These weer not deliberate and ruthless attempts at annihilation for profit - whatever they were. Stalin went to war against his party, largely with the backing of the people Mao forced through the modernisation of a totally impoverished semi-feudal country at a pace they could not handle, also with the backing of the people Neither was profiteering which bothe the Kaisers and Leopold's was I don't wish to create a diversion with this, nor do I wish to condone the demands made Jim Carroll
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