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646 Suicide Bombers -- rank: 439

...The fear of World War was real. It was a warranted fear . . . Wherever Stalinism conquered, freedom vanished. It was necessary, therefore, to strengthen resistance among the bourgeois democratic states in Europe, as they existed at that moment, and not wait for some presumed perfection in the future. This meant to ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat May 11 20:05:04 PDT 2002

647 SovArch 2 -- rank: 439

Document IV: Ciphered telegram from Tunkin to Soviet Foreign Ministry (in reply to telegram of September 11), 14 September 1949 [He reports that he had meetings with Kim Il Sung and Pak Hon-yong on September 12 and 13 about the questions raised in the telegram of September 11 and gives ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 29 17:37:30 PST 1998

648 "the heroic anti-Communist left" -- rank: 439

[The heroic anti-communist left, which just happened to end up with the CIA.] New York Times Book Review - March 28, 1999 Under the Beds of the Reds Of all the liberal anti-Communists, Jay Lovestone may have been the most feared. By PAUL BERMAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A COVERT LIFE Jay Lovestone ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 28 10:35:22 PST 1999

649 Carowan Unmasked -- rank: 439

... disc2.htm Diskussion Debate / Débat Slavoj Žižek: Lenin, Lukacs, Stalin Ultimately, the reproach of the Central Committee members to Bukharin ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Feb 20 09:37:30 PST 2001

650 [lbo-talk] BDL on Sweezy -- rank: 439

... remembered for the following passage: >> >> >>"The publication in 1952 of Stalin's Economic Problems of Socialism >>in the USSR would make ... possible today a more satisfactory reply.ŠIn >>the light of [Stalin's] explanationŠI would like to amend the >>statement which ... original wording and >>is, I think entirely in accord with Stalin's view." (Paul Sweezy >>(1953), The Present as History (New ...

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Author:	Brad DeLong
Date:	Sun Feb 29 20:13:48 PST 2004

651 Saddam, diabolical genius (was: Re: Jewish Collegians Prepare to Defend Israel on the Campuses) -- rank: 439

... of the Soviet >>Union over Nazi Germany, right? Remember, the Stalin regime was >>responsible for the deaths of more people than ... calculus, was just as "diabolical" - if not more so, >>since Stalin met with greater success - then Hitler. > >If I understand you ... chose the wrong side when they decided to ally with Stalin against >Hitler, rather than with Hitler against Stalin--that the world would >have been a better place than ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Sep 5 10:16:37 PDT 2001

652 "the heroic anti-Communist left" -- rank: 439

Thank you, Doug. For the past few months, I have been trying to point out the hypocrisy of American unionism in Cold War ideology. The ILGWU had racist policies against Asian and Latin workers until its traditional East European member finally disappeared as part of the larger shift in the American ...

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Author:	Henry C.K. Liu
Date:	Sun Mar 28 11:41:09 PST 1999

653 Soviet philosophy (Was : marxist sociology) -- rank: 439

> >^^^^^ >CB: I'm trying to think whether the academic powers that be in the West >don't use fiat quite a bit in deciding who gets to be a paid philosopher. >How many Dialecticians get tenure in the U.S. philosophy departments. I wondered how long it would take Charles ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Sat Feb 23 09:41:42 PST 2002

654 [lbo-talk] Caucasian Geo-graphy -- rank: 439

Prometheus has the disadvantage of not being real. ;) Technically Beria was an ethnic Mingrel. There was a Purge of the Mingrels going on at the same time as the Doctor's Plot. Samegrelo Megrelia, Mingrelia or Samegrelo/Samargalo (Georgian: Samegrelo; Mingrelian: Samargalo) is a historic province in the western part of ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Aug 26 03:48:34 PDT 2008

655 [lbo-talk] Ad hominem: lets not forget Sweezey -- rank: 439

... s original statement commits tu quoque fallacy >with respect to Stalin , as Michael Perelman alluded to. tu quoque is trying to ... look at the post. I recall him saying that if Stalin won a Nobel Prize for mathematics, his political crimes wouldn ... bad. I took this to mean by analogy, that mentioning Stalin's crimes is an ad hominem argument against Stalin's opinion that the law of value was still operating ... Being a mass >murderer is irrelevant to the validity of Stalin's opinion o

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Mar 2 14:25:18 PST 2004

656 [lbo-talk] Mao: the Unknown Story -- rank: 439

... biography is that Mao was as evil as Hitler and Stalin. Some will dismiss this is a hatchet job, meaning that ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat May 28 06:56:29 PDT 2005

657 [lbo-talk] Gulag query -- rank: 439

... toll of imprisonment and death of innocent people during the Stalin Terror was unacceptably high, and (2) was much, much lower ... to me that the purpose of this recurrent thread on Stalin, Stalinism, mass killings, the Gulag is to contribute toward making ...

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Author:	BrownBingb at aol.com
Date:	Mon Apr 21 12:59:20 PDT 2003

658 Lawmakers vote overwhelmingly to raise Russia's minimum wage -- rank: 439

... of such a thing. Thanks Chris. BTW, what is a Stalin apartment? ----------------------- Unfortunately, Russia does not base fees on income levels ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Mon Apr 22 06:18:18 PDT 2002

659 RES: North Korea -- rank: 439

... I am a Leninist. I'm not a follower of Stalin, but anti-communists tend to exaggerate his crimes (a la ... crimes of liberals in history far outway the crimes of Stalin. CB Here I disagree with you. It s difficult to ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed Apr 26 11:58:06 PDT 2000

660 RES: a trip to North Korea -- rank: 439

>Brad DeLong wrote, > >> I thought that the CWIHP had new information about Commie germ >> warfare charges--internal Kremlin documents saying that they were >> false... > > Nonsense. It was U.S. scientists who documented the germ warfare >conducted by "United Nations" forces, and who published their findings in a >U.S. journal ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Sun Apr 23 18:11:05 PDT 2000