Charles Brown wrote: > > > CB: If they hadn't been doing something that was building socialism > some kind of threat to capitalism , they wouldn't have been in such imminent > danger of being "defeated again". The reason imperialism was especially > focussed on invading and conquering the SU is that they were building > socialism, however flawed.
Agreed, but that wasn't what Stalin said. (I'm going by memory here: I hope someone can find the exact quotation.) He talked about how the West had beaten "us" repeatedly through Russian history: i.e., the whole was in nationalist, not socialist, terms. The earlier defeats (and he names several) were not of socialist regimes but of Czarist regimes. And he speaks of _Russia_ being behind militarily, culturally, economically, and several other adverbs. He undoubtedly _could_ have written what Charles writes above, but he didn't. Carrol
