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436 [lbo-talk] Stalin lives by Roy Medvedev -- rank: 496

Chris D wrote: Medvedev has a short piece in a recent issue of Argumenty i Fakty (on the war, not surprisingly given the time of year) I can translate if anybody wants it. ************************** If it's not too much trouble, I think it would be useful. I've always found Roy ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Wed May 4 13:30:03 PDT 2005

437 [lbo-talk] MORE ALIVE THAN MANY OF THE LIVING (Stalin) -- rank: 496

I'm hoping that Prokofiev overtakes him the statue contest. Best, Mike B) ****************************************************************** http://profiles.yahoo.com/swillsqueal __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Sun Mar 6 20:49:36 PST 2005

438 [lbo-talk] Edmund Wilson on Stalin -- rank: 496

Joanna wrote: > It did produce the witch trials, Mcarthyism, internment camps, > Guantanamo, Jim Crow, and genocide. After the Soviets took power, the main enemy in Russia turned out to be "economic backwardness" in the conditions of a fortress "besieged" by the imperialist powers. The Chinese revolution was led by a peasant ...

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Author:	Julio Huato
Date:	Sun Dec 11 17:02:51 PST 2011

439 [lbo-talk] Edmund Wilson on Stalin -- rank: 496

On Dec 11, 2011, at 2:34 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > It did produce the witch trials, Mcarthyism, internment camps, Guantanamo, Jim Crow, and genocide. But aside from that, we're really friendly, don't you think?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 11 11:38:51 PST 2011

440 Exaggerating the Stalin Terror -- rank: 496

Earlier, when I was scanning the subject lines in lbo-digest #3715, I was thinking this was gonna be Charles Brown! On the Ukranian famine I remember back in the mid-80's, Alex Cockburn was citing a piece by Jeff Coplon in the Village Voice, in his column in The ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Dec 8 09:31:34 PST 2000

441 A Stooge Looking for a Stalin -- rank: 496

>...Koreans in the South are working hard to end the nearly 50 years of >hostility. Many Koreans in the North would like to work hard to end >the nearly 50 years of hostility. But if they say that perhaps the >social, economic, and political system established by Kim Il Sung ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Mon May 22 10:54:49 PDT 2000

442 Getting beyond DeLong's Stalin-baiting & Remembering Phil Ochs -- rank: 496

To readers of LBO: For those who would like to get beyond Brad DeLong's hysterical ravings about North Korea, please explore the website of Nautilus International (http://www.nautilus.org/). Nautilus is an NGO based in Berkeley that publishes a daily (free) update on security issues involving Northeast Asia. It ...

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Author:	TRox51 at aol.com
Date:	Tue May 23 14:28:00 PDT 2000

443 Getting beyond DeLong's Stalin-baiting & Remembering Phil Ochs -- rank: 496

>Projects like this, not DeLong's dehumanization and demonization of >North Korea, > >Tim Shorrock That's a lie. I demonize the leaders of North Korea, not the people of North Korea. Brad DeLong

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Tue May 23 17:07:52 PDT 2000

444 Getting beyond DeLong's Stalin-baiting & Remembering Phil Ochs -- rank: 496

TRox51 at aol.com wrote: > So when he does, reach back to 1966 and sing to yourself Phil Ochs' famous line from his blistering polemic against Cold War liberalism: 'When it comes to times like Korea/There's no one more red, white and blue/So love me, love me, love ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue May 23 18:13:23 PDT 2000

445 Alexandre on Stalin, a Query, was Re: Kim Jong Il ... -- rank: 496

Alexandre Fenelon wrote: > -- > I have to confess that the _Age of Extremes_ *annoyed* me. . . . I had trouble reading this post, which is highly interesting, because the marks between Alexandre's remarks and the post(s) he is responding to are quite unclear. It turns reading it into sort of a cryptanalytic ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sat May 27 11:28:01 PDT 2000

446 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 496

... the world from the Nazis, but it did so despite Stalin, not because of him. Whether on not we can explain the Stalin-Hitler pact as a desperate exercise in realpolitik--a rather plausible claim, since Stalin had spent the previous years and months attempting to get ... Hitler with France and Britain--we must certainly agree that Stalin blew the chanvce he had to prepare in many ways ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Nov 3 07:26:47 PST 2000

447 [lbo-talk] The Stalin Applause Index -- rank: 496

Oh, God, this is good. From my favorite blogger: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/matt-taibbi/blogs/TaibbiData_May2010/181073/83512 Joanna

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Wed Jul 14 16:25:59 PDT 2010

448 Hail the Hitler-Stalin pact! -- rank: 496

Charles Brown wrote: > Soviet-German non-Agression Pact is and was eminently supportable. >It helped saved the world from Nazism. Wow. You don't see this argument made every day. Reading it is a bit like walking out the door and seeing a mastodon dining on a dodo. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 14 13:07:49 PST 2000

449 Hail the Hitler-Stalin pact! -- rank: 496

The person who occupied the office next to me with a militarily trained Soviet specialist. He would not talk to me for a year after the Soviets occupied Afghanistan -- somehow I was responsible for all the Soviet atrocities around the world. Despite his anti-Soviet perspective, he was fully convinced that ...

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Author:	Michael Perelman
Date:	Tue Nov 14 13:17:33 PST 2000

450 Hail the Hitler-Stalin pact! -- rank: 496

Doug Henwood wrote: > Charles Brown wrote: > > > Soviet-German non-Agression Pact is and was eminently supportable. > >It helped saved the world from Nazism. > > Wow. You don't see this argument made every day. Reading it is a bit > like walking out the door and seeing a mastodon dining on a dodo ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue Nov 14 13:54:02 PST 2000