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Originally Posted by OpieCunningham
It would be appreciated if you read the article that I linked to, which is the focal point of the discussion you are having with me.
Stalinist dictatorship - yes.
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I did. So you believe a Russian news-site as having the definitive right to describe the current regime? They use the word "Stalin" or "Stalinist" four times in the article. Once in the headline, once in a soundbyte and only twice in an informational sentence.
If you want to
really understand what it was like to live in a Stalinist state, I recommend you do some reading. The following four books (all of which I've read in the past year coincidentally) will begin to throw some light on the issue.
Gulag - A History by Anne Applebaum
Stalin - The Court of the Red Czar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Stasiland by Anna Funder (a book on the corrupt East German regime, another so called Stalinist state)
I also recommend many of the excellent biographies of Stalin, especially Koba the Dread - Laughter and the twenty million by Martin Amis.
Mr Mephisto