![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book that made him famous and infamous at once, was Another View of Stalin (1994). Among these, Ludo Martens (1946-2011), a Belgian historian and activist noted for his work on francophone Africa and the Soviet Union, and also the chairman of the Workers' Party of Belgium, stands out for the scope and forcefulness of his work. It is clear that once you successfully implant the false equation that Stalin's sins-as proclaimed by his legion of detractors- equals communism, the rest is straightforward: it's far easier to demonise a man than a whole complex system which many people, despite the unrelenting propaganda, find intriguing and often, when capitalist brutality and indecency show their true face, downright attractive.īut while "Stalin", both the real man and the symbol, due to his utility to Western demonology, continues to be the target of insidious studies and open attacks (1), there are those who have fought against this tide of mendacity and bad faith seeking to attain a more balanced and truthful picture of this complex man and his times. Therein lies its immense value to Western capitalist propaganda. First in a series on Stalin & the Soviet Union EDITOR'S PREFATORY NOTE A nti-Stalinism has served for many decades as psychological and disinformation shorthand (not to mention ubiquitous battering ram) for anti-Sovietism, and, in general, anticommunism. ![]()
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