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Mystery of malignity, A brilliant exploration of one of the great monsters of history
MercatorNet - New Media Foundation ^ | 06.20.07 | Francis Phillips

Posted on 07/04/2007 5:10:37 PM PDT by Coleus

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To: Coleus

Library list! I think I’ll try to find the book on Potemkin first.


21 posted on 07/04/2007 6:54:26 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Let all creation sing of salvation. Let us together give praise forever!)
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To: Coleus
Had the Czar been more ruthless, would the world have been spared the likes of Lenin and Stalin? Had the Shah been more ruthless, would the world have been spared Khomeini and the Iranian mad mullahs? Had the Israelis been more brutal with their attackers, would the surrounding Arab states be more malleable?

Weakness in the face of an enemy is prelude to suicide.

22 posted on 07/04/2007 7:03:51 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Unleash the Dogs of War as a Minority, or perish as a party.)
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To: Abcdefg

FDR was just another closet socialist. One of the useful idiots Lenin commented on.


23 posted on 07/04/2007 7:05:01 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Unleash the Dogs of War as a Minority, or perish as a party.)
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To: Thumper1960

From what I have read, FDR gave Stalin the same deal Stalin had arranged with Hitler, namely all of Eastern Europe. Churchill was not even included in some of the discussions.


24 posted on 07/04/2007 7:07:10 PM PDT by Abcdefg
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To: Abcdefg

There were plenty of Communists in the FDR regime that would’ve made sure any deals involving FDR and Stalin would be in Stalin’s favor.


25 posted on 07/04/2007 7:15:44 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Unleash the Dogs of War as a Minority, or perish as a party.)
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To: balch3

I don’t know why that part was highlighted. As the article indicated he was the son of an abusive drunk, was that the reason for his ruthlessness? Was is his wife’s death? Was it a psychiatric reason? I think it was evil, pure and simple. But reading Darwin was the cause makes for a simple yet seemingly stupid arguement.


26 posted on 07/04/2007 7:17:01 PM PDT by Oystir
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To: Thumper1960

Sen. Joseph McCarthy was certainly right about that.


27 posted on 07/04/2007 7:17:57 PM PDT by Abcdefg
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To: Oystir

Marxism teaches that man is an animal. Stalin acted on that belief.


28 posted on 07/04/2007 7:19:14 PM PDT by Abcdefg
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To: Logophile
And not so unusual. Saddam Hussein is still worshipped in his hometown. Adolf Hitler has his admirers. John Gotti was a big shot in his neighborhood.

It's such an ugly fact of life that a large portion of the population, in any given place, love the Power Guys, those who will even perpetrate mass murder to get their way.

What I don't understand is why the worshipers don't realize many of them will be the victims of said Power Guy.

"A government that is big enough to give you everything, is big enough to take everything away."

29 posted on 07/04/2007 7:42:40 PM PDT by FlyVet
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To: gcruse

Their insecurity about their own faith is pathetic. Funny, and sad, together.


30 posted on 07/04/2007 8:42:30 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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You cannot offer friendship to tyrants and murderers ... without advancing the cause of tyranny and murder. – Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis. (circa early 1950s)

There's always a conflict of interest when people who don't really like America are called upon to defend it. – Ann Coulter

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As I revisit this tragic Promethean figure of the early 1950s, let us first answer two basic questions lucidly without emotion: 1) Did McCarthy find Communists, Communist sympathizers and Soviet spies in the State Department, in Hollywood, in the academy, in the literary world, in the military, in the media during his Senate committee hearings? 2) Does an unbiased account of history show that McCarthy abused his power? Yes on the first question, No, on the second.

Conservative political writer Ann Coulter said this of McCarthy and the 50 years of incessant demonization by the liberal propaganda press: “

I know he got a bad rap because there are no monuments to Joe McCarthy. Liberals had to destroy McCarthy because he exposed the entire liberal establishment as having sheltered Soviet spies. ... There's always a conflict of interest when people who don't really like America are called upon to defend it.”

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n my opinion, Joseph McCarthy is the only man that can be put in the same sentence with the two other great Republican leaders of the 20th century, and they were both presidents – Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.

much more at:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55190

A must read.

31 posted on 07/04/2007 9:55:27 PM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
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To: Coleus
A Stalinist friend...

Isn't that a contradiction in terms?

Interesting read.

32 posted on 07/05/2007 5:17:36 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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A Stalinist friend...

Yeah, whoda thunk it?

33 posted on 07/05/2007 5:59:28 AM PDT by thegreatbeast (The evil which you fear becomes a certainty by what you do.)
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To: Coleus

Bump for later reading.


34 posted on 07/05/2007 8:26:08 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Coleus
Stalin read the Origin of Species and lost what ever faith he had.

Hm?.....It is **precisely** for this reason that evolution is pushed so hard in our government K-12 schools and in our colleges and universities. The Marxists who control U.S. education want our nation’s youth to lose whatever faith they have.

35 posted on 07/05/2007 12:07:44 PM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: wintertime

It is pushed because it is extremely likely that it is correct. If it conflicts with your beliefs then that is something you will need to resolve personally. I know all the Sun worshipers had to go through the same when it was shown that Sun is nothing more than a big burning ball of gas. Creationists will do the same. They will be added to the long list of science vs. religion debates that have been added to the dustbin of history, including geocentrism, crystal celestial spheres, and volcano worship.


36 posted on 07/05/2007 7:09:39 PM PDT by burzum (None shall see me, though my battlecry may give me away -Minsc)
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To: Coleus
The description is of the standard psychopath.
37 posted on 07/29/2007 5:14:00 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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