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Subject: Re: Why the heck do Russians admire Stalin?
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"Dave Smith" <adavid.sm...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message 
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> On 19/04/2012 11:15 AM, simplicity wrote:
> ators. Look how popular the non-communist Putin is. I miss Gorbey.
>>>
>>> I have known a few Russians over the years and they all gave me the
>>> impression that the problems of the Stalin era may not have been
>>> entirely due to Stalin or the communists,but something in the Russian
>>> character.  They tend to be weird people. The communist revolution in
>>> Russia is another example of revolutions where one cruel and oppressive
>>> regime is replaced by another cruel and oppressive regime.
>>
>> Question for the sake of clarification: what "cruel and oppressive
>> regime" was replaced by Bolshevics "revolution"?
>
> Apparently a lot of Russians felt that they were oppressed, since a lot of them rose up in 
> revolt. The Bolsheviks were only one of a number of factions at the forefront of the 
> revolution. A lot of Russians had previously fled to the US to escape the oppression.