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661 [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 439

... whom this exemption-from-lunacy can be applied to is Stalin. This amounts to saying that "Stalin cannot be insane because he is Stalin." > Stalin was probably a sadist with tendencies toward paranoia that were ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Wed Jul 23 06:13:30 PDT 2003

662 [lbo-talk] Sad Leninism. -- rank: 439

... fact, from Gori, which has the only surviving > statue of Stalin in the former USSR, standing in the square > outside the Stalin Museum that is built around the house > where he grew ... there is a State Museum of an outstanding person J.Stalin, where unique exhibits are collected: memorial things, presents, canvases, photo ... unique historical stuff connected with that epoch, in which J.Stalin liv

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Aug 17 12:16:19 PDT 2008

663 [lbo-talk] bashing of designated evil regimes -- rank: 439

Once http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1937/1937-ussr.htm again http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc0208/falsifications.htm (heh, "Once Again on Falsifications Concerning the Great Leader s Personality, ") on...bashing of designated evil regimes... Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, who lives near by, who had a very hard scrabble Oklahoma ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Feb 1 08:50:05 PST 2004

664 [lbo-talk] Re: Fidel -- rank: 439

... Thus, > Aericans should not have criticized Pol Pol killing > field, Stalin's gulag, the excesses of the Chinese > Cultural Revolution, etc ...

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Author:	Jerry Monaco
Date:	Wed Dec 27 10:32:19 PST 2006

665 [lbo-talk] Trotsky -- rank: 439

... different if somebody else had come into power apart from Stalin. But above all the USSR was created by the conscious ... the Soviet state (which always seems to get reduced to "Stalin" or "the bureaucrats," ignoring that Stalin, whether people like to hear it or not, did enjoy ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Feb 4 00:51:37 PST 2004

666 [lbo-talk] Walter Duranty of the NYT on the Ukrainian Famine -- rank: 439

... Pugliese > <michael.098762001 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Taylor, S.J., "Stalin's apologist: Walter > Duranty, the New York > > Time's man ... New York: Oxford > University Press, 1990). Who wasn't a Stalin apologist? The transcripts of Stalin's meetings with H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and ... read them, but supposedly they were all in awe of Stalin. > > Well OF COURSE Walter Duranty was a stooge of > Stalin's - he was a > reporter for the New York Times ... communism) in the United > States. The New York > Times and Stalin were trying to cover this up, only > Goebbels was > ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Aug 5 06:11:02 PDT 2005

667 [lbo-talk] Hamas "a project of Shin Bet" (was: Hezbollah vs IDF) -- rank: 439

... 10/16/06, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote: > Stalin's posthumous rep keeps going up and up while > Lenin ... viewed as a destroyer who didn't build anything. Whereas Stalin (like Putin) built (is building) something. 2. Soviet people had ... very shocking to them. They already knew all that about Stalin. ;) Stalin's popularity has always been pretty high, despite the Secret Speech and 50 years of anti-Stalin government statements and activity. In 1956, there were huge pro-Stalin riots in Georgia after the Secret Speech that left ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Oct 16 08:08:07 PDT 2006

668 [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 439

... Thus, as has already > >been pointed out when people label Stalin "evil" they tend > >not to pursue any sort of a deeper causal analysis into the > >phenomenon of Stalinism. Stalin killed lots of people because > >he was "evil", and "evil ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Wed Jul 23 19:17:08 PDT 2003

669 tree hugging nazis (was Peter Singer & Vegetarian Dogs) -- rank: 439

... think that was in the >dubious Edward Radetsky bio of Stalin. (On murderous Stalinists, anyone know >the veracity of a story ... pubs. in Boulder, Co.) > Cerbral Hemorreage or Stroke, is how Stalin died, right?..... I never accepted the official version of Stalin's death. The time lapse between the "stroke" and the ... were innocent, and all were released. Then we learned that Stalin's factot

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Wed Mar 8 19:08:33 PST 2000

670 [lbo-talk] [pen-l] Re: What Caused the Holodomor? -- rank: 439

... were not socialist, but so fucking what! We owe to Stalin that the "official" language of most of Europe and the U.S. is not German! Lou has to hate Stalin and hold to a utopian version of socialism because of ...

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Author:	Cox, Carrol
Date:	Sat Mar 25 16:06:54 PDT 2017

671 [lbo-talk] WWP & KPRF -- rank: 405

The June 7th, 1990 issue of WW even included a photo op of the WWP delegates with their North Korean friends, including Kim Il Sung, who stood in the center of the photo flanked by Marcy and Griswold. In April 1992 another U.S. delegation led by Marcy that included Sue ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Jun 2 08:18:20 PDT 2003

672 [lbo-talk] Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 405

... there's much benefit... but denounce the sins of Joseph Stalin, and there'll be morons crawling out of the woodwork ... say , I , like that Marxist Khruschev, don't mind saying Stalin committed big crimes. But with our attention to dialectics, I ... also do some things that are , dare I say, good. Stalin

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Jul 24 10:02:53 PDT 2003

673 [lbo-talk] "I like rightists" -- rank: 405

... Soviet history, of which I am skeptical. The immediate post-Stalin elite (esp. Beria) was very radical. He was admittedly executed ... the changes even Khrushchev implemented were pretty radical. Not even Stalin ever dreamed of changing the direction of huge rivers. IMO ... to. Brezhnev and Andropov are very well liked, as is Stalin. Lenin, Krushchev, and Gorbachev, no. (As for Trotsky, don't ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed May 6 08:36:28 PDT 2009

674 The 20th Century - XS deaths -- rank: 405

> > >XS deaths, mainly from famine, 1930-8 range from 11 million to 17 million. > >The Economist is presumably grubbing for headlines. > >Chris Burford > >London I think not. I think that Rummel is the only collection we have--and that Bill Emmott was driven to use it for the same reason ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Tue Sep 14 20:23:09 PDT 1999

675 [lbo-talk] great moments in the history of liberalism -- rank: 405

... has transformed under the regime of the time. As for Stalin, yeah Trotsky clearly hated the man, but people tend to ... the power of the bureaucracy as a whole rather than Stalin as an individual. If anything, there was a constant underestimation of Stalin's influence, rather than the reverse. The question of the ... a radical shift in who was in the party as Stalin gained more

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Author:	wrobert at uci.edu
Date:	Mon Jul 9 12:33:03 PDT 2007