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Entry: The Origins of the Pod People Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_origins_of_the_pod_people#9342 Post contents: As to whether or not Stalin was a Russian nationalist who used Communism or a Communist who used Russian nationalism, I'd agree with the latter position. For a start, I'd have to give some weight to what people call themselves. I also find it quite difficult to believe that international Communism was for decades simply a vast and incredibly detailed disguise for Russian nationalism. As Churchill put it in another context, "The disguise is most convincing". It convinces me. But it must also be added, as Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn frequently observed, nationalism and internationalism are not opposites, but both forms of collectivism, one shading into the other. Whenever a nation seeks to dominate others and impose its values on them, it has already become internationalist and not just nationalist. One can see this in the case of the US more clearly than in the case of the USSR. Between American nationalism and liberal internationalism there is a distinction without a difference. Bush is the poster boy for both, but simply following in the footsteps of Lincoln, Wilson and FDR. Sent at: 2008 11 22