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On Innocence

I was interested to read your comment:
"But don't worry, there's something you can do to protect yourself. Just remember the words of Josef Stalin: 'The innocent have nothing to fear.' "

Interested, because you mentioned Stalin, and because you suggest that innocence is a defence.

Of the 17 best estimates of the total number of victims of Stalin, the median is 30 million.
[see: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm#Stalin]

According to Anne Applebaum, in her book [GULAG: A History, for which she won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize] based on the recently released Soviet archive facts:
"The terror famine of the 1930s, in which Stalin killed more Ukrainians than Hitler murdered Jews"

At the time of the Moscow show trials, while Stalin arbitrarily condemned thousands of innocent Party members to camps, the playwright Bertolt Brecht told the philosopher Sidney Hook that "the more innocent they are, the more they deserve to die."

Oh, wait, maybe that was your point...

Posted by: Stephen Wheeler   Posted on: 10/13/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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