--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> >Of
> >course Stalin's proposition does provide the
> rationale for shooting
> >everyone involved in a losing battle.
That is an exaggeration. But he did post Special NKVD troops with machine huns behindthe lines to shoot deserters and runaways, and of course sent liberated POWs to Siberia.
>
> I think Uncle Joe said something like, "It takes a
> brave man to be a
> coward in my army."
>
> Doug
>
It worries me that you quote Uncle Joe so freely, Doug. next thing, you'll grow a moustache and smoke a pipe . . . .
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