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511 [lbo-talk] Stalin Wanted John Wayne Axed -- rank: 496

> There's a decades-old Wayne speech that's been making the rounds for > quite a few years now, in which a drunken Duke, speaking to a group of > R.O.T.C. recruits, offers up a sexist slam at Columbia University, > grumbles about the general state of things (and ...

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Author:	Dennis Perrin
Date:	Wed Jul 30 06:21:31 PDT 2003

512 [lbo-talk] Stalin Wanted John Wayne Axed -- rank: 496

Book tells how John Wayne survived Soviet assassination Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow Thursday July 31 2003 The Guardian   http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,2763,1010266,00.html        

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Jul 31 23:32:42 PDT 2003

513 [lbo-talk] Stalin's image, was: Re: great moments in the history of ... -- rank: 496

Reading about Baku in the early part of the century, the place seems hellish. 50% of the world's oil production in 1905 was in Baku -- the Rothschilds were there, the Nobels were there in enormous palaces. (The Bolsheviks seem to have been getting money from both, possibly from donations, possibly ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Jul 10 12:35:38 PDT 2007

514 [lbo-talk] Stalin's image, was: Re: great moments in the history of ... -- rank: 496

Great post Chris! I am off to Baku in a week or so to make a documentary on the first of three segments related to the history of oil and gas. Baku back then was the like Saudi and today's Russia combined in oil production. The peasant workers, the tycoons ...

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Author:	Peter Lavelle
Date:	Tue Jul 10 10:41:25 PDT 2007

515 [lbo-talk] Question on Stalin's daughter's memoirs -- rank: 496

Hot on the heels of reading Kaganovich's memoirs, I've been looking around for those of Svetlana Allilueva, nee Stalina, but can't find them anywhere in Moscow. Anybody read them? (I know they've been published in English.) Any impressions? An acquaintance of mine knew her a bit at ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Jan 7 13:23:19 PST 2007

516 Whence Stalin's popularity? -- rank: 496

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, ChrisD(RJ) wrote: > Everybody hates Gorbachev though.They guy really was an incredible > loser. But you like him, right? So why does everyone hate so much? Because they blame him for the break-up of the Soviet Union? Isn't that unfair, since he wasn't ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Fri Mar 7 02:07:45 PST 2003

517 happy sodomy day, from J Stalin -- rank: 496

>THE PRIDELETS FILES for March 7 > On this day in 1934, Article 121 bans male sodomy in all the >republics of the USSR, punishing consenting same-sex activity among >men with "deprivation of freedom" for up to five years, if caught.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 7 19:31:34 PST 2003

518 Whence Stalin's popularity? -- rank: 496

Does Medvedev have any standing with the Soviet public? I always liked him. Of the dissidents, he was one of the few that didn't cave in to the right. He books, especially Let History Judge, are very fine. jks --- Judging by the interviews and op-eds he publishes occasionally in ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Tue Mar 11 22:34:43 PST 2003

519 Whence Stalin's popularity? -- rank: 496

--- "ChrisD(RJ)" <chrisd at russiajournal.com> wrote: > > Does Medvedev have any standing with the Soviet > public? I always liked him. Of the dissidents, he > was > one of the few that didn't cave in to the right. He > books, especially Let History Judge, are very fine. > jks > --- > Judging by the ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed Mar 12 06:55:37 PST 2003

520 Whence Stalin's popularity? -- rank: 496

I knew that Solzhenitsyn had squandered his capital, and anyway had long ago wandered offinto Slavophil lunacy. It's encouraging about Medvedev. Is he still a socialist? At the end od the perestroika period he was actually appointed to a CC post in the CPSU, if I recall correctly. What are ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Wed Mar 12 22:53:36 PST 2003

521 Whence Stalin's popularity? -- rank: 496

Re: Roy Medvedev, just out in pb. Post-Soviet Russia: A Journey through the Yeltsin Era by Roy Medvedev trans. George Shriver | Columbia, 394 pp, £24.00 Zagadka Putina by Roy Medvedev | Prava cheloveka, 93 pp, US $8.00 <URL: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n15/davi01_.html > -- Michael Pugliese ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Mar 13 07:44:40 PST 2003

522 Whence Stalin's popularity? (last post for day) -- rank: 496

On the subject of attitudes toward socialism in the FSU, these are results from a poll taken in the Russian Caucasus republic of Dagestan: Question: On what principles should the Dagestani state be built -- those of Islam and Shariah (Islamic law), those of Western democracies, or those of socialism? The breakdown ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Tue Mar 18 06:50:45 PST 2003

523 [lbo-talk] Ukraine: The Forgotten Holocaust -- rank: 496

... this tragic event in Ukrainian History. They also glorify Joseph Stalin as a hero of the people. These pages also state how Joseph Stalin's reputation is allegedly malligned by anti-communist Ukrainians who ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Nov 16 23:53:35 PST 2003

524 [lbo-talk] Cross in memory of Stalin repression victims -- rank: 496

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Karl Liebknecht, and Ferdinand Lassalle, I think. I don't remember the order. On 8/8/07, Jim Straub <rustbeltjacobin at gmail.com> wrote: > Oh totally. In fact since that building is located between the > Chinatown Bus depot (how I usually come in or out of nyc ...

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Author:	Brad Kerr
Date:	Wed Aug 8 09:36:13 PDT 2007

525 [lbo-talk] Cross in memory of Stalin repression victims -- rank: 496

Oh totally. In fact since that building is located between the Chinatown Bus depot (how I usually come in or out of nyc) and the subway, I make a point of looking at the busts every time I'm in NYC. If I remember right, it's Marx and three others ...

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Author:	Jim Straub
Date:	Wed Aug 8 08:50:25 PDT 2007