[a fool in paradise]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1000696/posts
Ed Asner claims that Joseph Stalin was “misunderstood”!
2003

Ed Asner, the ultra-socialist actor, was recently asked if he had the chance to play the biographical story of a person from history whom he respected the most in his lifetime, who would it be? His answer:

“I think Joe Stalin was a guy that was hugely misunderstood,” said Asner. “And to this day, I don’t think I have ever seen an adequate job done of telling the story of Joe Stalin, so I guess my answer would have to be Joe Stalin.”

[kiryandil]

“I think Joe Stalin was a guy that was hugely misunderstood,” said Asner. “And to this day, I don’t think I have ever seen an adequate job done of telling the story of Joe Stalin, so I guess my answer would have to be Joe Stalin.”

Wonder how Assholener would play the scene where Stalin tasked Vasily Blokhin with personally murdering 7,000 Polish military prisoners to ensure the subjugation of a future Polish nation.

Asner should get a nice interview with Lucille...

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Ed Asner claims that Joseph Stalin was “misunderstood”!

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Major Soviet Paper Says 20 Million Died As Victims of Stalin was published by the NYT in 1989.