Posted on 12/23/2017 4:23:39 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
Modern Russians refuse to admit this narrative angle.
Thanks for the video!
Ahha, another protegee of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
Tell me about that picture.
Norse, I don’t want fluffy lefty Pussy Rioters controlling Russia either...but Russian patriots have been their own worst enemy when it comes to the selective editing of historical memory.
The “catalyst” for war between Russia and Germany was Hitler’s desire to convert most of the western USSR into “lebensraum” for greater Germany. The Slavic population of those areas was to be either killed outright, driven out to the East, or wiped out through gradual attrition using mandatory birth control, abortion, etc.
Stalin signed the Non-Aggression Pact, knowing the end result would be war between Germany France and Britain.
He counted on them all bleeding each other dry, allowing the Red Army to swoop in and take over the continent.
Just one problem, France fell without much of a fight, and Britain was neutralized, allowing Hitler to focus everything on attacking the Soviet Union.
Adolf Hitler, the only person Stalin ever trusted.
Geezzeee, you know your history well.
See the link at post #11
Stalin was warned about Hitler’s attack by Richard Sorge and others, but chose to ignore the warnings. Soviet exports of grain and other goods to Germany continued right up until hostilities started. Stalin was so upset by Hitler’s treachery (!) that he supposedly hid under a table in his office for days, barely able to communicate.
This is the scene in the movie “Stalin” that shows he was pretty messed up.....
https://youtu.be/A57gNcOdduo?t=8060
BTW, this is a good movie, I thought, despite the makeup, that Robert Duval did a good job in this movie.
Stalin mostly killed patriots, fearing them more than anything. Countless Chechen WWII war heroes were sent away. That FSB head is as idiotic as Germans claiming Hitler meant to protect them from Communism when Hitler wanted to replace them with islamists...
I don't know how "secret" those sessions were. I have a contemporary 1950's newspaper clipping of Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin. (The other side of the clipping regarded family news).
The Russians have always been ambivalent towards St. Petersburg, deliberately planned as a Western city by Peter the Great, a haven of dissident intellectuals and Western cultural influence from its founding, and not a “Russian” city in the way Moscow always has been.
Wow that’s really sick. Mass murders featured on the guys walls.
Maybe Hitler youth are featured in the next room.
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