[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 11/18/02 7:23:29 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Monster, butcher, mass murderer? I have an opinion about monsters in American history and previous to this history hundreds of years of extreme human depravity. You know in your heart that Stalin was a monster. O.K., I have not the time to unravel the constituent components of your heart, although it is a simply question that can be answered if you provided the raw data that traces your historical and political linkage.
Umm, in case you did not notice, I was defending Stalin on that particular issue - saying he made the best choice of those actually available to him; the other choices open to the Soviets at that point would have helped Hitler. As it happens Stalin was "Stallin" at a time wnen "Stallin" was the right thing to do. I mean was he supposed to take on Hitler without allies? Or let Hitler take all of Poland instead of half? He would have been an idiot not to have stalled at that point. He chose the least evil of the bad alternatives available in those circumsances.
As to Stalin being a mass murderer, a butcher a monster - I didn't know anyone still argued it. And I don't know why recogizing that Stalin was a monster would keep anyone from recognizing the monstrosity in U.S. Capitalism. I don't want to argue the point. I just want to note that someone who very anti-Stalin can recognize that he made the right choice in Poland.
