Question for Soviet Union Historians
If it wasn't getting closer to the finals here at college I would go and look this up myself but since I really don't have the time at the moment I was hoping that someone would be able to help me out on the issue. The question came during my World Affairs class, my Naderite teacher was compiling about how during the Cold War the Conservatives (BTW according to him root of all evil and direct phone line to Satan) made up lies about the soviets in order to enlarge the "military Industrial Complex". When I brought up many Communist notions on "World Revolution" he stated that after Stalin no communist nor leader believed in such a thing and only the Leninist outside of the Soviet Union truly believed in a world revolution.
Now I thought that although Stalin did state this one upon a time he eventually changed his mind and went back to the Leninist line of the party (world revolution). I also recall that the whole part of the story "Animal Farm" where Napoleon took Snowballs idea of the windmill after he ran Snowball out of the farm was basically Orwell 's comparison to Stalin saying how world revolution was originally his idea after first arguing against it (his one state communism) but later embracing the idea of a world revolution. Like wise in the book Napoleon said the "windmill" would never work but after kicking Snowball out embraced the idea as his own. He said it was some "Fox News Propaganda" and simply not how it happened. Can anyone help me out either way, I'm pretty sure I am right on the issue but not 100 percent.
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