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    Re: FIVE WARS IN ONE The Battle for Ukraine Archived Message

    Posted by Tomski on December 17, 2022, 4:48 pm, in reply to "FIVE WARS IN ONE The Battle for Ukraine"

    Thanks, just a couple of paras to illustrate why I didn't like her analysis. These influenced me not to read the remainder in detail:

    Although Moscow allowed Western troops into Vienna and Berlin, once the Truman Doctrine had been put into action, Stalin pushed through military-bureaucratic ‘revolutions from above’, crushing independent left forces and bequeathing ‘an ugly political legacy’ that would mark the post-war situation.

    Checked Ernest Mandel's page where he said this. Ernest is a bit of an ideologue, rather than a historian. To say: Stalin was … crushing independent left forces in this post WW2 arrangement is ludicrous. First, Stalin (let’s go along with him/her personalising this) was establishing a sphere of influence/control of buffer states. These states were mostly pro-nazi and have not had any substantial socialist sentiments. Best examples being Rumania and Bulgaria. Czechoslovakia and Poland were outlier from that perspective, since they got walloped by nazis, neither of whom have had any left-radical movements that I know of. There is no way that Stalin was crushing anything. He just didn’t allow West to manipulate these states. End of ..

    it is still unclear whether these were regime security forces or, as analysis of the forensic evidence suggests, hard-right militants from the protesters’ ranks.footnote7

    C’mon, they were Georgian mercenary snipers, West’s hired guns. Why does she not know this? Maybe someone needs to send her the links of interviews of the snipers (eyes roll).

    It's like the author sees these events as systems instead of actual events and people. Rant over ..

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