[lbo-talk] Was the USSR a "good try" and valuable counterweight?

[Chris Doss]

Well, from my experience here in Moscow, I would say that Stalin was the most popular Russian leader ever, at least post-tsarist. He is No. 2 in popularity todaty, after Putin.

 
Have you ever seen the footage of Stalin's funeral? That is mass grief.

 
Sakharov cried when Stalin died. Everybody cried. God was dead.

 
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if you're arguing that there was popular support for the regime in 
Russia, 
I'm afraid I missed the evidence.  I would argue that it would be 
impossible 
for us to guage exactly how much popular support existed for the 
regime, 
even if we had opinion polls available - because such evidence might 
not 
mean very much.  "Consent" obviously means something different in a 
dictatorship than in a liberal democracy - so I reckon the first 
problem 
we'd have would be the definition of terms.

		
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