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466 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis a Stalinist -- rank: 496

... in a Mike Davis-style planned famine" Neither Trotsky nor Stalin could have substituted their own will for a democratically planned economy - the difference is that Trotsky knew that, and Stalin didn't. I am not sure that Stalin set out to starve people, either. The issue was not ... but under what conditions the Soviet Union industrialised. Bukharin (with Stalin's agreement at first) wanted to proceed at a 'snail ... transfer of resources to boost production. The difference was that Stalin, rather than take control of the situation let it slide ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Aug 13 08:25:26 PDT 2009

467 Dimitrov -- rank: 496

... rehabilitate Dimitrov, because he doesn't need to be rehabilitated. Stalin is another matter. ^^^^^^^ I've never been that hot on ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Feb 22 14:22:23 PST 2002

468 [lbo-talk] Stalin -- rank: 496

I like a couple of the comments on the article: #3 The East Village? Riddled with Reds! We must hide away in our beds, A statue, a banner, Each, centralized planner, You know how quickly dogma spreads! --Larry Eisenberg #4 What I want to see is a large bronze statue of ...

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Author:	joseph noonan
Date:	Tue Oct 28 10:08:51 PDT 2008

469 [lbo-talk] Stalin -- rank: 496

Shane answered to Chris: >> There was never a Soviet-German border, either before or after the > pact.  >>  >In legal fiction, no. In reality yes.  In legal fiction? Of what nationality. If you share the view, that Lithuania was occupied for more than 50 years by foreign powers from 1940 to 1991 ...

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Author:	moominek at aol.com
Date:	Tue Oct 21 00:45:59 PDT 2008

470 [lbo-talk] Stalin -- rank: 496

There is a 65-year old book, _We Cannot Escape History_, by the reporter John C. Whitaker, that gives a pretty full account of this. The Soviet proposal, according to Whitaker, was based on the fact that Czechoclovakia was in effect a bridge between western europe & the Soviet Union. The refusal ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Oct 19 08:56:43 PDT 2008

471 Russian vulgarity -- rank: 496

Stalin video and audio clips, http://www.stalin.hotmail.ru/stalin_eng.htm . http://www.stalin.hotmail.ru/stalin_doklad.mpg Some great scenes of Stalin at the opera in Yugoslav film based on Wilhelm ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Nov 15 12:12:11 PST 2002

472 Guardian article -- rank: 496

... wife swapped the slums of Manchester for the paradise of Stalin's Moscow. My parents rai

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Author:	John Norem
Date:	Sun Sep 1 12:39:34 PDT 2002

473 [lbo-talk] The Liberal Faith and its Enemy -- rank: 496

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Ian Buruma was quoted in the New York Review of Each Other's Books as saying: > This is where the neoconservatives and old leftists, such as Paul > Berman, are different. Their radical vision of an American state, filled > with revolutionary élan and military steel, battling heroically ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue Apr 15 07:23:54 PDT 2003

474 [lbo-talk] The Liberal Faith and its Enemy -- rank: 496

<< To simplify, but not too much, there was no liberalism in the 30s. The only things on the left side of the spectrum in the 30s were progressivism, trotskyism and communism. >> "Not too much" apparently means eliding any mention of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his administration. To simplify, but not ...

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Author:	Gregory Geboski
Date:	Tue Apr 15 08:27:55 PDT 2003

475 [lbo-talk] dustup (José Luis Galbe Loshuertos) -- rank: 496

Marv asks: > Who was the one favouring Stalin? :) Don't get me started... :) Stalin, Capitán, a quien Changó proteja y a quien resguarde Ochún ... betún, el blanco, de ojos verdes y barbas de azafrán. Stalin, Capitán. Tiembla Europa en su mapa de piedra y de ... el Bien Hoy bajo cuatro metros de amargo sueño están... Stalin, Capitán. Pero el futuro afinca, levanta su ilusión allá en ... detendrán, allá en tu helado cielo de llama y explosión, Stalin, Capitán. El jarro de magnolias, el floreal corazón de Buda ...

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Author:	Julio Huato
Date:	Wed Jul 23 04:13:16 PDT 2008

476 [lbo-talk] The Times: Stalin and Tsar Nicholas II neck and neck for title of ... -- rank: 496

Speaking of which, I remember there was much OUTRAGE! in Russia when the Ukrainian show appropriated several Russians as famous Ukrainians. I betcha there is similar OUTRAGE! in Georgia over this. --- On Wed, 7/16/08, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > I think this is actually an adaptation of ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Jul 15 23:37:49 PDT 2008

477 [lbo-talk] Re: death tolls, stalin and demonology -- rank: 496

"20 million dead according to Conquest, 35 million according to Pipes, 50 million according to Solzhenitsyn, and indeed 10-15 million according to Medvedev). That does not make Stalinism OK." let's not forget the expert on death tolls who predates all those numerologists...any scholars here know the source ...

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Author:	frank scott
Date:	Mon Apr 21 18:46:14 PDT 2003

478 [lbo-talk] Stalin exonerated! Khrushchev lied!! -- rank: 496

I don't think there's much doubt anymore that Beria was a reformer. He was the one who started to shut down the Gulag system, not Khrushchev. I don't see why it would be an odd notion. The idea is not incompatible with Beria's other notorious qualities. --- andie ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jan 30 00:08:24 PST 2008

479 [lbo-talk] Stalin exonerated! Khrushchev lied!! -- rank: 496

If anyone here has actually read Grover Furr, Stalinist muppet, is there anything at all to his argumentation, or is it as wacky as it sounds? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Jan 29 07:20:29 PST 2008

480 Stalingrad '03: The battle over a name -- rank: 496

Toronto Star February 1, 2003 Stalingrad '03: The battle over a name 'Volgograd' insults veterans of epic WWII siege But others fear 'glorification' of hated dictator Michael Mainville, SPECIAL TO THE STAR This southern Russian city, renowned as the site of the greatest battle of World War II, is now at ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Sun Feb 2 01:12:25 PST 2003