None of what I say is a sober hard-nosed assessment. I am stating my opinions which are rooted in my own biases and understanding of facts, which include being certifiably mad about the CPCs foreign policy from 1960 until now.
But when I speak of mean words, I speak of the contrast between Dengs repudiation of the cultural revolution with Khruschchev’s secret speech, an often used example of how Khruschchev is bad and Deng is not.
Beria was no killed in a secret trial by mean words
I will shed no tears for Beria.
Everyone from Molotov to Malenkov agreed to.kill the bastard. Unless your contention is that he was the only good member of the politburo and every single accusation and every single testimony about his plans are lies, he clearly made his own bed.
None of what I say is a sober hard-nosed assessment. I am stating my opinions which are rooted in my own biases and understanding of facts, which include being certifiably mad about the CPCs foreign policy from 1960 until now.
I certainly despise their foreign policy from late Mao on for some time afterward, though I don’t think there’s any comparing then and now, as much as some people tend to make it out that way. If you want to call them social imperialists for buying copper from Zimbabwe and weapons from Israel, fine, but that’s not the same as backing Pol Pot and invading Vietnam.
I will shed no tears for Beria. Everyone from Molotov to Malenkov agreed to.kill the bastard. Unless your contention is that he was the only good member of the politburo and every single accusation and every single testimony about his plans are lies, he clearly made his own bed.
I’m not asking you to cry for Beria, I make no claim that he was a good guy*. I am simply citing his killing as part of the extreme action that Krushchev took to destroy the existing establishment. I mean, are we seriously going to say that all the people Stalin purged were guilty of all that they were charged with? I think that would be silly, but even they had open trials, unlike Beria. Would we not be forced to say, therefore, that the same confounding factors apply and perhaps even more? Because he was given a very similar range of charges.
*I elaborated on this point at first, but perhaps that’s not needed.
None of what I say is a sober hard-nosed assessment. I am stating my opinions which are rooted in my own biases and understanding of facts, which include being certifiably mad about the CPCs foreign policy from 1960 until now.
But when I speak of mean words, I speak of the contrast between Dengs repudiation of the cultural revolution with Khruschchev’s secret speech, an often used example of how Khruschchev is bad and Deng is not.
I will shed no tears for Beria. Everyone from Molotov to Malenkov agreed to.kill the bastard. Unless your contention is that he was the only good member of the politburo and every single accusation and every single testimony about his plans are lies, he clearly made his own bed.
I certainly despise their foreign policy from late Mao on for some time afterward, though I don’t think there’s any comparing then and now, as much as some people tend to make it out that way. If you want to call them social imperialists for buying copper from Zimbabwe and weapons from Israel, fine, but that’s not the same as backing Pol Pot and invading Vietnam.
I’m not asking you to cry for Beria, I make no claim that he was a good guy*. I am simply citing his killing as part of the extreme action that Krushchev took to destroy the existing establishment. I mean, are we seriously going to say that all the people Stalin purged were guilty of all that they were charged with? I think that would be silly, but even they had open trials, unlike Beria. Would we not be forced to say, therefore, that the same confounding factors apply and perhaps even more? Because he was given a very similar range of charges.
*I elaborated on this point at first, but perhaps that’s not needed.