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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (63029)	5/3/2005 10:31:29 AM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

The intentions behind the actions were noble, at least among the vast majority of those who found communism attractive in the pre-WWII period. No doubt I would have been at least an advocate of socialism had I come of age in the 1910s or 20s. On the other hand, it's harder for me to understand those who defended Stalin after the purges, or Mao after the Cultural Revolution. My great-grandfather was a Thomas man, but then his other political choices were the GOP, which by the mid-20s had lost its motive force, succeeding only because of inertia and good times (but then we will never know whether Harding would have fought for his civil rights program, which would have abolished Jim Crow laws forty years ahead of schedule), or the Democratic Party, which in Indiana was controlled by the KKK.