[lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Dec 4 12:12:34 PST 2005


Peter Lavelle wrote:


>Putin is on the record saying: "the outrageous price our country and
>people had to paid for that Bolshevist experiment" or calls
>communism a "road to a blind alley."

That's what he says now. What was he saying when he was in the KGB?

Boris Kagarlitsky said years ago that the old Soviet elite was a model of flexibility - they went from being Stalinists to social democrats to pure neoliberals in just a few years.

Doug



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