If the government of the Soviet Union knew that the intruding aircraft
[Korean Air Lines Flight No. 007] was in fact a commercial passenger
plane containing 200-plus innocent civilians, despite the potential
military damage of such an apparent spying mission, if they
deliberately destroyed the airplane and its occupants, then, to
paraphrase the French, the act of shooting it down would have been
worse than a barbaric atrocity=85.
--Workers Vanguard No. 337, 9 September 1983
Your [IBT's] comparison of Andropov with Stalin and Beria, the mass
murderers of tens of thousands of Communists and Red Army officers, is
an obscene amalgam worthy of the pages of Commentary. Andropov=92s
entire political career was shaped by a more tranquil period
domestically. To hold him personally responsible for the
psychopathological mass crimes of Stalin reflects the methodology that
holds the bureaucracy to be a homogenous reactionary mass
counterrevolutionary through and through -- i.e. a new exploiting
class.
--Letter to External Tendency from Reuben Samuels, 3 January 1984,
Workers Vanguard No. 348, 17 February 1984 (reprinted in Trotskyist
Bulletin No. 1)
From: http://www.bolshevik.org/Leaflets/compare_contrast.html
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