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To: Ilaine who wrote (40675)	8/28/2002 10:34:43 PM
From: SirRealist	Respond to of 281500

>>Stalin's atrocities have not entered into our common parlance<< As a boomer, I was well aware, but admittedly, it took college to cover it properly. Most pre-college history is exceedingly weak. As well, the foresight of some, like Gorbachev, was not properly rewarded within his own country. Of course, the Brits dumped Churchill, too.

To: Ilaine who wrote (40675)	8/29/2002 8:26:57 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I doubt very much that admitting to being a Stalinist would get fond laughter at a dinner party It would among the French socialists, and possibly among other European socialists for that matter. There really is a double standard concerning Communism and Nazism. Communist sympathizers the world over have profited from the mere existence of Nazi Germany as something to be outraged over, while sponging over the seemingly endless stream of bestial Communist regimes that have existed over the course of the 20'th century. Just look at the treatment of Pinochet versus Castro; no communist leader would ever be subject to the treatment Pinochet was served in Europe, and in fact Castro was welcomed with open arms. I personally put Communism and Nazism in the same class without any hesitation - the class of murderous totalitarian ideologies. It just proves you can fool a lot of the people all the time. The economist Joseph Schumpeter remarked at the very start of the Bolchevik revolution how it would the perfect lab experiment, accompanied with mountains of cadavers, and would demonstrate to the world what a fraud the ideology was. He was mistaken because the world didn't learn a thing, and the Big Lie will continue for some time how the failure of one Communist regime after another had nothing to do with the underlying ideology.