Re: [Marxism] Deaths under Stalin

[Rohan Gaiswinkler <rohanger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To all on the list

It's probably a wasted effort trying to convince these completely 
unreconstructed Stalinists of the error of their ways.  Let them live in their 
fairy-tale, Uncle-Stalin-was-like-Santa-Clause wonderland if they want to, I 
say.  They are destined to take their religious devotion to Stalin to the 
grave, and we shall remain.

Rohan G


Lance Murdoch <lancemurdoch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:In terms of accusations against 
the USSR or Stalin, the only there
there I have ever seen is that a 1st Special Section of the Ministry
of Internal Affairs (MVD) summary, dated December 11, 1953 documents
681,692 executions occurring in 1937-1938. Aside from this, I don't
see much repression in the USSR.

This seems to be a list mostly of Trotskyists, so I doubt anyone would
dispute the above any more than NBC News would, although I'd be
interested in anyone disputing the accuracy of the report, or who
would be sympathetic to the circumstances surrounding the Great Purge.
Molotov in his old age said the Great Purge was necessary for the
survival of the Soviet Union in the face of the coming Nazi invasion,
and he was probably right.

In the end of course, Stalin's real crime was not 1937 and 1938
executions, but standing up to capitalism, fascism and imperialism.

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