[lbo-talk] Hamas "a project of Shin Bet" (was: Hezbollah vs IDF)

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 16 08:08:07 PDT 2006


Andy F:

On 10/16/06, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Stalin's posthumous rep keeps going up and up while
> Lenin's goes down and down.

Any guesses why?

-- Andy

A couple of reasons.

1. Lenin, like Yeltsin, is viewed as a destroyer who didn't build anything. Whereas Stalin (like Putin) built (is building) something.

2. Soviet people had a very whitewashed version of Bolshevik history, so hearing that, e.g., Lenin ordered mass executions ar whatever is very shocking to them. They already knew all that about Stalin. ;)

Stalin's popularity has always been pretty high, despite the Secret Speech and 50 years of anti-Stalin government statements and activity. In 1956, there were huge pro-Stalin riots in Georgia after the Secret Speech that left several people dead.

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