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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (478037)	10/19/2003 5:59:08 AM
From: A. Geiche	Respond to of 769670

Emile, the STALIN story is most sordidly distorted. Yes, there were bloodiest repression, but behind them were Trotskists and Western spies. Some of the latter managed to get to the very top of Soviet government. Beria, for example, a British agent, the Minister of State Security(!!), arrested and executed only in about 1957. In preparation for the war, the German intelligence performed true wonders in this regard, artfully incriminating best Soviet scientists, military leaders, etc. Remember, at that time, only Germany maintained "normal" relation with the USSR (US recognized USSR in 1940 only), and Germans had quite free access to Soviet Union. I knew some victims of "Stalin repressions", who suffered a lot, but all they maintained that in that hellishly messy and difficult situation those repressive actions were necessary and were carried on in most rationale and humane way. For example, it was the Stalin's dead, the relocation, after the WW2, of Crimean Tartars to other parts of USSR, such as Moscow Region (it is strange, but most Tartars were relocated there). The same he did with Chechens. And that was a right solution to extremely painful problems.Actually, it was to their advantage. They were moved to culturally and economically more advanced areas. During the war, and actually all the time, they were a terrible trouble. Stupid Khrushev returned then Chechens to Chechnia -- and it became even more troublesome, as you know. All those brainwashed jackals who are howling about the millions killed by Stalin, count these Chechens, Tartars and the "kulaks" within those "millions." Yes, Stalin was an advocate of "collectivization" also ("Kolkhozes," etc.), but he struggled quite strenously against abussess with it. "Kulaks," were eventually "dispossessed as the class of exploiters," but wrong this was or right, they were not extrerminated, but relocated. Without that it was impossible to carry on any humane and modernization programs in the rural areas: they were killing teachers, doctors, engineers etc. english.pravda.ru