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76 (Lenin/Stalin/Nicholas (was: Re: [lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance) -- rank: 612

... Lenin is remembered as a nihilistic destroyer (like Yeltsin?), while Stalin has found a place in mass consciousness as Ruthlessly Cruel ... Defender of the Fatherland. Lenin destroyed a great power; while Stalin built a great power. (Hey, ike Yeltsin/Putin again.) AM NOT GOING TO GET INTO ANOTHER STALIN CONVERSATION!!!! --- Peter Lavelle <untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com> wrote: > Chris ... here - thank God! > > Lenin was a beast and hateful murderer. > > Stalin is a very different question. The peoples of > the Soviet Union defeated Hitler - with or without > Stalin's "help." When Russians can agree on this, a > healthly ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Jun 19 03:50:29 PDT 2005

77 [lbo-talk] Stalin -- rank: 612

Resisting Stalin The more we learn of Josef Stalin, the more alluring he becomes. By Lewis H. Siegelbaum Published ... a little ghoulish, readers can't get enough of Josef Stalin and the horrors he committed. This past year alone, we ... to several blockbuster biographies, of which Simon Sebag Montefiore's "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar" made the greatest splash. Reports that Saddam Hussein modeled his unsavory career on Stalin's only whetted the public's appetite for one of ... greatest WMDs of all time. The more we learn of Stalin -- and we have learned a great deal since the ...

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Author:	John Norem
Date:	Thu Dec 23 14:13:39 PST 2004

78 [lbo-talk] Stalin returns! -- rank: 612

... here's a hebephrenic machine-translated version of it: MY STALIN In Saint Petersburg casting of new large work of sculptor ... the big three " leaders of an antihitlerite coalition: Roosevelt - Churchill - Stalin. Authorities wanted to establish a monument on mountain Poklonnoj, but ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Feb 15 09:01:22 PST 2005

79 [lbo-talk] MORE ALIVE THAN MANY OF THE LIVING (Stalin) -- rank: 612

... I must say that, purely on aesthetic grounds, Tsereteli's Stalin/Churchill/Roosevelt statue is by far his best. Yalta is ... is in the Crimea, where the Crimean Tatars live, who Stalin deported. A while ago I was having a smoke break ... area/men's bathroom and reading Volkogov's bio of Stalin. One of our security guards was in there too and ... reading that traitor. He then expressed very strong support for Stalin ("who killed a lot of people, including ones, but it ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Mar 7 03:14:09 PST 2005

80 Khrushchev -- rank: 612

... York: W. W. Norton & Company. $35. He was one of Stalin's most trusted henchmen, up to his elbows in blood ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Sun Mar 16 23:16:28 PST 2003

81 Death of Stalin (corrected) (was Re: tree hugging nazis (was Peter Singer & Vegetarian ... -- rank: 612

... 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:	Thu Mar 9 15:34:29 PST 2000

82 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 612

... actually challenge anything I said that was concrete in critizing Stalin's follies vis a vis Hitler. I might have added ... in the first mad days of the war. In fact, Stalin developed into a tolerable leader after having his (and our ... against the allies in the later days of the war, Stalin was unparalleled. As a military leader, he was no better ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Nov 3 14:21:54 PST 2000

83 [lbo-talk] Also Sprach Djugashvili -- rank: 612

I'm reading Simon Montefiore's wonderful book Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, using all kinds of ... and associates of the Vozhd (I had no idea that Stalin's daughter was living in the Midwestern US). The insight it provides into the period and Stalin himself is deep, IMO, and I really recommend it. Some great Stalin quotes in the book: Stalin is berating one of his sons for using the Stalin name to get ahead. The son objects and says ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Nov 20 02:36:10 PST 2004

84 [lbo-talk] Re:Genocide, Holocaust -- rank: 612

Waiting for James Weinstein tonight to talk at Modern Times about his new book on the US Left in the 20th century, "Long Detour, " blurbed by Eric Foner and other luminaries, I picked up, "Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing In 20th Century Europe, " by Norman Naimark, Harvard Univ. Press, 2001. Chapter ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Jun 6 22:43:53 PDT 2003

85 [lbo-talk] Dolan on Stalin -- rank: 612

... our present. Looking back on the likes of Lenin and Stalin does us no good..... --- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com ... don't know if it's accurate to say > that Stalin simply "realized" an authoritarian > regime > as if it was a ...

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Author:	Peter Lavelle
Date:	Tue Jun 21 13:50:06 PDT 2005

86 [lbo-talk] Russian attitudes to Lenin, Stalin, Putin etc. -- rank: 596

JRL had an interesting thing on this a little while ago, which I reproduce below. JRL RESEARCH AND ANALYTICAL SUPPLEMENT Issue No. 32 November 2005 Editor: Stephen D. Shenfield shenfield at neaccess.net SOCIETY 7. SHIFTING PERCEPTIONS OF THE PAST SOURCE. Yu. A. Levada, "Istoricheskiye ramki 'budushchego' v obshchestvennom mnenii" [Historical ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Dec 17 06:36:43 PST 2005

87 [lbo-talk] Re: Beria question -- rank: 596

... W.W. Norton, 876 pp., $35) Beria--My Father: Inside Stalin's Kremlin By Sergo Beria (Duckworth, 397 pp., $26.95 ... be put down with tanks and fighter planes, demonstrating that > Stalin's terrible legacy would confront his heirs whether or not ... Also, Khrushchev initially resisted efforts to > probe and to criticize Stalin's rule, seeking instead to scapegoat Beria

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Feb 20 22:10:48 PST 2005

88 [lbo-talk] Stalin Again (Was Re: OFFLIST: ) -- rank: 596

... himself from doing it. None of those things apply to >> Stalin, although we cannot be sure about the second. >> Maybe S ... so it wasn't wrong. > > > My own hunch is that Stalin, surrounded as he was by people who told > him what ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Thu Jul 24 06:27:40 PDT 2003

89 [lbo-talk] Russia turns to Stalin to boost tourism -- rank: 596

... 060419120543 A Russian region has restored a memorial to Josef Stalin in a bid to boost tourism, in the latest of ... 400-square-metre memorial has a life-size statue of Stalin in the centre. It has been closed since 1961 and ... almost completely destroyed by a fire in 1995. Statues of Stalin were once dotted across the Soviet Union but disappeared after ... in several Russian towns in recent months. In December a Stalin museum was opened in the city of Volgograd. The

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Author:	mike larkin
Date:	Wed Apr 19 19:11:44 PDT 2006

90 Ukraine & WWII and the Famine in the 30's (was Re: American identity) -- rank: 596

Michael, these are a few leads, more on the Ukraine and the 30's famine, but, they might steer you to to sources on WWII. Though on WWII and the Ukranians and the Nazis see the book on the World Anti-Communist League by the Anderson brothers, and the So uth ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Jun 10 13:14:52 PDT 2001