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Re: Soviet balance sheet

At 08:35 AM 3/28/98 -0800, Michael wrote:
>Also in the Balance Sheet, we might include Stalin's brutal, but
>relatively effective policy of suppressing/repressing ethnic hostilities.

I don't see how you'd put that in anything other than the minus column.
First off, it's hard to see how slaughtering or interning people is a plus.
 Second, this strategy was ultimately a failure:  once the repression
stopped, the old ethnic tensions flared right back up again.

Anders Schneiderman
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