Re: [Marxism] Deaths under Stalin

[Lance Murdoch <lancemurdoch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 02:37:43 EST, Octob1917@xxxxxxx <Octob1917@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Whilst I agree with you that Stalin has been demonised by the West for mainly
> political purposes, there is no disputing his role in the betrayal of the
> Chinese in 1927, his nefarious role in the Spanish Civil War and his betrayal 
> of
> Greek revolutionaries at the end of the Second World War. Stalin was no
> socialist or communist, in my view, rather he was a nationalist. His use of 
> the
> Comintern as an instrument of Soviet foreign policy rather than international
> socialism betrays this, as does his bloody purge of Trotsky and his followers.

What did Trotsky's bloody suppression of the Kronstadt Soviet betray?
I find it none to ironic that after the defeat of the last soviet
calling for socialism, capitalism was reintroduced in Russia (the
NEP).  I wouldn't equate Greece with Spain either, what happened in
Spain was much worse.

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