In Reply to: Don't mind tinear. He's AA's resident apologist for commies and Islamic terrorists ... posted by MMasztal on June 24, 2007 at 11:57:03:
... but you will find few who think Stalin was actually left wing at all.
He was an opportunist totalitarian.
And a hideously effective one.
After the second world war, which as an aside, it can reasonably be argued, the USSR was the single most important part of the defeat of Hitler, achieved at a hideous domestic cost to the USSR, it wasn't just the atomic scientists whom were chopped between the USSR and the USA, it was also the marketeers and philosophies.
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