>From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>
> Who would have ever thought? Carrol has read Solzhenitsyn!
> "The History of Our Sewage Disposal System, " pgs. 24-92, Vol. I of The
>Gulag Archipelago.
> Koba, Mad, Chris?
Solzhenitsyn is hardly an unbiased source of infomation.
FWIW, Solzhenitsyn's political positions are practically indistinguishable from those of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. It is rumored that he once considered getting party membership. (I would just LOVE that.)
Stalin was highly rational. A lunatic does not work his way up from low-life gangster to head of the Bolshevik Party. A lunatic does not outfox all of the Old Bolsheviks. That requires long-term planning, self-control and discipline.
> I'll leave the clinical diagnosis to someone trained w/ a DSM handy. How
>about evil on a par w/ AH? Someone who could sign off on imprisoning the
>ten yr. old son of Kamenev, 4 yrs. after his Dad was assasinated. Who
>killed more leaders of the German and Polish Communist Party than AH?
Evil is a metaphysical and theological category. It does not belong in historical analysis. For a dictator to wipe out his enemies and those connected with them is supremely rational.
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