Christopher E. Doss Moscow, Russian Federation BTW, I would like to point out that a big reason that the Bolshies had problems with the Tsarist authorities was not just their politics, but the fact that they engaged in bank robbery, piracy, and extortion in order to finance their activities. When Stalin was heading "expropriation" in Baku, he was basically running the local mafia.
--- On Thu, 9/24/09, Marv Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
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Even the "conspiratorial" Bolsheviks,
> who equally had no
> illusions about "bourgeois democracy", struggled mightily
> for the rights
> which it conferred in order to come up from underground to
> fight openly
> for their program.
>
> I won't repeat myself again. If you don't understand my POV
> on the subject
> by this time, I'm certain others do and so I'll leave the
> last word to you.
>
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