[lbo-talk] The end of Stalinism was a good thing (was Thatcherism)

[James Heartfield]

Chris Doss objected when I included among a list of positive advances: 'The last thirty years have seen the end of Stalinism in the East'

But then, as Russia's Vladimir Putin says:

"Our people, who endured the horrors of the civil war, forced collectivization, and the mass repressions of the 1930s, understand very well -- perhaps better than anybody else -- what [execution sites] like Katyn, Mednaya, Pyatikhatka mean to many Polish families, because this sad list includes sites of mass executions of Soviet citizens too,"