"Donuel "
If you are at a loss to provide proof one way or the other, a bit of common sense might do the trick
The Russian army walked away from the front in 1917, joined up with the workers and peasants, overthrew the Emperor and eventually executed him and his family as a confirmation that there was no going back
They fought off a counter-revolution, opposing 14 Western armies, united an entire Empire under one flag and eventually embarked on what they were still calling "the Great Patriotic War' when I visited there in 1964, during which they sacrificed 8,806,453 dead and 22,610,148 wounded
Are you honestly claiming that such people would stand by and say nothing while 43 Million of their number were massacred?
That would not take a dictator, it would take a mass-mesmerist.
I have watched newsreels of Stalin down the years and each time it has struck me "how could such an innocuous little man have done what it is claimed he did?
Unlike Hitler, he had the personality of a slice of stale bread, yet he has gone down as on of the most internationally adored leaders in world history.
Where the Russians really such a stupidly passive people?
The Russians we met still had a sneaky respect for him despite Khrushchev's revelations in 1956
C'mon. give us a break!
"I've challenged everything you've said"
Let him stew in his own juice Steve - oxygen of publicity and all that
Jim Carroll