-Caveat Lector- Did Stalin Really Say That Thing About Votes? <http://slate.msn.com/code/explainer/explainer.asp?Show=12/13/2000&idMessage=6678> By Emily Yoffe Posted Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2000 Perhaps your e-mail box has already received this spam alleging that Stalin once said, "It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes"? Slate's own Anne Applebaum cited it yesterday. But did Joe really say it? Almost certainly, no. Let's just say Joseph Stalin is not known to have waxed forth on the nature of voting and was singularly unconcerned with elections. Well, there was that time in 1936 when the central committee of the Communist Party gave three more votes to a Stalin opponent than to Stalin. Within three years, two-thirds of the members had been murdered. For an alternative remark on voting, here's a documented one (from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations) by Tammany Hall boss William Marcy Tweed: "As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?" ---- Explainer thanks Uri Ra'anan of the Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy at Boston University. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
