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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (130429)	4/29/2004 9:40:04 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"Communism, it is now generally acknowledged, was a human calamity of a kind and on a scale never previously known. As a matter of ideology, all means were justified in pursuit of Communist ends, and this granted a license for criminality devoid of moral restraints. ... "This was the work of a very few men, and principal among them was Josef Stalin. Murderous autocrats are nothing new in history, but from the mid-'20s until his death in 1953, Stalin aimed for much more: the complete reordering of his own country, and the mobilization of the Communist movement against all who stood in his way internationally. Through a combination of unchecked power and personal strength of will, he was able to twist reality in pursuit of an inhuman and terrifying fantasy about mankind. ... "What made Stalin and his courtiers monsters was their common belief that good comes from doing evil." — David Pryce-Jones, writing on "Crimes of the Century," in Monday's issue of National Review