Jim:

Wow- Just. Wow.

So the Ukraine famine was due to potato blight? Just the same? And Ukrainians were able to migrate to America to save a portion of their number?

Jim. You need some time for reflection. No argument from me can save you. You are way down the looking glass. Way Way Down.

I remember being on a Soviet train listening to a story about Stalin being interviewed about the cost of collectivization. Stalin held up ten fingers. Each finger was a million dead. Sure that's just a story. But the casual cruelty of the Soviet system over generations is not undocumented. Your post above is not materially different than denying the Holocaust.

In an earlier post in the thread above the line about Stalin folksongs I believe you referred to Khruschev's revelation of Stalin's crimes. Are you denying that in this thread?

You seem to think that declaring Stalin an enemy of the left will somehow balance things. Stalin had ANYONE who he felt was a threat done away with by one means or another.

Until you make room in your historical closet for monsters, you cannot capture the Kremlin mountaineer nor what he did to his country and his people, and a lot of other countries and their people, including ours.