Posted on 06/26/2017 4:17:23 PM PDT by Fitzy_888
Soviet leader Josef Stalin has been named the most outstanding person in history in a Russian poll despite executing more than a million people in political purges.
The survey by the Levada Center in Moscow released Monday showed 38 percent of those two took part chose Stalin.
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“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” - Joseph Stalin
They are trained from birth to fear the rest of the world and Stalin’s aggression made them feel safe and strong.
God save us.
Low estimates.
This was a subject of considerable debate in the university course on the Russian Revolution I took back in the early 1990s, concerning whether Stalin was a positive or negative force in that country’s history. Without question, you could certainly talk about the horrible crimes against humanity that he and his bunch committed, but it was also mentioned that he greatly helped the Russians resist German aggression and occupation in World War II.
This is how it’s done. Propaganda makes someone great after the fact.
Putin will have to work a bit harder.
Communists sure have a high regard of themselves.
“....he greatly helped the Russians resist German aggression and occupation in World War II.”
Greatly helped? Stalin started purging the military officer corp in October of 1940, the Germans invaded June of the following year.
Throughout history the most important aspect of a “good king” was that he won wars. If he lost his people would be conquered, killed or enslaved. Richard the Lionheart is widely considered one of England’s greatest kings despite that he didn’t speak English, and never spent more than a few months in England, and left a nearly bankrupt country. Why? He won wars. That’s what I see here.
Russia has always been a country ruled by barbarians.
Make ya wonder if they actually enjoy it.
Don’t forget that the left in the USA loved Stalin too.
On this day (August 23) in 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact, stunning the world, given their diametrically opposed ideologies.
Stalin did a super job leading the Soviet Union, if you are into mass murder on the class of millions that is, and torture, imprisonment, suppression of all freedoms, secret police, corruption, inflicting poverty on entire nations. But other than that - what is there to not like?
The only single thing that saved Russia in history is the vastness of the country. And that is why Hitler screwed it up. He was to dam stupid to understand why.
Anyone who intends to invade and take over that hole will have to do it from the middle and bottom up and not west to east or east to west.
I am certainly aware that he did such things and I certainly do not mind you pointing out something like the Nazis attacking Russia not long after Stalin’s purging of the military officer corps. All that I wanted to do was simply mention how Stalin’s lead of resisting the Germans (with help from the famous Russian winter, of course) assisted in creating that positive perception of him, despite the many other very bad things that took place under his rule.
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