But floods and drought have merely compounded a man-made disaster brought on by decades of Stalinism.
Yet those coming recently from this last bunker of Stalinism have been more than usually confusing.
In addition, we now find, it is a utopian scheme for global ideological conquest like Stalinism, minus the compassion.
In the 1950s many intellectuals, including Jean-Paul Sartre, clung to pro-Soviet idealism even after the evils of Stalinism emerged.
It is unfair to reduce German patriotism to national-socialism, just as it is unfair to reduce Russia to Stalinism.
North Korea, last hold-out of Stalinism, is slowly emerging from a mostly man-made famine that has killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Kim Jong Il introduced his "Red Banner" policy in 1996, a more militant tack than his father's blend of Stalinism and Korean self-reliance.
In my book, Stalinism and a police state happens when ministers direct and interfere with specific investigations that the police are carrying out.
Mr Castro has thus confirmed his admirers' unwavering belief in his unwavering addiction, after 40 years of power, to the basics of Stalinism.
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There have been a lot of charges thrown around here - the idea that, you know, this is Stalinism, this is a police state.
Despite Stalinism's decay, Andrei Lankov of South Korea's Kookmin University suggests that the regime, which during the famine may have faced collapse or military rebellion, now actually feels more sure of itself.
The 20th century saw the rise of Stalinism, of Hitlerism, of Fascisms of all kind all over, I mean not just Europe but in many places has led to holocausts, exterminations, extinctions.
Stalinism blew up churches, mosques, and synagogues, it murdered people in enormous numbers because of what they thought, who their parents were, where they were born, and, often, for no discernible purpose whatsoever.
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Stalinism had dozens upon dozens of them.
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Stalinism pretty much invented them.
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Very much the same events (no, not Chikatilo, but Stalinism), the time span, are covered in the novel and the history book: but we clearly and obviously hold them to different standards about their allowable moving around of events and invention of characters in order to tell those similar stories (clearly, I regard both of them as being about the horror of living under totalitarianism).
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