March 05, 2003

STALIN LIVES

       Saddam Hussein's hero and role model died 50 years ago. While the Soviet Union crumbled, along with Communism, Stalinism survives. Its current exemplars: Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il, Yasser Arafat and Fidel Castro. Their world wide constituency: the "useful idiots" of the peace movement. In this superb article Johan Hari notes that "According to his biographer Con Coughlin, Saddam Hussein became obsessed with Stalin's political theories during his time in exile in Egypt in the early 1960s. After the 1968 revolution, Saddam embarked on the "Stalinization of Iraq" by ruthlessly building a one-party state based on hierarchy, secrecy and discipline. He borrowed Stalin's vicious tactic of staging show-trials, and began to discover "Zionist spy-rings" across the country. Coughlin explains that "the only significant difference between Saddam's purges and Stalin's terror is that in Iraq there were no gulags; with a few exceptions, Saddam's intended victims stood no chance of survival"..." Hari's focus is on British Stalinists but his observations hold true for America. The war between civilization and barbarism will be waged against Stalin's and Hitler's natural heirs around the globe.

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