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616 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 469

... purges had done their work. Likewise about the wisom of Stalin's "strategy" in the first days of the war: Surely ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Mon Nov 6 08:40:41 PST 2000

617 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole whacks Hitch the Snitch -- rank: 469

... a person in the CIS who has positive feelings toward Stalin is somehow comparable to some nut waving a Stalin portrait in a demonstration in San Francisco. It's not. Old people here actually lived through the Stalin era. They were in the War. They lived through the Seige of Leningrad and the Battle of Stalingrand. Stalin was their hero -- the battlecry was "Za Rodinu, za Stalina!" (For the Motherland, for Stalin!"). They were shot at by fucking machine-guns and had ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun May 7 13:55:07 PDT 2006

618 [lbo-talk] : BDL on Sweezy) -- rank: 469

Brad said that Sweezey's favorable citation of Stalin speaks for itself, and it is how he would like ... an economist is that he at least one agreed with Stalin. If as a political figure, it is unclear how this ... a Stalinist in politics. Lots of folks were soft of Stalin and nonetheless did good work. Do you disagree, Brad. Politically ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Mon Mar 1 14:35:50 PST 2004

619 [lbo-talk] Justin's Post to Pen-l-- BDL on Sweezy) -- rank: 469

... talk.org Brad said that Sweezey's favorable citation of Stalin speaks for itself, and it is how he would like ... an economist is that he at least once agreed with Stalin. If as a political figure, it is unclear how this ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue Mar 2 13:08:14 PST 2004

620 Zyuganov *Weekly Worker" of the CPGB cont.) -- rank: 469

<URL: http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/317/cprf.html > In the turgid theorising of such works as Russia - my homeland we discover a doctrine directed not towards the liberation of humanity from alienation and oppression, but towards its continued enslavement. In seeking to bolster his notion of Russian statehood ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Dec 27 10:37:32 PST 2002

621 A band of Trotsky-fascist killers, spies, and wreckers -- rank: 469

... agents and provocateurs of the Tsarist secret police." Allegations that Stalin was are here. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2808/chap3.html Even I think it's a stretch. For Stalin in 1917, see a book by Robert Slusser, "Stalin in October: The Man who missed the Revolution, " Johns Hopkins ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Sep 7 17:10:35 PDT 2001

622 [lbo-talk] Caucasian Geo-graphy -- rank: 469

... is very worth knowing. It helps explain the circumstances of Stalin's timely decess. > > ...Mingrelian Affair > > The Mingrelian Affair, or Mingrelian ... Initiated on the personal orders of the Soviet dictator Joseph > Stalin, the affair apparently aimed at eliminating the influence of > Lavrentiy Beria, of whom Stalin was getting increasingly suspicious. > [1] The fabricated accusations of forming ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Tue Aug 26 07:38:06 PDT 2008

623 [lbo-talk] Re: Also Sprach Djugashvili -- rank: 469

Stalin said some pithier things than the ones cited by Montefiori ... 20th Party Congress: "...One of the most characteristic examples of Stalin's self-glorification and of his lack of even elementary ... which was published in 1948. ...... "Here are some examples characterizing Stalin's activity, added in Stalin's own hand: 'In his fight against the sceptics and ...

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Author:	Turbulo at aol.com
Date:	Sat Nov 20 14:27:52 PST 2004

624 Soviet philosophy -- rank: 469

> > Soviet philosophy >"Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> >Subject: Re: > > > > >CB: Again, there is significant circularity to your argument. You assume > >part of what is at issue: that what they were "told to say" had no > >validity. > >It had no validity, > >^^^^^ > >CB: This is circular. It is one of the ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Wed Feb 27 14:29:04 PST 2002

625 [lbo-talk] Cast of "Reds" -- rank: 469

... Lenin himself had an inkling about what might happen were Stalin's actions unchecked, and warned the Bolshevik leadership about it in his Testament, suppressed, of course, under Stalin. The Bolshevik leadership Lenin warned was murdered almost to a ... Leninists were a cult. I said the Soviet Union under Stalin and after fostered a cult of Lenin. Some self-styled ...

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Author:	andie_nachgeborenen
Date:	Thu Sep 6 22:49:43 PDT 2012

626 Soviet Philosophy -- rank: 469

CB: with Khruschev, I said Stalin's crimes were serious and unforgivable. Maybe you were so ... attention to what I actually said. I just feel that Stalin should have been able to settle differences within the Party ... personality? Nothing ideological there at all? ^^^^^^ CB: Yes, I think Stalin's main weaknesses were in personality. In fact, Khruschev originated ... the personality" concept in his speech. _Guessing_, I'd say Stalin had personality insecurity problems, particularly perhaps in relation to the ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Feb 28 12:49:29 PST 2002

627 marxist sociology -- rank: 469

... as they did around some perennial issues in Marxist philosophy. (Stalin BTW settled that debated by fiat). ^^^^^ CB: I'm trying ... out that there is arbitrary power shaping Western philosophy too. Stalin's methods were more violent, but as far as the ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Sat Feb 23 07:02:00 PST 2002

628 Cambodia Part 1 -- rank: 439

... 24 PM Subject: Re: Cambodia Part 1 I think that Stalin and Mao were different from Pol Pot. Where the Khmer ... between China and Stalinist USSR. There was some logic in Stalin's policies. They were a brutal and accelerated primitive acumulation ...

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Author:	Alexandre Fenelon
Date:	Wed Jan 5 14:29:02 PST 2000

629 [lbo-talk] Mussolini, Trotskyist -- rank: 439

--- Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> wrote: > Hi Chris and Michael P, > > Goatfuckers and ....niks aside, I've always been > curious about the storm around > German-Soviet non-agression treaty (aka "The > Nazi-Soviet Pact") of 1939. As > you pointed out, Chris, the Italian Fascist State > had signed a ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Oct 1 05:07:32 PDT 2005

630 [lbo-talk] Bush's reading list (was: War protests in LA area) -- rank: 439

... to return to an essay I > have been writing on Stalin: "Re-Stalinization or > Stalinmania." A discussion on how Russia's ... people (nation). > All my Russian-language books on Lenin or Stalin fall into one of two categories, except for The Unknown Stalin by the Flying Medvedev Brothers: 1. Stalin (or Lenin) was the greatest leader in history. Today, he ... will know the truth about L and/or S. 2. Stalin (or Lenin) was the most evil leader in history. In ... had hitherto suspected. In this book, I will prove how Stalin had a secret plan to give Russian people to ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Aug 28 14:46:03 PDT 2005