And just to prove that the USA does not have a lock on historical irrationality, seems that the kids in Moscow think Uncle Joe was, well, you know, like…radical.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's youths admire Soviet dictator Josef Stalin -- who presided over the deaths of millions of people -- and want to kick immigrants out of Russia, according to a poll released on Wednesday. The poll, carried out by the Yuri Levada Centre, was presented by two U.S. academics who called it "The Putin Generation: the political views of Russia's youth". When asked if Stalin was a wise leader, half of the 1,802 respondents, aged from 16 to 19, agreed he was. "Fifty-four percent agreed that Stalin did more good than bad," said Theodore Gerber, a sociologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Forty-six percent disagreed with the statement that Stalin was a cruel tyrant." Stalin, who took over from Vladimir Lenin, built a system of terror and repression in which tens millions of people died or were killed. He died in 1953. (For the rest of the story.)
The secret word is Bolshevik
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Yes, racism and nationalism are on the rise because nobody understands that declining incomes and social services are a result of Nixon't dismantling the Breton-Woods economic system of FDR. Do they like Sartre, too??
Sarte? Beats me comrade. But I'm still rather proud to have now had four books translated into Russian -- "Jim Morrison's Adventures In The Afterlife" and "The DNA Cowboys Trilogy."
Trotsky was the good one . . . Marx couldn't work in an agrarian society like Russia was. Of course, the "capitalist" West tried to strangle the new state, just as the Great Powers of Europe did with the French Revolution, and a dictatorship has an advantage in war. We're no better than anybody in the US--we got Bush in 2000 (sad, sad day). ;(
speaking of Morrison - what about that new book published by the owner of an old paris rock 'n' roll club where he writes that jimbo died sitting in the crapper, head and arms down, blood and puke on his face. heroin overdose while snorting. he then says that the 2 dealers who sold him the H took the body back to the apartment and placed him in the bathtub like the poet he would have liked to be.
i much preffer this version. Toilet fat elvis meets paris heroine death cult in a rock n roll paris nightclub.
why not?
that's more like the poet he was.
Illegitimate son of a rock and roll star
MH
where better to read it then in USA Today?
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-07-11-morrison-questions_N.htm
Morrison was a great poet--not quite Yeats or Plath, but up there for the 20th century.
Great lines make great poets . . .
"Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of God / Wandering, wandering in hopeless night."
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