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...system was designed to get families to betray one another," Kramer said. "Stalin was actually removed from the Politburo [the ruling body of the central committee of the Communist party] before he died...
Harvard students interested in the inner-workings of the KGB or the last days of Stalin now have an invaluable new resource...
...with plans to cut Chechnya's electricity supply. More alarming, perhaps, is Putin's announcement on Monday that the refugees will be resettled in those parts of Chechnya now under Russian control. After all, the last Russian leader to move whole populations around the Caucasus like chess pieces was Stalin...
...Orwell wrote a simple beast fable about a revolution devolving from idealism ("All animals are equal") to oppression ("...but some animals are more equal than others"). It's a sign of Animal Farm's power that it has never been wholly palatable. During World War II, the manuscript--painting Stalin as the (literally) piggish dictator who co-opts a barnyard revolution against humans--spooked publishers because the Soviets were allies against the Nazis. By the time an animated film was made, in 1955, the tale wasn't anti-pinko enough, so a propagandistic anti-swine uprising was added. The cold...
...consorting with Stalin-esque killers in Kosovo? Quite possibly, according to allegations published Friday by the New York Times. Citing current and former commanders of the Kosovo Liberation Army as well as Albanian government officials, the Times reports that KLA leader Hashem Thaci and two of his lieutenants allegedly directed a purge in which as many as six rival commanders were shot dead in a bitter struggle for control of the organization. Thaci has denied the allegations. Of course, such skulduggery might be par for the course in guerrilla movements, but the KLA has been implicitly anointed as Washington...