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571 Comparing the Clinton regime to the Stalin regime -- rank: 496

Speaking of the secrect police, here my view of its relationship to revolution. Contrary to misinterpretation in some American quarters, Mao never advocated terror, although, as Napoleon would observe: "there is a general rule that there can be no revolution without terror." As sad a commentary as that fatalistic observation is ...

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Author:	Henry C.K. Liu
Date:	Thu Jun 10 12:37:06 PDT 1999

572 [lbo-talk] Family, dads, Stalin/Ilya Erenburg -- rank: 496

Chris Doss wrote: >Did they fall on deaf ears? He's addressing a specific >audience -- American Jews. How much assistance did US >Jews give to Britain and the USSR? > Ah. You touch a very sore point here. American Jews by a large did not give enough of a shit about their ...

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Author:	joanna
Date:	Mon Jun 5 20:23:10 PDT 2006

573 [lbo-talk] Family, dads, Stalin/Ilya Erenburg -- rank: 496

--- Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote: > All during the winter `41-42, the Germans were > pinned down along a > front running from a few miles north of Murmansk > down to just outside > of Rostov. (How long is this? More than 1500 miles?) I spent a week last year in ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Jun 5 06:45:02 PDT 2006

574 [lbo-talk] Family, dads, Stalin/Ilya Erenburg -- rank: 496

Kill, by Ilya Ehrenburg, June 24, 1942...If you have not killed a German today, your day has been wasted.... CD ------------ Great. I am laughing. I mean, why hold back Ilya, tell us how you really feel. (I am sure the Russians were feeling pretty fucking desparate) All during the winter ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun Jun 4 11:02:18 PDT 2006

575 [lbo-talk] Family, dads, Stalin/Ilya Ehrenburg -- rank: 496

Correction: in my translation, "If you leave a German alive, he will hang a Russian man or degrade a German woman" should be "If you leave a German alive, he will hang a Russian man or degrade a Russian woman." Nu, zayats, pogodi! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Jun 3 02:43:52 PDT 2006

576 [lbo-talk] Family, dads, Stalin/Ilya Ehrenburg -- rank: 496

--- Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote: > > The other thing that would help make these war > accounts more real is a > brief description of the location---if you've been > there or know > it. From the first volume of Carell, I imagine > Russia to look like the > US midwest, mostly ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Jun 3 02:26:14 PDT 2006

577 [lbo-talk] Family, dads, Stalin/Ilya Ehrenburg -- rank: 496

a collection of the essays of the most popular Soviet WWII correspodent, Ilya Ehrenburg, has just been published. Many of these articles haven't been reprinted in 60 years, and I'm sure very, very few ever appeared in English. They're very short -- I'm going to translate them and ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Fri Jun 2 22:49:37 PDT 2006

578 Comparing the Clinton regime to the Stalin regime -- rank: 496

>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 06/10/99 03:08PM >>> Charles Brown wrote: >Charles: Interesting your mention of the concept of "secret police" . I >was thinking recently about this standard concept from the Cold War era. >Communist countries have secret police and capitalist countries don't , is >the notion ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Jun 10 12:40:43 PDT 1999

579 [lbo-talk] Sweezy, Stalin, etc. -- rank: 496

Just how is the history of autarkic-military accumulation in 1917-1953 Russia relevant to the world of multinational capitalism? And why should autarkic-military societies be the last word on socialism? -- DRR ^^^^ Actually, they were the first word on socialism. The current configuration of imperialism is shaped indirectly by the ...

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Author:	BrownBingb at aol.com
Date:	Tue Mar 2 20:21:25 PST 2004

580 Comparing the Clinton regime to the Stalin regime -- rank: 496

Doug Henwood wrote: > Charles Brown wrote: > > Oh come now Charles. I'm not likely to get arrested for publishing LBO, and > you're not likely to get arrested for anything you post to this list. We > may get ignored, harassed, whatever, but we do have considerable freedom of > speech. That was ...

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Author:	Henry C.K. Liu
Date:	Thu Jun 10 12:56:03 PDT 1999

581 Comparing the Clinton regime to the Stalin regime -- rank: 496

Doug wrote: >Oh come now Charles. I'm not likely to get arrested for publishing LBO, and >you're not likely to get arrested for anything you post to this list. We >may get ignored, harassed, whatever, but we do have considerable freedom of >speech. That was not true of the ...

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Author:	Fabian Balardini
Date:	Thu Jun 10 12:57:35 PDT 1999

582 [lbo-talk] Re: nader, kucinich, and stalin -- rank: 496

"...About 800,000 loyal Bolsheviks were killed by the Stalinists in '37 and '38. Mensheviks would not have done that..." oh dear...all hope is lost. fs

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Author:	frank scott
Date:	Tue May 4 09:52:37 PDT 2004

583 [lbo-talk] Stalin: now at 2491 and the hits keep coming -- rank: 496

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Someone, probably a liberal, mentions the >Mensheviks... cue to commercial for Stolichnaya, I stopped buying it once the label no longer said "Made in the USSR." >featuring a track by Tatu. Now that I can get behind. As I said when I first responded to Luke, I didn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 17:32:03 PDT 2004

584 Comparing the Clinton regime to the Stalin regime -- rank: 496

Doug Henwood wrote: > Brett Knowlton wrote: > > >The thrust of Jabob's post was not to say that Kerensky would have brought > >utopia to Russia, but that the communist regimes in Russia and China should > >not be viewed as examples of the type of society we are trying to achieve - > "The views ...

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Author:	Henry C.K. Liu
Date:	Thu Jun 10 13:07:25 PDT 1999

585 Comparing the Clinton regime to the Stalin regime -- rank: 496

Fabian Balardini wrote: >I rather live in a society where I don't have 100% "freedom of speech" but >my family and I are guaranteed a job, a source of income, health coverage >and even food, like in Cuba ( this is a bad example because freedom of >press is relatively higher ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 10 13:15:17 PDT 1999