[PEN-L:32418] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hi Joanne- re 2WW - I almost forgot

[Waistline2@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 11/20/02 3:53:26 PM Pacific Standard Time, lipowg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> Waistline2@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >In a message dated 11/18/02 7:23:29 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
> >lipowg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> >
> >
> >Monster, butcher, mass murderer?  I have an opinion about monsters in 
> >American history and previous to this history hundreds of years of 
> >extreme human depravity. You know in your heart that Stalin was a 
> >monster. O.K., I have not the time to unravel the constituent components 
> >of your heart, although it is a simply question that can be answered if 
> >you provided the raw data that traces your historical and political 
> >linkage.
> >
>
>
> Umm, in case you did not notice, I was defending Stalin on that 
> particular issue - saying he made the best choice of those actually 
> available to him; the other choices open to the Soviets at that point 
> would have helped Hitler. As it happens Stalin was "Stallin" at a time 
> wnen "Stallin" was the right thing to do. I mean was he supposed to take 
> on Hitler without allies? Or let Hitler take all of Poland instead of 
> half? He would have been an idiot not to have stalled at that point. He 
> chose the least evil of the bad alternatives available in those 
> circumsances.
>
> As to Stalin being a mass murderer, a butcher a monster - I didn't know 
> anyone still argued it.  And I don't know why recogizing that Stalin was 
> a monster would keep anyone from recognizing the monstrosity in U.S. 
> Capitalism. I don't want to argue the point. I just want to note that 
> someone who very anti-Stalin can recognize that he made the right choice 
> in Poland.


Acknowledged and read. 


Melvin P.