Re: Stalin, democrat
Peter Lavelle wrote:
Putin is on the record saying: “the outrageous price our country and people had to paid for that Bolshevist experiment” or calls communism a “road to a blind alley.”
That’s what he says now. What was he saying when he was in the KGB?
Boris Kagarlitsky said years ago that the old Soviet elite was a model of flexibility - they went from being Stalinists to social democrats to pure neoliberals in just a few years.
Doug