Ismail

Comrade I'd really like to know where you're getting the idea that when the Soviet Union invaded Poland, the Polish state has already collapsed. Every trustworthy source in Russian and English I've read claims the contrary. From what I understand this myth originates from Molotov's statement in 1939, where he also claimed that the war with the Germans was began by the Polish government....

I'm also confused as to how 200,000-400,000 Polish prisoners of war got themselves caught by the Red Army...if there was no Polish State that they served, did they just accidentally wander off into Soviet internment? Did someone fail to inform them of the non-existence of Poland?

Comrade, I once read(from, I believe, the Great Soviet Encyclopedia) that Gulag inmates were paid. Is that true?

Sorry.

It's more that i'm just not that interested in individuals; 'marxist' analyses based on the simplistic ideas of whether one person is 'more right-wing' than another don't really get us anywhere.

Moreover, the very notion of right and left is:

a) contested - many Socialists don't even identify as 'left', since as we all know, the left-right scale is a bourgeois construct from France, and
b) highly subjective. To me, Marxism-Leninism is on the right-wing of the Socialist ideologies, since it has proved to be highly transitional and doesn't generally call for the immediate abolition of money or the state. You'll dis-agree (just to pre-empt, i'm not really interested in that discussion!), which will just prove the point that it's impossible to assert objective truth here

There is also the issue that peoples' political views are fluid. It is often difficult to call people 'left' or 'right', since in different periods, peoples' views change, for many reasons.

Comrade, you haven't been on Soviet-Empire in a while, although you've never quite been an active user. I request you make more appearances, if given the time.

Do you know where I can find Svetlana Alliluyeva's autobiography online?

Hey, how come you're not a mod anymore?

I was reading a book about Albania today. It brought up the Corfu incident between Albania and GB, but it didn't go into detail. Could you explain what happened and how Hoxha handled it?