Friday, September 5, 2014

Tonight's Movie Is 'Stalin'


My Comment: It is hard to believe that this man ruled the Soviet Union for decades.
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9 comments:

James said...

Lovely man, worked very hard for the people you know. Was somewhat famous for staying up late to interview lucky individuals.

September 5, 2014 at 9:21 PM
War News Updates Editor said...

My father hated the guy James. The horror stories that I heard from people who suffered because of him .... and survived .... it would make your skin crawl. To put it bluntly .... to call him a paranoid psychopath would be an insult to all the paranoid psychopaths of the world.

September 5, 2014 at 10:57 PM
James said...

Yeah, I believe it. I was a little tongue in cheek. Many stories of tough military guys crapping in their pants at those infamous late night interviews.
What gets me is how smug the West is in the sense that so many think a "Stalin" could never happen here. Well one could in a heart beat.

September 5, 2014 at 11:11 PM
James said...

If I remember right, didn't he have a nickname... Koba?

September 5, 2014 at 11:12 PM
Rhaegar said...

Koba, i think you are right. I watched the movie in my summer holiday

September 6, 2014 at 6:57 AM
Unknown said...

It is hard to believe that Mao ruled China for decades.

There were much more competent people within the CCCP.

Both men built party within the party. Hitler and others have done the same.

Now we have to explain the mechanics of it with psychology and sociology or we get to repeat it ad naseum.

September 6, 2014 at 9:09 AM
Unknown said...

James,

If I hadn't known who we were talking about, I would have though you were talking about Mao.

September 6, 2014 at 9:10 AM
oldfatslow said...

It's been a lot of years
since I took History of
the Soviet Union with Dr.
Entner so I may not remember
the story correctly. But,
under Lenin, all the great
Bolshevik thinkers led the
Politburo, but Stalin wasn't
one of the bright guys and
was charged with staffing
the bureaucracy.

He filled it with mediocre
men who knew that their
jobs depended on him. When
Lenin died, he first schemed
to get the suspect Jew/Menchevik
Trotsky out of the way.

Once that was done, he
schemed with the hardliners
on the Poliburo to have the
NEPmen arrested. He replaced
them with his own creatures
and then had the hardliners
arrested.

Since they all believed that
the Party was infallible and
the Party had arrested them,
they figured they must be
guilty and freely confessed
to what they hadn't actually
done.

Moral of the story, it's
not always the ideologues
who are the danger, but the
scheming peasant failed
theology students always
are.

ofs

September 6, 2014 at 10:48 AM
James said...

That's pretty good ofs.

September 6, 2014 at 11:44 AM

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