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  1. kowalskil

    An American professor defends Stalin

    The message below has been posted at our university forum. The author once accused me of spreading cold war propaganda (referring to my two books). Ludwik Kowalski, author of "Diary of a Former Communist" Former Communist: Thoughts, Feelings, Reality =================================...
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    Was Josef Stalin defamed by the western media?

    From the Stalin Society: "In this world we live in, who can avoid hearing the terrible stories of suspected death and murders in the gulag labour camps of the Soviet Union? Who can avoid the stories of the millions who starved to death and the millions of oppositionists executed in the Soviet...
  3. kowalskil

    Trying to understand Stalin

    How did Stalin manage to outmaneuver so many After reading an interesting, and rather unique, book about Stalin, I just posted a very short review of it, at the Amazon?s website. Here it is, for those who might be interested: I agree with those who wrote that Montefiore's voluminous...
  4. kowalskil

    Russia today: two puzzles

    How to explain this? The 70th anniversary of the German attack on the Soviet Union was on June 21. On that occasion I visited many Russian websites. What a surprise to find that both communists and anticommunists glorify Stalin in today's Russia. Communists remember him as a great...
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