I don't particularly want to get into a long argument about Stalin and Stalinism, but I was just wondering: Charles, what is your opinion of the Moscow Trials? Do you think the execution of Old Bolsheviks was a 'necessary evil'? And what do you think of Trotsky - was he, as Stalin claimed, a counter-revolutionary? Should he have been murdered?
Peter -- Peter van Heusden : pvanheus at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk : PGP key available Criticism has torn up the imaginary flowers from the chain not so that man shall wear the unadorned, bleak chain but so that he will shake off the chain and pluck the living flower. - Karl Marx
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