Posted on 04/11/2018 4:35:27 PM PDT by GoldenState_Rose
Earlier this year the Russian ministry of culture banned the satirical film The Death of Stalin, because it contained “information whose dissemination is prohibited by law”. On Russian social media, the withdrawal of the film’s licence was met with widespread laughter and scorn: what sort of secrets could this movie possibly have disclosed? Could it be that Stalin is indeed dead? – so went the irony.
Back in December, there had been an ominous precursor: Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s FSB intelligence services, told the Rossiyskaya Gazeta that Stalin-era repressions had been justified. He mentioned the need to counter Trotsky’s networks, and plots that had “ties with foreign secret services”. He also claimed that “mass-scale political repression” had ended by 1938 – a blatant rewriting of history.
Meanwhile, new monuments, banners and exhibits honouring Joseph Stalin are sprouting up around the country, while hundreds of Soviet-era representations of him have been left intact: busts and bas-reliefs of the man, statues big and small, standing or on horseback. Twice a year, on his birthday and on the anniversary of his death, admirers bring piles of red carnations to Stalin’s grave on Red Square.
But Stalinism today in Russia isn’t found in those monuments, flowers, or posters – nor is it in censorship or the double-speak of high-level officials. Instead it is hidden in the minds of many Russians, in how they perceive history, and how they relate to fundamental values.
For most Russians, those millions of victims are nothing but cold statistics. Few people care to pore over the difficult and unpleasant questions. That’s because an unprocessed, psychological trauma remains in our society.
Four years ago, I decided to do something about this. I went to the Moscow offices of the human rights organisation Memorial with an idea...
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Stalin Killed all the smart people
“He mentioned the need to counter Trotsky’s networks, and plots that had “ties with foreign secret services”.”
This sounds just like the Democrats and the leftists who keep blathering about batshit crazy ‘Russian Collusion’ conspiracy theories.
Yup. They recognize Stalinism when they see it.
And now everyone can see it in the Deep State that is run out of London and has thrall over the US government.
Hard not to notice all the mouth-breather propaganda coming out of the UK these days.
No matter what is said we ARE still superior to these Russkie morons despite Obama and they know it so screw them and their BS.
yep All of a sudden after obama, and Russia saying no to homo’s and obama the left with their media are looking for war with Russia.
Russia never recovered from the Russian civil war. Teaching a class on it now.
No - they haven’t yet recovered from the days of Ivan the Terrible.
Most REAL Russians will still stand up for Stalin. Same with Phil Donahue’s butt boy whoever that fella was. Help me with his name.
Vladimir Posner
Have you used Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago in any of your classes?
That itself is enough to disprove the rewriting of history.
Read it plus Anne Applebaum’s version. Had to skip through a lot-dry reading. Stalins mistake was thinking he could develop Russia(Siberia) with slave labor. Trumped up charges and sentences were the norm. I think it could work in the remote areas with legitimate convicts, the kind that need to be banished to serve their sentences. In Siberia the Chinese will some day(like now) will be too crowded. Time for Putin to get ahead of the curve. International convicts serving their time can labor there. Those that make a decent impression can stay. Win win.
Well, the USA hasn't quite gotten over the big "O" yet either. Imagine if his pantsuit princess would have won.
At the start of WWII, the Nazis had killed a few thousand people, political opponents and the severely handicapped. The Soviets had killed at least five million, Ukrainians and Kazakhs deliberately starved, others executed or perished in the gulags.
And yet Marxism is socially acceptable...
The Russian Method of State Suicide:
https://garygindler.wordpress.com/2018/04/11/the-russian-method-of-state-suicide/
The irony is that Stalin wasn’t even Russian.
Stalin, although Georgian, went against the diktats of the original Bolsheviks, and set on a course of “Russification” of the Soviet Union, requiring everyone to speak Russian first, and forcing entire ethnic groups off of lands they had lived in for centuries, to move ethnic Russians in their place.
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