Before you follow the link, guess who is being defended with this sentence.

[james_davis_nicoll]

But is forced radical de-urbanization a crime against humanity, in a world where urbanization is leading us to an environmental crisis that could result in millions of deaths from similar causes and where forced urbanization through government land-grabs has yet to be put on trial?

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[puritybrown.livejournal.com]

I was thinking Stalin; wasn't too far off, I see.

It's odd for the NI to be publishing something like this. I mean, really really odd. I used to subscribe to the magazine and it was very good. This kind of thing is not their usual line at all. I don't know what they were thinking.

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

AFAIK, Stalin encouraged urbanization, whether in the form of industrial cities in the Ural, convict cities in Siberia, or apartment buildings for farmers. He just sometimes would move a city from one spot to another.

It's Mao who liked peasants best.