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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (110213)12/17/2007 11:53:13 AM
From: Knighty Tin  Respond to of 132070
 
Skeets, If you are talking about "Smiley's People," yes I've seen it and think Alec Guiness was great in it. However, you have to watch "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" first for it to make any sense.

Lenin had a philosophy at the start, but power got to him. Stalin was always nothing but a tough dictator. If he hadn't killed all of his best generals during the 30s, WWII might have been much shorter. Kruschev wanted to be Stalin, but wasn't bright enough. Brezhnev was smart, but also ruthless. I don't know where Putin fits in. He looks more Stalin than Yeltsin or Gorbachev to me.