Posted on 07/07/2004 6:59:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
LONDON (AFP) - Soviet dictator Stalin was a madman who could have benefited from a psychiatrist's attention and millions of lives could have been saved, a British researcher claimed.
Stalin, who ruled Russia from 1924 until his death in 1953, suffered from dementia caused by heart attacks, according to Dr George El-Nimr.
"This (Stalin's dementia) might be an explanation for the florid paranoia, dimming of his superior intellect and the unleashing of his most sadistic personality traits," Nimr told the annual conference of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Harrogate in northern England.
Nimr and two colleagues, Dr Baseem Habeeb and Dr Emad Sulib, discussed the consequences of madness on the behaviour of several 20th century political leaders.
They argued that undiagnosed dementia could affect the fate of nations, even the world.
Millions are estimated to have died as the result of Stalin's policies and in purges.
When really scares me is that leftists will never, never learn that "...Stalin did not Succeed in spite of Communism, but because of Communism..."
Like the man said, "...absolute power corrupts absolutely..."
Couldn't have been plain-old ordinary SIN, now could it have? Human beings are basically good, dontcha know. It's only dementia and Republican policies that ever make anyone do bad things, dontcha know.
Oh, I forgot religion.
Shalom.
The left isn't really all that enamored of murderers (whom they call "egg breakers" if I'm not mistaken) as much as it is perverts. If Stalin had been a homosexual cross-dresser who molested little boys then nothing he ever did would be declared wrong.
Shalom.
Research universities post them all the time. But you have to come with your own funding.
Shalom.
The system was insane. Stalin simply fit right into it.
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