Jim Walsh is a Minneapolis-based writer, journalist, columnist, songwriter, and the author of The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History. Jim has published in Rolling Stone, SPIN, the Village Voice, the Star Tribune, Melody Maker, and Billboard.
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For 30 years, much of the West looked on with disdain as the Bolsheviks took power in Russia and created and consolidated the Soviet Union. As bad as Vladimir Lenin seemed in the early 20th century, Joseph Stalin was so much worse that Churchill later rem... SEE MORE