From: jbm7-AT-tutor.open.ac.uk (Jim Monaghan) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:52:52 -0000 Subject: M-G: Reading Books and Stalinism So some plotters were going to kill Yezhov. Since he later was shown to be one of the plotters they must have been a fairly useless lot Paranoia is justifiable if you are right, this does not say much for any state that there is no mechanism to controll an insane leader no matter how great his services might have been.75% + of the delegates to the 1934 Congress, where there were few or none left or right oppositionists were purged.Surely they had a majority . As the childrens story goes you need Democracy so someone will have the guts to say the Emperor has no clothes, otherwise the crawlers etc will do nothing but tell lies. This explains in part the really abysmal economic situation in the eastern bloc before the wall came down I presume our stalinists probably think they live off the fat of the land in North Korea. The safest place for veterans of the International Brigades of Spain in the early fifties was paradoxically the West because of the paranoid purges in the East. Jim Monaghan --- from list marxism-general-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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