[lbo-talk] A Call from the Maoists of Iran

Luke Benjamin Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Tue Jul 1 10:46:34 PDT 2003


On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Chris Doss wrote:


> Well, that opinion is rather widespread in Russia. You can make a perfectly
> rational cost-benefit analysis and argue that Stalin was good for the
> country (note that you cannot do so with Hitler).

Only because the Germans lost the war. There are plenty of plausible alternate histories in which Nazi Germany fights a less ambitious version of WWII and wins.

-- Luke



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