On Apr 18, 2010, at 9:18 AM, James Heartfield wrote:
> 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'
>
An advance certainly, but a *negative* one.
> 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,"
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos