[Paulie]

I also suggested that this article was to garner public support for war with Russia. Maybe it is and maybe it isn’t, but I suspect it is. This information has been known for two years, why else bring it up now?

I’m no pacifist, but I’m no big fan of war either. Not having an appetite to risk nuclear exchange with Moscow in no way means I ‘worship’ Vlad Putin.

[daniel1212]

I also suggested that this article was to garner public support for war with Russia. Maybe it is and maybe it isn’t, but I suspect it is. This information has been known for two years, why else bring it up now? I’m no pacifist, but I’m no big fan of war either. Not having an appetite to risk nuclear exchange with Moscow in no way means I ‘worship’ Vlad Putin.

Actually Putin would be less likely to risk nuclear exchange with a President that he thinks is likely to respond with this. Thus it seems the bomber missions are less heard of, while Putin works geopolitical forces.

[GoldenState_Rose]

Paulie, we are NOT going to war (militarily) with Russia! I count two (active) Russian airmen among my dear friends by the way, and Russian military troops in general have more aspirations to visit, work, or experience life in the U.S. than to ever dream of fighting against people from the culture they most admire and which dominates their music playlist, their movie list, books, their bucketlist of places to see, etc...etc...

But in terms of ideological warfare and for the sake of protecting the integrity of the historical record: Putin and his supporters need to be taken to task for the fraud that he is.

His sick revisionist narratives of the world need to be addressed. Honestly even moreso in Russia than here. As this article points out:

In Russia, as in much of the post-Soviet space, the past is the present. From Ukraine to Belarus to Poland and Lithuania, historical narratives of communism, World War II, the Holocaust and the Holodomor—Ukraine’s Terror-Famine—are being reviewed, revised and in many cases manipulated to serve new ideological trends.

In Russia, the elephant in the room is Stalin’s repressions—quite possibly the largest yet least understood crime of the 20th century. Despite its scale, outside a relatively small group of historical memory activists, the repressions are not a matter of national conversation.

Following a brief period of revelations in the wake of perestroika, the fog of silence is thickening once again, pushing the memory of the events out of Russian consciousness and, with it, out of that of humanity.

Note: this denialism is in large part due to the reins Putin was given over the historical narrative and bodes ill for everyone who wants the lessons of the past to be learned, but especially Russians. As the past continues to stall and haunt the place - and is the biggest factor contributing to instability in the region. (Namely the defacto war with Ukraine and tensions with its other neighbors in Europe.)

http://www.newsweek.com/why-are-memories-stalin-terror-being-buried-528886