It is interesting isn't it. Lenin is remembered as a nihilistic destroyer (like Yeltsin?), while Stalin has found a place in mass consciousness as Ruthlessly Cruel Defender of the Fatherland. Lenin destroyed a great power; while Stalin built a great power. (Hey, ike Yeltsin/Putin again.)
AM NOT GOING TO GET INTO ANOTHER STALIN CONVERSATION!!!!
--- Peter Lavelle <untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Chris enjoy the drink and best to you tomorrow
> (afternoon).
>
> I agree with Chris, Nicholas is better to remember
> than Lenin. Lenin, by the way, is fading like a
> northen light here - thank God!
>
> Lenin was a beast and hateful murderer.
>
> Stalin is a very different question. The peoples of
> the Soviet Union defeated Hitler - with or without
> Stalin's "help." When Russians can agree on this, a
> healthly Russian nationalism will come into place.
>
> --- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > --- Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
> > Yoshie wrote (in response to our resident
> Menshevik
> > sympathizer
> > with the cult of Saint Nicholas The Bloody):
> >
> > --
> >
> > You are referring to 70% of the Russian
> population?
> >
> > Many Russians are Stalinophiles, not Leninophiles.
> > Lenin didn't do shit. Stalin defeated an enormous
> > army.
> >
> > If Nicholas was bloody, what was Lenin? Drapped in
> > eviscerated intestines?
> >
> > Nu, zayats, pogodi!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> ____________________________________________________
> >
> > Yahoo! Sports
> > Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy
> Football
> >
> > http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com
> > ___________________________________
> >
>
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
> >
>
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam
> protection around
> http://mail.yahoo.com
> ___________________________________
>
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com