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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
It is when you post like this that you are at your most offensive.
[I'd say, any other comments, pro or con?]
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To be fair, this was the reaction of the hard-core neo-socialists here back then as word of the excesses (like, the first eight million were just statistics, but the REST, you know, was excess . . .) filtered out. There was a lot of support voiced for the humanitarian system of socialism, and Stalin was initially framed as the benevolent father of that meritorious movement, and thus a lot of resistance to the idea that he might be . . . ya know . . . icky.
I think the NYT still hangs a Pulitzer devoted to this theme.
