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It wasn't negligible in my country (Czechoslovakia), where the USSR was the model. I think almost everybody felt relief when Stalin (and Gottwald) died. Maybe S
by asgard1024 12y ago
It wasn't negligible in my country (Czechoslovakia), where the USSR was the model. I think almost everybody felt relief when Stalin (and Gottwald) died. Maybe Stalin didn't oppress people much after the war, but he still got the _right_ to do so, and the Durov's sentence is 100% correct.
- osipov 12y agoAll governments oppress people. The real issue is to what extent they do so and what fraction of the people consider themselves oppressed. Unfortunately the frontlines after WW2 where redrawn and Czechoslovakia was in the unenviable position of having to defend the Warsaw Pact while its population wasn't fully supportive of this position. Those who opposed (anti-Stalinists) were oppressed. As a mirror image, consider Greece where pro-Stalinist communists were oppressed in 50s and 60s.