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STILL STRUGGLING WITH STALIN: Uncle Joe's old fans play dumb
Reason.com ^ | Aug. 27 2002 | Cathy Young

Posted on 08/27/2002 2:27:53 PM PDT by Senator Pardek

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To: Skooz
I heartily recommend (British historian) Robert Conquest's books for anyone who wants to understand the subject, including the Harvest of Sorrow, The Great Terror: A Reassessment, and Stalin: Breaker of Nations. Also the works of Richard Pipes are excellent for understanding how Russia collapsed into this mess - Richard Pipes was President Reagan's advisor on Russia.

Regards, Ivan

21 posted on 08/28/2002 5:10:29 AM PDT by MadIvan
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To: MadIvan
Exactly. As far as I know, we never engaged Pol Pot's Cambodia in any "cold war." Thus, communism was left to stand or fall on its own merits with no western interference.

Just a sidenote: Remember when Pol Pot died? I strained my ear at every news report hoping to hear the newsreader call him a communist. I heard, oh maybe, 30 news reports concerning his death. In these news reports the word "communist" was used exactly zero times. "Dictator" was used most often. It was never reported that he was a communist or that he was the head of a communist regime. As far as these news readers were concerned, he was just another depostic dictator (probably Right-wing like Pinochet).

22 posted on 08/28/2002 5:19:41 AM PDT by Skooz
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To: woofer
"Like Lenin and Trotsky said ... 'he that controls the education and upbringing of the children will control the future...'"

And he who controls the future controls the past (...and he who controls the past controls the future...)

-G. Orwell

23 posted on 08/28/2002 5:41:26 AM PDT by Constitutional Patriot
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To: Senator Pardek; All
FWIW--

That Bloody Century Pass'd- "We have nothing to fear but Governments Themselves..."

24 posted on 08/28/2002 6:36:06 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: dead
Unbelievable.

Does this person know nothing of the Ukraine Famine, or does he have the rank and file talking points that this didn't exist, this was a capitalism invention, or these people destroyed their own food and were fifth columnist German insurrectionists?

27 posted on 09/08/2002 1:58:57 PM PDT by VetoBill
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