Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 18:31:03 +0000
From: Antonio Mota <motant-AT-geocities.com>
Subject: M-I: An anti-stalinist on Stalin


I was already a confirmed anti-Stalinist at the age of seventeen ....
The idea of killing Stalin filled my thoughts and feelings ....
We studied the `technical' possibilities of an attack .... We even
practiced. 

If they had condemned me to death in 1939, their decision would have
been just. I had made up a plan to kill Stalin; wasn't
that a crime? 

When Stalin was still alive, I saw things differently, but as I look
back over this century, I can state that Stalin was the
greatest individual of this century, the greatest political genius. To
adopt a scientific attitude about someone is quite different
>from one's personal attitude. Alexander Zinoviev,  1993 

  . 

Alexander Zinoviev,  Les confessions d'un homme en trop (Paris: Olivier
Orban, 1990), pp. 104, 188, 120. Humo
interview, 25 February 1993, pp. 48--49.



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