by Carrol Cox Agreed, but that wasn't what Stalin said. (I'm going by memory here: I hope someone can find the exact quotation.) He talked about how the West had beaten "us" repeatedly through Russian history: i.e., the whole was in nationalist, not socialist, terms. The earlier defeats (and he names several) were not of socialist regimes but of Czarist regimes. And he speaks of _Russia_ being behind militarily, culturally, economically, and several other adverbs. He undoubtedly _could_ have written what Charles writes above, but he didn't.
Carrol ^^^ CB: Oh I missed that in what you said. What you say here supports Chris's position , I think. My thought is that he was using Russian national liberation sentiment to rally the people, in the way Fidel Castro refers to Jose Marti, or the Viet Namese were carrying out a national liberation struggle too, harking back to Chinese invasions for centuries.
