More from Isaiah

 "He does not crush the broken reed"

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In a deathly parallel,Stalin did not crush legitimate demands for social progress but he crushed unnecessary literary and political frivolity at great cost in terms of human life. Lives were taken at will by those around him. Stalin and those around him wanted to prevent an enemy or series of enemies arising from within and a world war that could easily have been avoided if he had been guided by a spirit of peace and reconciliation and compromise with the English and Americans earlier and not displayed Bolshevik insensitivity, Marxist brutality, psychological desensitisation and acts of open cruelty and political thick-wittedness. Thieves and criminals were locked up and anyone engaging in personal criticism was killed. Conspirators were shot.

Libraries, schools, hospitals, universities, railways and  railway stations and countless factories were built.

The 15-fold increase in industrial production between 1928 and 1943 enabled Russia to beat Germany roundly and that is something that Russia can not do today as regards either the US or Britain and their vassal states such as France and Germany.

Over-concentration on heavy industry, mirrored in China today, and political inflexibility does not detract from the unity and harmony created by Stalin.

14.12.2020

Like all thieves,Stalin had a very stable temperament but was wary of doppelgangers and lousy orators (even speechifiers like Lenin and Trotsky and similar parade-ground marshals).

Why then did he unleash spies and armed thugs on his opponents like Heath,Taylor, Craig and Blair?

Like the aforementioned he was paranoid about the legitimate opposition to his disastrous policies and would tolerate neither dissenting voices nor legally-binding decisions.

Labour and left-wing parties are full of people who take their orders from opposition spies and of political imposters who have no real connection to the working class..

Sic pereat altri mundi..

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With the 'walk in the woods' almost thirty-two years past,

Sic transit gloria mundi ...and Reagan must be judged in the eyes of history with other US leaders in politics and business as essentially no different than indulgence in the worst excesses of the Soviet Union committed against its own peoples.

The ultimate outcome of the breakdown of Communism?

Permanent war. Bush and Blair. They were the respectable faces of mass murder, famine,war and disease,the work of The Great Artificer.

Joseph Paul Mc Carroll