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To: combjelly who wrote (131017)	1/29/2001 9:55:26 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572468

As far as Stalin, maybe. But if you read www.stratfor.com, they at least were of the opinion that an apartment block with people in it was blown up (in Moscow?) by the government in an attempt to harden public opinion against Chechnya. In addition, the Russian government has yet to start to rebuild any of the destruction in that benighted republic, leaving many people still living in tents... CJ, From what I understand that kind of stuff happens in Russia fairly frequently but I don't know that the rumors are ever validated. I suppose its possible that the gov't blew up that building but who knows. I just think Stalin would have a harder time pulling off his sh*t now, then then. First back then, the world was preoccuppied with a depression and the growing power of Hitler.......it was easy to ignore Stalin and rumors coming out of Russia. Secondly, I think today this is a much smaller world....world opinion carries more weight. Maybe I am deceiving myself but it seems the excessive dictators, with maybe the exception of Hussein, are deposed more quickly. Plus much of the purging that Stalin did was in Siberia in relative isolation...today with modern telecommunication, Siberia is much less desolate and isolated from the world. Of course of this is pure speculation on my part. ted