Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin entered the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia today in 1917.

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    10:04am | 10/11/10

    I demand an open thread for the 10/111/2010. This thread is so yesterday Read more »

  • Reg says:

    04:55am | 10/11/10

    Stephen if you have to ask, you prove the point of what we’ve been discussing about “free speech not being balanced by appropriate intellectual analysis.”  But, (and in my most condescending manner,) one should not sneer at a sincere attempt to seek enlightenment. It’s just that to do so here… Read more »

 

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Joseph Stalin died today in 1953 at the age of 74.

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  • Philip Crowley says:

    11:34am | 07/03/10

    So John A Neve, by extrapolation most communists are ‘screwed in the head’ and anyone with a working mind, ie. Trotsky, abandoned the philosophy? Read more »

  • Eric says:

    08:36am | 07/03/10

    Trotsky was a mass murderer, just like all the others. Look up the history of the Kronstadt rebellion. Your idol Che Guevara was a mass murderer too. Why is it that you defend killers and torturers and their ideology? Read more »

 

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