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Yeah, but communists have such good intentions...

Like to see what happens when its suggsted that they name their senior center after that great European industrialist Albert Speer.

Calm down. King County prefers the policies of Stalin. If you don't like it, leave.

B.C.

FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA
(Born and raised in King County, hope to never go back.....)

Isn't some student union building at Penn State Main Campus named after Robeson?

MORE ABOUT PAUL ROBESEON
Robeson Described Stalin's "constitution" in 1936 as "an expression of democracy, broader in scope and loftier in principle than ever before expressed." This was after it had been disclosed that Stalin had deliberately caused the starvation deaths by starvation of millions of people in the Ukraine.

* Supported the Stalin-Hitler pact and the brutal Soviet and Nazi invasion of Poland, which started World War II.

* Called the Soviet invasion of peaceful and tiny Finland "defensive."

* Won the so-called Stalin Peace Prize in 1952.

* Denounced the murderously suppressed Hungarian uprising as the work of the "same sort of people who overthrew the Spanish Republican government," meaning the revolutionaries were fascists.

* Recalled, at a 1953 tribute, seeing Stalin, the man responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of Russians and other people, enter a box at the Bolshoi Theater in 1937: "I remember the tears began to quietly flow and I too smiled and waved. Here was clearly a man who seemed to embrace all. So kindly - I can never forget that warm feeling of kindliness and also a feeling of sureness. Here was one who was wise and good - the world and especially the socialist world was fortunate indeed to have his daily guidance."
This, Beichman notes, "was at the height of the infamous Moscow Trials."

* Claimed about the Moscow show trial frame-ups and executions, in an interview with the Communist Daily Worker: "From what I have already seen of the workings of the Soviet government, I can only say that anybody who lifts his hand against it ought to be shot."

* Rejoiced in the Great Terror: "It is the [Soviet] government's duty to put down any opposition to this really free society with a firm hand, and I hope they will always do it, for I already regard myself at home here [in Moscow]. ... It is obvious that there is no terror here, that all the masses of every race are contented and support their government."

* Bragged in 1949: "I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the U.S.S.R. - the country I love above all. I always have been, I am now and will always be a loyal friend of the Soviet Union."

Jarvis Tyner, executive vice chairman of Communist Party USA, was quoted in the People's Weekly World: "This [The Robeson Stamp] is a great victory" because "every schoolchild will be told about Paul Robeson," who "embraced all the advanced ideas of the Communist Party USA, the need for a socialist transformation of society"