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46 [lbo-talk] Gorbachev interview -- rank: 641

... fighting. On the other hand, we put up monuments to Stalin who was a commissar of the Revolutionary Military Council precisely ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun May 1 08:02:25 PDT 2005

47 Whence Stalin's popularity? -- rank: 641

... us who love in the US, but I suspect that Stalin nostalgia derives from two different sources: one source being the ... return to a more egalitarian society. Many of today's Stalin fans do seem to be "browns" who admire him for ... for a lot of people in Russia, the nostalgia for Stalin represents a protest of the politics of the last decade ... form of capitalism. No doubt, many Russians are nostalgic for Stalin on both grounds. Jim F. --- You're absolutely right on all counts. Stalin is not like Hitler. Hitler led his country on a ... of destruction and was crushed. Whatever one thinks of him, Stalin thrashed the Nazis, built the Soviet state, which, aft

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Date:	Thu Mar 6 23:57:35 PST 2003

48 [lbo-talk] Stalin Wanted John Wayne Axed -- rank: 641

... this in print/Internet. Last night, Russia TV reported that Stalin wanted John Wayne to be axed like Trotsky. Apparently two ... never carried out." * * * "Dimitrov! Get in here immediately!" "Yes Comrade Stalin?" "I want John Wayne killed." "John Wayne? You mean the ... Yes, yes. That John Wayne." "May I ask why, Comrade Stalin?" "Roy Rogers." "Sorry?" "Roy Rogers. I love Roy Rogers. 'The ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 29 06:10:45 PDT 2003

49 [lbo-talk] Dolan on Stalin -- rank: 641

... or Khrushchev's memoirs for that matter... they all thought Stalin was god. It was a universal psychosis. If you go ... so of Russians over the age of 70 still think Stalin was God. The guy carrying Stalin's boombox was OG Scarface Khrushchev. :) Here's Sergo Beria ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Jun 21 15:45:40 PDT 2005

50 [lbo-talk] Stalin the Nutjob -- rank: 641

... point, but I have a hard time not thinking that Stalin had a > few Kangaroos loose on the top paddock, even ... s argument in a nutshell is that the inescapability of Stalin's madness is based on two completely wrong suppositions that ... informed about every aspect of everyday life; and (2) that Stalin exercised total c

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Date:	Thu Jul 24 10:48:51 PDT 2003

51 [lbo-talk] Book Recommendation: The Young Stalin -- rank: 641

... I picked up S.S. Montefiore's new book on Stalin's >youth, "The Young Stalin," this afternoon. It is >really friggin' interesting. Montefiore has gone ... piles and piles of memoirs written by people >who knew Stalin in his youth, including -- get this -- >he located Stalin's mother's memoirs, written at the >age of 80 ... of that time period >are great. I had known that Stalin came from a >background of pervasive violence, but hadn't ...

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52 [lbo-talk] Stalin Again (Was Re: OFFLIST: ) -- rank: 641

... other words, about a third of the population died during Stalin's reign. Under Stalin, the population grew. No one denies this. Either Medvedev's ... are way off, the Hitler figure is way off, or Stalin has some kind of secret Soviet cloning program. You decide ... to I have to declare in black and white that Stalin was a mass murderer before you accept that I think ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Jul 25 01:00:41 PDT 2003

53 Anti-Zionism Is Racism -- rank: 641

I'm no big fan of Stalin, and some of my socialist relatives became liberal democrats because ... of Leninism, reprinted in Problems of Leninism). Mat "The Essential Stalin, " edited by H. Bruce Franklin, Doubleday/Anchor, 1972. Introduction to "The Essential Stalin: Major Theoretical ... Introduction to The Essential Stalin: Major Theoretical Writings, 1905-52 by Bruce Franklin (Garden City ... www.owu.edu/~jawaldma/stalin1.html - 86k Another view of Stalin ... The war against the kulak; The essential rôle of the most oppressed masses. ... Dizzy with success': Stalin corrects; Rectify and consolidate; Right opportunism rears ... Description: An ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Jul 29 22:59:10 PDT 2001

54 Stalin and the Martians -- rank: 641

God I love Pravda. pravda.ru November 19, 2002 Stalin's UFOs Joseph Stalin insisted that the USSR outpace America with its space program ... really have crashed. However, the Soviet leadership headed by Joseph Stalin didn't believe Romay's lies at all. The USSR ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 20 23:46:20 PST 2002

55 [lbo-talk] Peroration -- rank: 641

... divisions to new conquests in Asia and Africa. But Joseph Stalin

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri May 9 07:38:32 PDT 2003

56 Zyuganov (continued from Socialist Review) -- rank: 641

<URL: http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj66/crouch.htm > >From the mid-30s onwards Russian history reappeared as a sequence of magnificent deeds performed by Russia's national heroes--the princes of Kiev, the tsars of Moscow, the dignitaries of the church, the generals and admirals of the empire. Symbols ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Dec 27 10:31:58 PST 2002

57 [lbo-talk] Town in Russia calls for Stalin rehabilitation -- rank: 641

... 15, 2005. Issue 3147. Page 3. An Appeal to Rehabilitate Stalin By Oksana Yablokova Staff Writer Members of the Oryol city ... have appealed to the country's leaders to rehabilitate Josef Stalin, put up monuments to the Soviet dictator and rename city ... the signatories argued that it had never been proved that Stalin was responsible for the deaths of millions of people during ... of repression. The appeal called for a re-evaluation of Stalin's historical role, mainly over his part in the defeat ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Apr 15 08:49:15 PDT 2005

58 [lbo-talk] Blair with Stalin was Re: "Law Student With a History of Taking Left ... -- rank: 641

... the debate over whether, for want of a better description, Stalin was mad or not. But the thing is, I don ... just got switched off. What I could say is that Stalin's acts are rational, but are organised according to a ...

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Author:	Simon Huxtable
Date:	Thu Jul 24 06:48:00 PDT 2003

59 [lbo-talk] Stalin Archives -- rank: 641

... vast collections of the defunct Soviet state. In "Inside the Stalin Archives," he gives us an account of his experience over ...

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Author:	John E. Norem
Date:	Tue Dec 2 10:56:05 PST 2008

60 Anti-Zionism Is Racism -- rank: 641

... survived the murder of 27,000 Allied POW's by Stalin. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/6764/intro.html A ... have been ruined. We now know that during the war, Stalin actually killed more of his own people than Hitler killed ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Aug 1 04:07:15 PDT 2001