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Entry: The Origins of the Pod People Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_origins_of_the_pod_people#9669 Post contents: John, I am certainly scratching my head that you call Stalin's collectivisation of agriculture (which incidentally caused famine throughout the USSR, although it was more accute in the Ukraine) evidence that Stalin was NOT a Communist. As far as Lenin's concessions to the Germans are concerned, they were dictated by the necessities of the Russian military collapse and the unopposed German advance. And according to what I have read, Stalin wanted an alliance with Britain and France in 1939 (the US was not then shopping for an alliance) but Britain did not want such an alliance. So Stalin instead allied with the Nazis. While the alliance was a smart move, he was certainly naive to trust Hitler to the extent he did. But this says nothing about either communism or nationalism; it just shows that even paranoids can have areas of naivite. Sent at: 2008 11 22