Yea, Beria , head of Soviet Secret Police under Stalin was executed as a German spy in the 1950's after Stalin's death. Traitors show up in the damndest places. But Beria was probably the only spy that imperialism had in the Soviet Union for its entire 75 years. Amazing how the bourgeois spy services were asleep at the switch all of those years. One spy in 75 years. Oh there was the U-2 pilot they shot down, but that was probably Stalinist propaganda. Yep, no spies at all.
If things were so horrible under Stalin, how come nobody ever betrayed the Soviet Union and worked for imperialism inside the country ? I mean if there was not one single traitor that means nobody betrayed the country. That has got to be an historical first.
Charles Brown
Detroit
>>> Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> 10/16 2:12 PM >>>
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> When the official Soviet archives show that 3/4 of a million
>were executed by the state (mostly criminals, traitors, and Nazi war
>criminals) then perhaps we should morn for their lost souls.
> Comrade X
Say, is this the same Comrade X who was in the cast of Sam Fuller's "Pickup on South Street"? I seem to recall her as an unsmiling brunette who prevailed over cell meetings underneath a portrait of Stalin, in a basement apartment in a Connecticut suburban cul-de-sac.
Ya gotta watch out for them traitors. There were everywhere. That's why Stalin had to send a hit squad to Mexico, to take care of traitor number one Leon Trotsky.
Once all those traitors were taken care of, it became easier to implement the Popular Front which tied the Communist Parties to bourgeois parties. In Cuba, it led the CP to back Batista while in the US, it inspired the CP to hail putting Japanese-Americans in concentration camps.
Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)