Stalin: History & Critique of a Black Legend w/ Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro & David Peat
Guerrilla History
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The State and the Ideology of Stalin
David Frum: The point of the state is really the history of the nation of an ideological construct with respect to Stalin, or using Stalin as an ideological construct to undermine communist movements. It's not saying Stalin did not do bad things and what Stalin did was either one justified or two, not as bad as the West,. But it is useful to have that as a component of the analysis when talking about Ukraine. He says there were internal pressures that were acting that made what unfolded unfold in the way at which it did.
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