Re: [Marxism] Deaths under Stalin

[steve heeren <tzsche@xxxxxxx>]

John:

this is a garbled email. it is not clear who wrote what - you or 
margolis.clarify, please

steve

John Rosso wrote:

> Deaths under Stalin
>
> *Eric Margolis of the Toronto Sun, *margolis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:margolis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> *a liberal columnist wrote 
> on **Dec 5, 2004**: Uncle Sam has his own gulag. Behaving like the 
> Soviet secret police won't make **America** safer:***
>
> * The Lubyanka Prison's heavy oak main door swung open. I went in, the 
> first western journalist to enter the KGB's notorious **Moscow** 
> headquarters -- a place so dreaded Russians dared not utter its name. 
> When they referred to it at all, they called it "Detsky Mir," after a 
> nearby toy store. ***
>
> *After interviewing two senior KGB generals, I explored the 
> fascinating **museum** of **Soviet** intelligence and was briefed on 
> special poisons and assassination weapons that left no traces. I sat 
> transfixed at the desk used by all the directors of Stalin's secret 
> police, on which the orders were signed to murder 30 million people.
> *
>
> However, Austin Murphy, in his book The Triumph of Evil, wrote:
>
> *While Stalin did indeed kill hundreds of thousands of people in the 
> 1930s, the first chapter of this book will document the circumstances 
> surrounding these killings and will demonstrate that the number was 
> substantially less than a million. Chapter 1 will also show many other 
> myths about **Eastern Europe**, communism, and its collapse to be untrue.
> *
>
>
> **
>
> *
> ^In the fanatical Reagan years the estimates were all over the map – 
> up to 60 million by one columnist, but has anyone seen any 
> documentation to support deaths by Stalin of over a million, let alone 
> Margolis's fanatical claim of 30 million death warrants being issued? *
>
> *^ JJRosso *
>
>
>
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