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826 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 362

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

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Nov 6 13:55:21 PST 2000

827 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy (now question of consent) -- rank: 362

... is a real question because of, like you know Hitler, Stalin and X. Not that they have anything in common I ...

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Author:	tfast
Date:	Thu May 10 10:49:36 PDT 2007

828 [lbo-talk] BDL on Sweezy -- rank: 362

... 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.SIn > > >the light of [Stalin's] explanationSI would like to amend the > > >statement which Mr ... 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:	T Fast
Date:	Sun Feb 29 19:46:49 PST 2004

829 [lbo-talk] Eagleton on fascism -- rank: 362

It's appears from the context that the reference to "Stalin" in the Eagleton article was a typo. There are lots of accusations you can make about Stalin's treatment of Ukrainians, but to say he "slaughtered Ukrainian ... winning the war. And whatever else you can say about Stalin, that's also not something you can say about him: if anything, left purists have long been critical of Stalin for "betraying" revolutionary principles for the "narrow" purposes of statecraft ...

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Author:	John Lacny
Date:	Mon May 10 06:56:05 PDT 2004

830 [lbo-talk] RE: Trotsky on Soviet planning -- rank: 362

... of that in the renewed high posthumous approval rates for Stalin. In the Brezhnev era, he was mostly remembered as a ... reexamined their views in light of the 1990s economic collapse -- Stalin built the economy; Yeltsin wrecked it. That said, the universal consensus in Russia was that Stalin was, in his own time, the object of a genuine ... term) commentary: "Alas! Our people are so backward! We adored Stalin! What is wrong with us?" It's not so much ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Jan 10 07:27:12 PST 2005

831 [lbo-talk] Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill -- rank: 362

Michael Dawson MDawson at pdx.edu, Fri Feb 18 13:27:21 PST 2005: >>In original witch-hunts in history, there were no witches in the >>sense that there wasn't a single person in possession of satanic >>powers that witch hunters attributed to witches. In contrast, in >>modern witch-hunts ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Feb 18 14:44:00 PST 2005

832 [lbo-talk] Lenin's place in Russia -- rank: 362

... for working unpaid on Saturdays, that was soon forgotten when Stalin introduced labor camps, which provided the country with free labor all the year round. After Stalin's death, life became less brutal and the s

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Tue Apr 29 03:17:32 PDT 2003

833 [lbo-talk] Berlin to Erect Monument to Hitler . . . Not. But not that far. -- rank: 362

--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > New Stalin Monument > > MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Moscow plans to erect a new > statue > of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, returning his > once-ubiquitous image to its streets after an ... widespread nostalgia for Russia's > communist > years. But rehabilitation of Stalin, who was > denounced > after his death in 1953 by the ... of opponents, has previously been out of bounds. > Statues of Stalin were removed from Moscow's public > spaces in the 1960s ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Thu Jan 20 07:47:18 PST 2005

834 Saddam, diabolical genius (was: Re: Jewish Collegians Prepare to Defend Israel on the Campuses) -- rank: 362

... 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:	Brad DeLong
Date:	Tue Sep 4 21:05:40 PDT 2001

835 fascism -- rank: 362

... within Iraq is from what i've read similar to Stalin's, in fact in an interview with Said K. Aburish ... detailed account and states that Hussein in fact did idolize Stalin as a hero, he even had pictures of Stalin in his office when he working in the regime that ...

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Author:	Micheal Ellis
Date:	Wed Feb 20 09:28:58 PST 2002

836 [lbo-talk] Cambodia -- rank: 362

On Monday, July 18, 2005 9:16 AM [PDT], Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com> wrote: > Broken record, Leigh. > Google Nixon Kissinger Vietnam Pugliese.Plenty of lbo-talk posts by > me on CIA and Guatemalan genocide too.And others under USG auspices. > What you and Lance and others of your ...

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Mon Jul 18 10:00:32 PDT 2005

837 BDL on EH -- rank: 362

... because Hobsbawm broke temporal sequence: he moved the discussion >>of Stalin far away from his narrative of interwar Europe. He did this >>because he did not focus on Stalin until sometime after 1956. Thus in >>terms of Hobsbawm's personal experiential timeline, the nature of >>Stalin's rule falls after successful social-democratic reconstruction >>in post ... point. For Hobsbawm, Hitler's belongs to the thirties and Stalin's tyranny belongs to the late 1950s. So that's ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Sat May 27 23:22:06 PDT 2000

838 [lbo-talk] Let History Judge! :) -- rank: 362

New Stalin Monument MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Moscow plans to erect a new statue of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, returning his once-ubiquitous image to its streets after an ... widespread nostalgia for Russia's communist years. But rehabilitation of Stalin, who was denounced after his death in 1953 by the ... of opponents, has previously been out of bounds. Statues of Stalin were removed from Moscow's public spaces in the 1960s ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Jan 20 03:42:44 PST 2005

839 [lbo-talk] The effect of drones -- rank: 362

"But as with the Union in the the US Civil War, the long run can be long, bloody, and tricky." Right, and Germany's strategic disadvantage post-1941 shouldn't be confused with their on-the-ground operational capabilities, which were superior to all of Allies until at least 1943 ...

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Author:	Mark DeLucas
Date:	Mon Oct 8 08:58:35 PDT 2012

840 Who did FSU in? -- rank: 362

... Johnson's Russia List from time to time.) YOUTH AGAINST STALIN SOURCE. Juliane Furst, "Prisoners of the Soviet Self?-- Political Youth ... pp. 353-376. We are accustomed to thinking of the Stalin regime as exercising surveillance over society so tight as to ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Sun Jun 16 01:36:26 PDT 2002