To truly understand Stalin as a man, a dictator, a leader we need to assess the country he ruled, its economy, its politics and its social status before and during the time he ruled; not just his actions. ... Baltic- White Sea Canal and the Moscow- Volga Canal. ... This statement conflicts with a statement made by Stalin himself around the time Gulags were operating, "Of all the treasures a State can posses, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious." ... Many of the original leaders of the Party, old Bolsheviks like Zinoviev, Kamenov and Bukharin, who still had the respe...

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A few days ago during a meeting with the Romanian Diaspora on the Black Sea coast, the Romanian prime-minister Nastase even referred to the Status-Act" as a model to be used in drafting a corresponding Romanian regulation. ... And it is precisely on this old, apparently never healing wound that US Ambassador Michael Guest and the chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), Obie Moore have placed their finger upon. ...

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