tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post6622363686664212371..comments2024-02-26T00:59:26.907-08:00Comments on Ana the Imp: The Prophet IrrelevantAnastasia F-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-30190802853172791992010-11-28T15:34:38.949-08:002010-11-28T15:34:38.949-08:00Anthony, thanks so much for this. I'm more th...Anthony, thanks so much for this. I'm more than a little intrigued. History is the key to so much, past and present.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-40794879344328894722010-11-28T15:34:12.622-08:002010-11-28T15:34:12.622-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-86539062217478841432010-11-28T15:33:29.014-08:002010-11-28T15:33:29.014-08:00Adam, the roundhead aspect to the Thatcher legacy ...Adam, the roundhead aspect to the Thatcher legacy is something I intend to tackle...soon. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-39591447538181058522010-11-27T08:12:21.018-08:002010-11-27T08:12:21.018-08:00History Channel 4 part series - Stalin the Myth Fr...History Channel 4 part series - Stalin the Myth Fri, oct,23,2009...http://Rapidshare.com/files/1529515691/History.Channel.Stalin.the.Myth.PD TV.XviD-ingot.part1.rar /15299540281/pt2 /152956410/pt3 /152949357/pt4 I hope this helps. History is good in that it helps to know what issues were faced by society and what resolutions were found and mistakes made. Do not dwell so much in the past (MGON) that you loose focus on present events as decisions made now will have a profound effect on the future.anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-77284163467260581942010-11-25T01:05:01.943-08:002010-11-25T01:05:01.943-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-4009801808371976862010-11-25T00:19:19.552-08:002010-11-25T00:19:19.552-08:00Ironically Thatcher was personally appalled by the...Ironically Thatcher was personally appalled by the excesses her Government allowed amongst the public; she was something of a roundhead herself. Mind you I used to by a consuming cavalier too, then I realised life is too horrible to merit such pass times.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-47763282792344347982010-11-25T00:17:47.211-08:002010-11-25T00:17:47.211-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-58383593184314963132010-11-25T00:14:54.433-08:002010-11-25T00:14:54.433-08:00That's far too cynical a view: people can make...That's far too cynical a view: people can make sacrifices, even so far as their lives, for greater and nobler causes. But when it comes down to everyday life we just want a degree of comfort, to be left to get on with things as best we can, to spend our money in the way that we think it should be spent, which I do not believe is reducible in every instance to 'wicked avirice'. Or, if it is, I would rather have wicked avarice than the 'virtue' of Stalin or Trotsky or Mao. I think you may very well be able to live on bread and water. I, on the other hand, need cocaine and caviar. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-75158723979022211372010-11-24T17:15:32.761-08:002010-11-24T17:15:32.761-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-77527578122833945052010-11-24T17:12:21.917-08:002010-11-24T17:12:21.917-08:00Healty consumer demand means a healthy economy, si...Healty consumer demand means a healthy economy, simply because it's the most efficient way of sending signals and chanelling resources. One may not be able to live on bread alone but when all one has is iron and steel and rusty old plant then things truly are terminal!Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-75864152976432285482010-11-24T17:05:04.322-08:002010-11-24T17:05:04.322-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-76779499466887470992010-11-24T17:04:02.274-08:002010-11-24T17:04:02.274-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-57940869789841795552010-11-24T17:02:25.624-08:002010-11-24T17:02:25.624-08:00No, industry not before all else; that only happen...No, industry not before all else; that only happens in planned economies, and planned economies, for all their short term successes, are long-term disasters, especially where consumer demand is depressed. There is no communist ideology in China; it has all given way to a new emphasis on Confucism.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-87700698461673777202010-11-24T16:51:53.160-08:002010-11-24T16:51:53.160-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-55785625611989585022010-11-24T16:37:28.882-08:002010-11-24T16:37:28.882-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-49693195671611227762010-11-24T16:35:19.691-08:002010-11-24T16:35:19.691-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-49170314991740747272010-11-24T16:32:09.115-08:002010-11-24T16:32:09.115-08:00The shabby reality of Stalin’s Russia, tottering o...The shabby reality of Stalin’s Russia, tottering on the verge of yet another purge at the time of his death, this time with all the overtones of a pogrom, was not the ‘better future’ envisaged by the early exponents of Russian Marxism. Stalin’s one-sided and top-heavy industrial programme created massive consumer shortages throughout the economy, particularly in housing, shortages which were never made good. It also created bureaucratic stupidity resting on a total lack of personal initiative, another thing which was to lead to the eventual collapse of the whole rotten system. Chinese communists have had the good sense to abandon communism. The Russians carried it like an albatross to the end.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-51693649403359848222010-11-24T16:11:12.412-08:002010-11-24T16:11:12.412-08:00By the way, I should like to say, Stalin did not w...By the way, I should like to say, Stalin did not worship power, it <i> was</i> power.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-91646209090795486672010-11-24T16:08:34.063-08:002010-11-24T16:08:34.063-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-61404790012628997922010-11-24T15:57:10.264-08:002010-11-24T15:57:10.264-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-39352686132370188972010-11-24T15:52:17.576-08:002010-11-24T15:52:17.576-08:00Anthony, thanks for that, something for me to look...Anthony, thanks for that, something for me to look into.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-62120086839944209542010-11-24T15:50:51.066-08:002010-11-24T15:50:51.066-08:00There was nothing the least bit ‘impassioned’ abou...There was nothing the least bit ‘impassioned’ about Trotsky; it simply wasn’t in his nature. His writings all show evidence of a sober and calculating intellect. During the early years of power, as I have already said, he was as calculating and as pragmatic as anyone else in the Bolshevik leadership. There is absolutely no reason to suppose that he would not have continued in this vein, as notions of permanent revolution proved ever more elusive. He was certainly right in criticising the policy being pursued by Bukharin and Stalin in China.<br /><br />In the final analysis the Soviet State, for all of the realpolitik and pragmatism of Stalin, was based on an ideal, that there was a better future being worked towards, that a better future was achievable. It may have worshiped power but the foundations were ideology, an ideology that Stalin projected and pursued. But his cynicism, his brutality, the thuggishness of his regime made a mockery of the ideal. Bit by bit the monster he created was destroyed by, to use the Marxist expression, its own internal contradictions.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-63948089881890373482010-11-24T15:27:45.210-08:002010-11-24T15:27:45.210-08:00news.bbc.co.uk/2hi/europe/2793501.stm The docume...news.bbc.co.uk/2hi/europe/2793501.stm The documentary the last mystery of Stalin BBC radio4 on monday,24 feb,2000 GMT by Leonida Kruselnycky. I believe the discovery channel also ran a documentary. Also someone confirmed this with Rus intel connections but this I can not substantiate. It seems like his bodygaurds were told to stand down at last minute which was unusual procedure like when they set up JFK.anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-77151253131555535742010-11-24T00:23:45.211-08:002010-11-24T00:23:45.211-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-6450264247743701382010-11-24T00:22:02.884-08:002010-11-24T00:22:02.884-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.com