[lbo-talk] Re: stalin worship

frank scott frank at marin.cc.ca.us
Mon Jan 10 17:56:17 PST 2005


plenty of people in the soviet union had good reason to fear or hate stalin, but far more, (far, far more) who were not critical or oppositional party members or other movers and shakers - in other words, the overwhelming majority - could love him for what "he" brought to their lives: victory over the nazis, a higher standard of living ,a sense of national pride...

it's almost natural that after the fact of any regime - when it is gone, has been defeated, whatever - that people will claim to have hated it, loathed it, despised the great leader...mostly, that's bullshit...especially when they tell it to foreigners who want, sometimes desperately, to hear just that, as in: we did the right thing in killing all those people in order to destroy that awful person...

same is true for the saddamites, who would have us believe that the entire nation was beaten, jailed,or murdered...what's amazing is that these foreign monster-demon-satanic, really almost comic book figures , leave behind any living people at all...

fs



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