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...trouble is that Georgians appear to be allergic to Communism as practiced by the more austere Slavs to the north. Georgians generally tend to behave as if they have already done enough for the cause by producing a son like Joseph Stalin for the Party...
Medvedev's pragmatic view does not come as all that much of a surprise. While Sakharov apparently no longer even considers himself a socialist, Medvedev remains a committed Marxist-Leninist. Even though he was expelled from the Party in 1969 for his writings about Stalin, he is respected both by dissidents and many orthodox Communists. Shortly after Medvedev's expulsion, Soviet authorities tried to have his twin brother, Zhores, a brilliant biologist, declared insane for writing a critical book about Stalin's crackpot geneticist, T.D. Lysenko...
...world. He turned to the task of building a strong Russia, hoping to make it a citadel against the imperial capitalist countries and a base for later revolutions. Gradually, the struggle to maintain a socialist state in a hostile world came to dominate much of Soviet policy. After Stalin ascended to the chairmanship of the Soviet Communist Party, he moved forcefully to obliterate the contradiction between an anti-imperialist socialist state's principles and the Soviet commitment to Russian interests. While still paying lip-service to anti-imperialist sentiments, he became head of a sprawling empire...
...When Stalin took over, the policy changed to one of tighter control, including reins on the practice of religion, on intellectual freedom and on economic organization. Once the borders in the area were solidified to Moscow's satisfaction, the Moslems' claims to self-determination took a backseat of the goal of strengthening the country's unity. After the Moslem areas were occupied by the Nazis in the Second World War, as many as a million Moslems were transported to settlements in Siberia as the Soviets adopted the ultimate imperialist weapon, genocide...
Near the end of the war, the Soviet aim of reuniting the old Tsarist empire accomplished, Stalin looked further afield. One by one, countries in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and choice areas of Asia (including parts of Mongolia, Manchuria and Japan) fell under Soviet domination. In some of these countries, genuine socialist revolutions may have taken place, albeit with the assistance of the powerful Soviet military machine. The eventual result, however, was the establishment, by 1948, of a far-flung Soviet sphere of influence which would have dazzled the Tsars...