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...STALIN'S DINNERS IN THE KREMLIN went on all night. he would sit at a long table and force his ministers and cronies to drink, hour after hour, while he plotted and probed and flattered and terrified them. At dawn, when their brains were numb with fear and vodka and confusion, the NKVD might lead one or two of the men away, without explanation, to be shot. That was the physics of paranoia under laboratory conditions: for every action, an opposite (if, in the Kremlin, somewhat unequal) reaction. Paranoia induces paranoia. Stalin refracted violent fear through alcohol, then presided over...
...Western and pan-Slavic ideologues. This is not something completely new for communists. Even in the heyday of Soviet power, there were two tendencies in the leadership. The internationalist wing of the party put Marxist revolutionary goals above Soviet national interests. The opposing "statist" group--followers and admirers of Stalin--put Russia first. So do they...
Buchanan's appeal on economic issues is rational, if simplistic. It is his language in other parts of the field that is scurrilous. In waging the culture wars, he introduces a hateful ethnic dimension. Almost all the 20th century's horrors (the slaughter of the Armenians, Stalin's starvation of the Ukrainian kulaks, the Hitler Holocaust) have begun with a demonization of others. Buchanan has a genius for techniques that bundle his enemies together and subtly satanize them. His litany of Jewish villain names (ticking off "Goldman, Sachs...Greenspan" as if they were the Elders of Zion) is slyly anti...
...certainly does not sound like Marxist-Leninism. But there is more. The party's official program looks back longingly to Yuri Andropov, a former kgb chief and Soviet party head from 1982 to 1984, crediting him somehow with establishing "freedom of speech and freedom of political associations." As for Stalin's purges and Gulag and the corruption of the Brezhnev era, they were "mistakes" to be avoided in the future, Zyuganov says...
...mourn the assassination of Rabin, the Oklahoma City bombings, and the election of Hitler to power while at the same time writing that "Countries ought to take preemptive measures against those who abuse freedom of speech." Such a statement sounds suspiciously like the philosophy of a Hitler or a Stalin--the very kind of people Ben-Shachar seeks to ban in his free society...