Interesting enough, the ultimate Kremlin insider Vladislav Surkov appears to agree...... (ref recent Spiegel interview).
--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> With a caveat about making parallels across cultural
> lines, the situation will be comparable when a US
> politician dies and there is a stampede at the
> funeral
> to see the Dead God, killing hundreds.
>
> As for Luke's point -- causally speaking, it's not
> so
> much that authoritarianism socialisms gave birth to
> Stalins as that Stalins gave birth to authoritarian
> socialisms.
>
> --- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > ^^^^
> >
> > CB: It wouldn't be weird times or strange guys if
> > they were Americans.
> > "Every" successful politician in U.S. history has
> > built a personality cult.
> > It's the American way. Personality cult =
> > Celebrity.
> >
> > Here's a picture of George Bush kissing bavies and
> > reading stories to
> > children while Washington burns.
> >
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