Posted on 06/23/2010 9:04:52 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
There has been a lot of anger over the inclusion of a statue of Joseph Stalin, Russia's murderous WWII dictator, in our National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia.As a result of that anger a petition has been started to remove the Stalin celebration from the National D-Day Memorial.
Thousands of Americans feel that including a statue celebrating the life of this monster is the wrong way to go about memorializing Russia's sacrifice during WWII and they want the statue pulled down.
Others, though, say that if we pull down the statue we are whitewashing history. After all, they say, we have statues to the other Allied leaders and excluding Stalin just makes no sense.
I disagree with those that think we must memorialize Stalin in order to be true to a valid accounting of history. What should have been done to memorialize Russia's dear sacrifice during WWII was to recognize the nation's effort without building a statue to one of the worst murderers in human history. The statue should have been of Russia itself, not Stalin...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
My Grandfather was a combat engineer that went ashore in a higgins boat during the first amphibious assault wave on Omaha Beach. He did not fight the German National Socialists so that a Soviet Marxist Socialist tyrant could be honored. This is insulting to the memory of all free men that answered their nation’s call to liberate the world from the yoke of national/international socialist totalitarians.
Whoops—correction—D-Day Memorial, not WWII Memorial, although that would be even MORE insulting.
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"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...
"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'
http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html
From Accuracy In Media | AIM.ORG
Obama’s Red Mentor Praised Red Army
AIM Report | By Cliff Kincaid | April 30, 2008
Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA (CPUSA), wrote a poem dedicated to the Soviet Red Army. “Smash on, victory-eating Red Army,” he declared. He also wrote poems attacking traditional Christianity and the work of Christian missionaries.
The “Red Army” poem goes beyond hoping for the communists to beat the Nazis in World War II and hails the Soviet revolution. It says:
Show the marveling multitudes
Americans, British, all your allied brothers
How strong you are
How great you are
How your young tree of new unity
Planted twenty-five years ago
Bears today the golden fruit of victory!
http://www.aim.org/aim-report/obamas-red-mentor-praised-red-army/
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"'The Black Book of Communism,'; a scholarly accounting of communism’s crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."
Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmY0MjI1MDgyYjg1M2UwNDMzMTk2Mjk5YTk0ZTdlMWE=
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The REAL Question is who is responsible for it being there to begin with. Was it the Post Turtle himself? Or some other Traitor.
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