moore Responds) -- rank: 156

... SWP, led by Max Schachtman, which, due to the Hitler-Stalin Pact and the invasion of Finland, wished to read the ...

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Author:	Dhlazare at aol.com
Date:	Sat May 30 06:57:05 PDT 1998

3413 Moore, Remy, & Fortune -- rank: 156

>Stern. It's too bad he's about the only one, though. Can Marxists be funny? >Lou, you're a Marxist and you're funny, but why has the Marxist left (at >least in the U.S.) been so fucking drab? > >Doug Peter Camejo had a great sense of humor ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Wed May 20 14:45:14 PDT 1998

3414 [lbo-talk] Oppression -- rank: 156

... labor, as Trotsky with his visions of militarizing labor and Stalin with his best attempt to put that into practice, revealed ...

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Author:	Somebody Somebody
Date:	Wed Mar 10 10:27:29 PST 2010

3415 [lbo-talk] Oppression -- rank: 156

'Stalin, despite being a demon figure for Trotskyists, was almost certainly the Soviet leader with the greatest level of popular support -- without which the Terror would not have been possible.' Mind you, if he was all that popular, he wouldn't have needed the terror...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Mar 10 13:15:50 PST 2010

3416 [lbo-talk] Oppression -- rank: 156

... labor, as Trotsky with his visions of militarizing labor and Stalin with his best attempt to put that into practice, revealed ...

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Author:	Matthias Wasser
Date:	Wed Mar 10 16:07:12 PST 2010

3417 [lbo-talk] Oppression -- rank: 156

... society is going to have to break with the post-Stalin era Soviet pattern, and provide stiffer penalties for low productivity ...

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Author:	Somebody Somebody
Date:	Thu Mar 11 09:00:37 PST 2010

3418 [lbo-talk] Oppression -- rank: 156

... was a postcolonial nation, but I suppose it did during Stalin in a roundabout way by providing the grain that the ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Mar 11 11:19:51 PST 2010

3419 "The Big One" -- rank: 156

... 16:42:12 EDT, you write: << Is it true that Stalin said "for some people, four walls are three too many ...

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Author:	Dhlazare
Date:	Tue May 19 13:32:22 PDT 1998

3420 RES: Kim Jong Il Thinks He's a God-King: Why Ignore It? -- rank: 156

... my craw to assign any of that debt to Marshall Stalin or > to the CPSU, however. With sane initial deployments, a ...

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Author:	Mark Jones
Date:	Sat May 27 05:35:48 PDT 2000