I see there is little point of telling you what I believe.

Like the Stalinists you attack me, only because I oppose the single party bureaucracy of the Soviet Union. Many loyal Bolsheviks were murdered by that bureaucracy. If you want the Soviet Union back, you should learn why it failed.

Capitalism loved Stalin, why? Because he gave them the best anticommunist propaganda tool of all time. Because of his dictatorship they could portray communism as evil and totalitarian. Think of that, because that is why the right-wing is winning the minds of people. Right-wing people claim to fight for democracy and freedom and if communists keep supporting the Soviet Union, the workers of the world will never vote communist. They will rather vote for social democrats or liberals, because they are ''democratic'' more or less.

On religion you are right. The Bolsheviks did combat Christianity between 1921 and 1927 in a brutal way. Murdering priests and religious people. I understand their hate against the church, but I still oppose the brutal murder of so many people only because they were religious. Stalin however replaced Christianity with his own cult of personality by 1930.

The Christian Orthodox Church was anticommunist and pro tsarist. But to murder 2000 priests? I don't think they were all spies for the counter-revolution. No all actions of the Bolsheviks were morally right. They were fuelled by hate, just as the Americans where they invaded Afghanistan and Iraq.

Stalin was not killed by his henchman. They feared him, they were not the type of people who would kill their great leader. I think that Stalin poisoned himself. He had a very bad life style with lots of alcohol.

The Stalinist bureaucracy indeed feared him, because he became obsessed with power and wealth. The bureaucracy also did not liked his terror and murder of loyal party members. Lenin knew that Stalin could become a danger and he was right. But by 1924 Stalin was already very powerful and a few years later he was the new emperor of Russia.

The USSR under Leon Trotsky would not have resulted in the death of 20 million people. In the end I think that good old Karl Marx was right; Russia was not ready for socialism.