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"You couldn’t go to the kitchen, sit down on a chamber pot, have lunch or walk out onto the street without Stalin turning up behind you. All these.."
Sheila Fitzpatrick on the Russian literary scholar.
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"You couldn’t go to the kitchen, sit down on a chamber pot, have lunch or walk out onto the street without Stalin turning up behind you. All these.."
(Russia was also Hitler's ally until Stalin's fascist buddy turned on him in 1941.)
Takes something to make Mogg sound like voice of reason but here we are.
Rees-Mogg: “It was good vs. evil…We did the right thing…”
Tucker: “Has 🇬🇧 benefitted?”
RM: “We defeated Hitler… We’d all be speaking German…”
Tucker: “Who cares?” 🤔
(Russia was also Hitler's ally until Stalin's fascist buddy turned on him in 1941.)
Takes something to make Mogg sound like voice of reason but here we are.
Same with the Chinese CP.
Same with the Chinese CP.
"I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.” (1923)
Boris Bazhanov: The Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary (1992)
"I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.” (1923)
Boris Bazhanov: The Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary (1992)
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and there was alignment with the Stalinist state interest insofar as that extended beyond Stalin's material needs but it turns out that when you're The Guy you get to make the choice every plenipotentiary of a dictator must in that position. You cast a wide net. Really brutal shit
and there was alignment with the Stalinist state interest insofar as that extended beyond Stalin's material needs but it turns out that when you're The Guy you get to make the choice every plenipotentiary of a dictator must in that position. You cast a wide net. Really brutal shit
Hitler would have done it too, but most of them went along with the whole thing in the first place.
Hitler would have done it too, but most of them went along with the whole thing in the first place.
something dark happened that many people missed
he quoted the head of Stalin's secret police, Lavrentiy Beria
Beria was accused of SA against women, including minors
amazing work, Eric!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrent...
something dark happened that many people missed
he quoted the head of Stalin's secret police, Lavrentiy Beria
Beria was accused of SA against women, including minors
amazing work, Eric!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrent...