Tomás Ó Flatharta

Looking at Things from the Left

Fascinating Extracts from a Stalin Biography – Mao got a lucky break – he was almost selected for a part in one of the infamous 1930’s Moscow Show Trials

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Victor Osprey reports :

Interesting passage from the second volume of the Stalin biography by Kotkin.

Especially notable here: after Hitler came to power, 41 of the 68 German Communists who fled to the Soviet Union would be put to death there.

When plans were made for a public trial of “Trotskyite-fascists” in the Comintern, it appears Mao was put on this tentative list of “Trotskyites”.

Written by tomasoflatharta

Jul 26, 2020 at 10:37 am

Posted in Adolf Hitler, Biography, China, Fourth International, International Political Analysis, Josef Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Nikholai Bukharin, Revolutionary History, Soviet Union (USSR)

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