It appears that Stalin was part of the vast right-wing conspiracy. Or at least that is what a certain David North, "National Secretary" of the Socialist Equality Party claims in a letter to the editor that appeared in yesterday's Wall Street Journal:
The terror unfolded under the banner of the struggle against the political influence of Leon Trotsky, the most prominent and unrelenting opponent of Stalin's right-wing bureaucratic regime. Virtually all the defendants in the three show trials held in Moscow between 1936 and 1938 -- people such as Kamenev, Zinoviev, Bukharin, and Rakovsky -- had played major roles in the creation of the Soviet state and during its early years. All the Soviet generals murdered by Stalin in 1937 had achieved prominence during the Civil War, when Trotsky commanded the Red Army.:The purges were by no means arbitrary. The terror was directed not against right-wing enemies of the Soviet Union, but against left-wing opponents of Stalin's betrayal of the October Revolution.
Who knew?
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