Posted on 06/09/2010 11:31:19 PM PDT by Boucheau
The small town of Bedford, Va., is home to 21 men who sacrificed their lives on D-Day, June 6, 1944. It is now also the home of one of the world's few public memorial busts of communist dictator Josef Stalin.
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“So why not just a plaque acknowledging the sacrifices of the Soviet people and do away with the bust of the mass murderer?”
Because this has NOTHING to do with the Soviet People.
Well,,,I sure hope those sckroool chuldruns don’t knock
his noze off,,,
Reeealy...;0)
Hey, pigeons need toilets too!
Thank you for that, Cougar. That will go into my knowledgebase.
Stalin's paranoid killing-off 30,000 Soviet military officers prior to WWII actually prolonged the war!
This isn’t a war memorial. It’s a D-day memorial. Stalin had less to do with the success of D-day than e.g. de Gaulle.
I’m glad Stalin’s bust is there though. Because someone can take a hammer to it and so speak for the millions who suffered because of him.
Send Stalin’s bust to the White House. A fitting replacement for Churchill’s bust, which Obama immediately returned to the UK as soon as he took office.
I assume that's a photoshop of Khrushchev. I've read that there is no photo of him pounding the desk with his shoe.
Most certainly, but that also has to be balanced by the fact that without Stalin's ruthless five year plans forcing through industrialisation, the USSR wouldn't have been in any sort of position to equip and maintain an army capable of halting the Germans at the gates of Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad....
Yeah there isn’t. It’s fake but accurate.
Little kids walk by this figure on their way to get ice cream. I bet they wonder who that man is (who would have starved them and their families to death, if he didn’t walk them out into a frozen field and put a bullet into each of their heads first.)
Makes me proud to be an American.
Yeah, this is what we’re about: monuments to sociopathic mass-murderers. This is who we now immortalize in bronze.
That it is allowed to stand is yet another example of how lost we are.
Don’t fool yourself into thinking that there will not be a hefty price to pay for this. The universe does not care about your “sophisticated” explanation of why this insanity should be permitted/tolerated.
If it’s a D-Day memorial, then why isn’t Candaian Prime Minister Mackenzie King represented? Weren’t Canadian paratroopers involved in the D-Day landing?
And why is there a bust of Truman? He wasn’t even Vice President yet in 1944!
Perhaps most curious, why is there no bust of General Eisenhower?
This isn’t a war memorial. It’s a D-day memorial. Stalin had less to do with the success of D-day than e.g. de Gaulle................................. But, there were Russian and French troops on the beaches in Normandy.
Nothing a vandal couldn’t take care of with a 10 pound sledgehammer.
Yeah - Obambi can hang his 'Chairman Mao' Christmas ornaments from his Stalin bust.
There were 177 Free French Troops who landed on Sword Beach under British Command, and a few more who landed the night before as part of the British Special Air Service (SAS) Brigade. Four French Cruisers also provided naval support.
Many of the other Free French forces (about 400,000 strong) were otherwise engaged fighting in Italy at the time...
If Hitler has won that war then the murderous Soviet Union would have been finished. And communism would have suffered a major setback. The outcome was not perfect. However there is the possibility that the two dictatorships would have destroyed one another.
Really? None of the Soviet people died defeating Hitler? Hmm, I’ll have to go back and check the history books. I could’ve sworn I read that someplace.
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