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socialist_n_TN

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10. I'm not sure if they actually met and discussed anything........

Reply to MrYikes (Reply #8)

Sat Sep 15, 2012, 12:07 PM

Sep 2012

but Debs WAS in the embryonic Soviet Union when Trotsky was a big part of that. OK going on a 61 year old man's memory here, but I believe Debs visited the early USSR when Trotsky was still a player.

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