Once http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1937/1937-ussr.htm again http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc0208/falsifications.htm (heh, "Once Again on Falsifications Concerning the Great Leader’s Personality, ") on...bashing of designated evil regimes...
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, who lives near by, who had a very hard scrabble Oklahoma upbringing, (see her Red Dirt Okie book and the follow up from City Lights Books on her SDS days, when she was on the leftest edge of SDS, when the scions of the bourgeoisie, proto yuppies like Bill Ayers, son of a utility co. executive and Kathy Boudin, who went to the "best schools" like Vassar, were fucking up, along w/ PLP and COINTELPRO, SDS, in the late 60's), back in the 80's, working for a UN subcommittee on human rights, after her work in the anti-apartheid movement, gathered information, mostly from the Iraqi Communist Party, Kurds and Sh'ia, on the human rights violations pf the Iraqi Ba'athists. http://mailman.lbo- talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20040105/000382.html
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz...Saw her in the crowd at Modern Times when Bill Ayers w/ Bernadine Dohrn was on his book tour. http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1548/4_18/105370445/p1/article.jhtml
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To the Editor: During my UN human rights work in the l980s, Saddam Hussein's atrocities were well known and documented. I worked with Kurds, Marsh Arabs, and Iraqi Communists who were in forced exile and whose families had been tortured and killed. The nadir was 1988, when Hussein used chemical weapons against Kurdish villages and Iranian soldiers in the north. At every step of the way, the Reagan, then Bush administrations blocked every resolution. I resent the accusation in Juan Cole's essay in your May/June 2003 issue that "the anti-war movement" did not properly address Saddam Hussein's human rights abuses. Had the United States not blocked all diplomatic measures in the 1980s, Hussein would have been toppled, just as the apartheid regime in South Africa was. The problem is the United States, and that's what we need to deal with. DR. ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ San Francisco, CA COPYRIGHT 2003 Tikkun Magazine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Deluded "Communists" in Russia now. http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc0208/falsifications.htm ...Modern imperialism, with the support from revisionists of various kind, does everything within its capabilities to diminish the great leader’s name, to erase it from the people’s memory. This is because Stalin means Socialism and Communism. That means equality and fraternity of all the peoples of the world. The power and the vigorous logic present in his teachings, remain the principle weapon in the struggles to establish the dominance of Labour over Capital. This is why even a mere mentioning of the leader’s name is sufficient to cause a shiver amongst those who pull our socialist Homeland backwards in spite of the laws of historical development. By using lies, by doctoring and substituting facts, these modern human mutants are trying to forge an imager of Stalin, which is the direct opposite of what the leader truly represents. The ideological heirs of those responsible for the acts of terror in the young Soviet country (1) accuse J.V. Stalin of terrorism. The descendants of those that created the theory of "kulaks’ socialism" and the 1933 Famine are trying to hold Bolsheviks responsible for causing some of the population to starve.
The newborn leaders of the present day Russia’s totalitarian pseudo- democracy accuse Stalin of totalitarianism. The traitors and the gravediggers of our Soviet Homeland who are now following the catastrophic path dictated by US and NATO, spread lies about our heroic History.
But rather than contemplating the past, slandering one’s own people, is it not more appropriate to deal with the current affairs first? For example, as total robbery of Soviet people, its extinction as a result of pseudo- reforms, is this not genocide or a compelled starved existence? J.V. Stalin was the leader, whose genius is recognized worldwide. It was under his leadership that our country made a huge leap out of centuries-long backwardness to the heights of world excellence, in quite extreme conditions, with enemies inside and outside the USSR. Can anyone question this?
However, it is important to do much more than just clear the great leader’s name of the slanders. The latter is essentially obvious. It is imperative that we defend his teachings! So what is the essence of Lenin’s and Stalin’s concept of changing the world?...
...To give readers outside the boundaries of the USSR an idea of the amount that the governmental Mafia of Ukraine seized from the personal savings in formerly State-owned banks, we shall quote some figures. These figures were reported by people’s deputy of Ukraine Jurii Donchenko… the sum is around 132 billions (3) Grivnas, which is the estimated national budget expenditure for Ukraine for the year 2002. So, who is the scoundrel robbing the masses – a communist (o)r a bourgeois?
Today over 40% of the working population in the Ukraine are unemployed. Every year, 3 to 7 million Ukrainian citizens are compelled to leave the country for other countries, seeking jobs on legal or illegal basis.
...THIRD aspect is also a very important one, is that a true Communist, Bolshevik, Stalinist is a convinced internationalist. The Soviet Union was a perfect example of the unity and friendship of peoples, united in pursuing common aims and tasks. Soviet patriotism had been the greatest ethico-psychological and political achievement of the Soviet power. Quoted in the newspaper Communist, December 21, 2001.