> Brian Siano wrote:
>
>> Actually, he's saying that we cannot apply the terms "insane" or
>> "lunatic" to Joseph Stalin. And in this context, and accompanied by
>> Chris's insistence that Stalin's actions were perfectly "rational,"
>> there's little else it can be but a defense of Stalin.
>
>
> So are you arguing that several decades of Soviet history, which
> involved scores of millions of people, can be explained by the
> psychopathology of one man?
Not at all.