I was talking to a relative, an in-law who has lived in Russia & knows Russian, about "Death of Stalin." He loved movie but also came up with a bizarre pro-Beria argument.
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What I'm learning from my TL is that there is actually a school of thought that argues Beria (rapist of children & architect of the terror) was a pro-market reformer.
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The proper tankie line is that the problem with Beria is he was a neo-liberal sell-out.
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You can't be a ruthless murderer and a pro-market reformer?
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Any more acedotes from this time period ?
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i've seen that before; it's in Montefiore's Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar.
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It's not like a pro market reformer would ever murder political opponents
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The proper tankie position is that the problem with Beria is he was a neo-liberal sell-out.
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Kind of like a "Only Nixon could go to China" argument?
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Sergo Beria, Beria's son, wrote a book that made many of the same arguments in an attempt to rehabilitate his father. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jun/30/historybooks.artsandhumanities …
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Beria a monster. But as per Montefiore's Court of the Rd Tsar, especially as S's death neared + jostle for succession intensified, B hoped to steer USSR toward technocratic rule and bourgeois respectability. Personal sadism/dreams of nat'l glory not mutually exclusive.
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