-----Mensagem original----- De: lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org]Em nome de Chris Doss Enviada em: sexta-feira, 25 de julho de 2003 13:42 Para: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Assunto: RE: OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns
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>>Gorbachev?
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>A very impressive guy in a lot of ways...
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>Brad DeLong
... who is despised by the majority of his countrymen. He got less than one percent of the vote in the 1996 presidential elections. He refused to believe it.
-Not withouth reason, since he helped to led the USSR to disintegration. I -remember Roy Medveded, in an interview after Gorbachev´s resignation, saying -more or less these words...
-"History judges leaders by a unanimous parameter, the state of a country before -and after this leader. Stalin, despite his methods I ever criticized, received -the country in a very poor situation and transformed it in a superpower, while -Gorbatchev did the opposite"...thus implying he thinks Stalin was better. -Btw: Medveved´s calculation of 40,000,000 of Stalin victims seems to count also -non fatal repression victims. Given the short sentences of the majority of people -who went to the Gulag, this could be a somewhat accurate number.
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