All of which ended in 1953, not in the last 30 years.
----- Original Message ---- From: James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Sun, April 18, 2010 5:18:24 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] The end of Stalinism was a good thing (was Thatcherism)
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," ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk