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Vladimir Putin’s Russia is rehabilitating Stalin
The Guardian ^ | 10 July 2019 | Irina Sherbakova

Posted on 07/13/2019 10:25:25 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

Great expectations characterised 1989...The Gorbachev era brought about a frenzy of change, and people witnessed incredible events on a weekly basis: they snatched up newspapers, hung on every word broadcast on TV, and with every passing day they felt more alive and free.

By the mid-1990s, nostalgia for the Soviet period started to creep in. The greyness of the Brezhnev era, with its endless queues and empty shops, started to be recalled as a peaceful, prosperous time. And gradually something that had seemed impossible during perestroika, became real: Stalin’s shadow loomed large again.

Vladimir Putin’s rise to power came accompanied by a new version of patriotism relying on “heroic” and “bright” aspects of the Soviet past. An image of Stalin as a strong leader who had ensured victory in the second world war and led a Soviet superpower re-emerged. Television propaganda again worked hard to create that image. The millions who perished in waves of political repression were pushed to the margins of collective consciousness.

Today, the 1989 liberation of eastern Europe, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the cold war are understood by many Russians in terms of defeat, disaster even. No wonder, given that Putin has called the fall of the Soviet Union “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 20th century. Today Stalin’s face watches you ubiquitously from billboards, subway train walls, and bookstore windows. Dozens of monuments to him have sprouted around Russia.

It’s not that Russians have forgotten about the direct link between Stalin’s name and the political repression that affected almost every family. Rather, they don’t want to reflect on the terror, on who perpetrated it or what the rationale behind it was. They aren’t ready to acknowledge that this was the central pillar of the entire system.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: berlinwall; glasnost; gorbachev; gulag; irinasherbakova; kievrose; limeypropaganda; memory; mullahlovers; perestroika; putin; putinsbuttboys; putinspeckerpuffers; russia; stalin; ussr; vladtheimploder
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The current glorification of our victories and the whitewashing of Stalin have become possible because today’s Russia has, in fact, no concept whatsoever of the future. What kind of country do we want to live in? A country that “has risen from its knees” and follows its own, unique path? But what is that path? Kremlin ideologists have failed to map any of this clearly.

A celebration of Stalin’s birthday, Moscow 2015.

1 posted on 07/13/2019 10:25:25 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Mass murderer


2 posted on 07/13/2019 10:25:57 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Not much diff between Putin and Stalin....as seen everyday.


3 posted on 07/13/2019 10:29:34 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“Vladimir Putin’s Russia is rehabilitating Stalin”

Democrats have been doing that for years.


4 posted on 07/13/2019 10:35:22 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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And the left here ostracizes Joseph MacArthey who was right too often.


5 posted on 07/13/2019 10:36:47 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Bonemaker
“Vladimir Putin’s Russia is rehabilitating Stalin.”

"Democrats have been doing that for years."

Yes, and in my view, belief in and/or embracement of Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Socialism, etc., is incompatible with being an American.

6 posted on 07/13/2019 10:40:21 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“” “” Dozens of monuments to him have sprouted around Russia.”” “”

Really? Why didn’t they write thousands?


7 posted on 07/13/2019 10:41:48 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

We can expect a new wave of adoration of Mao in China. A communist is a communist and remains a communist.Expect a mausoleum for Chairman Bernie to be erected in DC, soon right next to an Antifa memorial.


8 posted on 07/13/2019 11:01:48 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: rrrod

NOOOO!!!!!!!

I have seen right here on FR posts saying “GOD BLESS PUTIN PLEASE” and “PRAISE PUTIN”!!!!

Dontcha know he’s one of the good guys now?!? :)

He is ruthless and will kill even a media adversary.

But he IS pushing Christianity because he knows it is the only way to get family together and having kids again and because he knows his country needs it to survive.

He understands the dangers of islam (even though both HE and US have friends in the ME) and he recently said it’s crazy to let people run across a porous border.

I don’t trust him and I wouldn’t want to be his political enemy.

That being said, far worse could be in control over there again.


9 posted on 07/13/2019 11:02:04 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The Brits are Russophobes, always supported chechens. This is crap.


10 posted on 07/13/2019 11:11:36 AM PDT by MarMema (breeding tauntauns in northern Michigan - soon to be for sale!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Democrats absolutely loved Russia when it was communist.


11 posted on 07/13/2019 11:11:45 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: rrrod

Thanks for the laugh, you post is hysterical and so misinformed it stands on it’s own silliness

You sure you did not vote for Hillary?


12 posted on 07/13/2019 11:22:13 AM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: dp0622

“” “” That being said, far worse could be in control over there again.”” “”

For some reason I believe Putin would be gone soon, and more likely the entire system would follow taking down the entire project to reform the Russian society conservative way.

The only reason why he is holding now is because of all that attacks by the West. The general population sees that Obama administration and Clintons wanted replacement and since they know some history they’ve chosen to back Putin before anything CIA has to offer.


13 posted on 07/13/2019 11:22:58 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: yldstrk
Lest we forget.

Stalin's Secret Police (full documentary)

14 posted on 07/13/2019 11:25:01 AM PDT by MurrietaMadman (Drain swamp drain.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Does Stalin need rehabilitating among the Democrats? Did he ever stop being a hero to the left?


15 posted on 07/13/2019 11:28:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

This is fake.


17 posted on 07/13/2019 11:35:30 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Are the Kulaks buying it?

Wait! What?

Never mind. They’re all dead.


18 posted on 07/13/2019 11:40:33 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: rrrod

Hey you can’t blame us. Putin pays us to post here regularly, as well as on Facebook and other social media sites.


19 posted on 07/13/2019 11:48:35 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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LOL...how’s the pay? I could use a few extra bucks.


20 posted on 07/13/2019 11:50:12 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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