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

[Chris Doss]

>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

He did much more than that. In the 20s, most people in the USSR had never 
seen a toilet. In the 50s, the USSR was an industrial superpower. In the 
60s, it was building hovercraft and sending men into space.

That was Stalin.

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