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Re: Query from a Venezuelan

>
> did the Russian working class support the Soviet
> state in 1936?
>
>

Overwhelmingly. Every report from the period indicates
incredible optimism, a heroic sense of pride in the
revolution, love for Stalin, the works. The
intelligentsia and the Old Bolsheviks had more complex
attitudes, but the working class were fanatical Soviet
patriots.

jks

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