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

[C. G. Estabrook]

Surely part of that was the active policy of the Clinton administration 
to reduce Russia to the status of a third-world country.

Chris Doss wrote:
> I assumed that what was being referenced was the collapse of the
> USSR, which led to mass impoverishment of millions of people and no
> less than 10 civil wars (10!!). Russia itself just made it back up to
> the GDP 1989 level of the RSFSR in 2007. That's two decades lost.
> Hell you could almost certainly chalk the wars in the former
> Yugoslavia up it to.
> 
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> 
> ----- Original Message ---- From: James Heartfield
> <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Sun,
> April 18, 2010 5:48:52 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] The end of Stalinism
> was a good thing (was Thatcherism)
> 
> well, if you think that Stalinism ended in 1953, it is hard to see
> what you object to in the proposition that its ending in the last 30
> years was a good thing, apart from historical innacuracy
>