Russia has yet to recover from the trauma of the Stalin era

The Guardian ^ | Mar 2018 | Sergey Parkhomenko

[butlerweave]

Stalin Killed all the smart people

[MeganC]

“He mentioned the need to counter Trotsky’s networks, and plots that had “ties with foreign secret services”.”

This sounds just like the Democrats and the leftists who keep blathering about batshit crazy ‘Russian Collusion’ conspiracy theories.

[thoughtomator]

Yup. They recognize Stalinism when they see it.

And now everyone can see it in the Deep State that is run out of London and has thrall over the US government.

Hard not to notice all the mouth-breather propaganda coming out of the UK these days.

[boomop1]

No matter what is said we ARE still superior to these Russkie morons despite Obama and they know it so screw them and their BS.

[manc]

yep All of a sudden after obama, and Russia saying no to homo’s and obama the left with their media are looking for war with Russia.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"A Single Death is a Tragedy; a Million Deaths is a Statistic".

Since they were just faceless, nameless people that were deported to Siberia, starved, or thrown into concentration camps, no one needs to care.

[bravo whiskey]

Russia never recovered from the Russian civil war. Teaching a class on it now.

[Jack Hammer]

No - they haven’t yet recovered from the days of Ivan the Terrible.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Most REAL Russians will still stand up for Stalin. Same with Phil Donahue’s butt boy whoever that fella was. Help me with his name.

[dfwgator]

Vladimir Posner

[SteveO87]

Have you used Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago in any of your classes?
That itself is enough to disprove the rewriting of history.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Read it plus Anne Applebaum’s version. Had to skip through a lot-dry reading. Stalins mistake was thinking he could develop Russia(Siberia) with slave labor. Trumped up charges and sentences were the norm. I think it could work in the remote areas with legitimate convicts, the kind that need to be banished to serve their sentences. In Siberia the Chinese will some day(like now) will be too crowded. Time for Putin to get ahead of the curve. International convicts serving their time can labor there. Those that make a decent impression can stay. Win win.

[Don Corleone]

Russia has yet to recover from the trauma of the Stalin era

Well, the USA hasn't quite gotten over the big "O" yet either. Imagine if his pantsuit princess would have won.

[heartwood]

At the start of WWII, the Nazis had killed a few thousand people, political opponents and the severely handicapped. The Soviets had killed at least five million, Ukrainians and Kazakhs deliberately starved, others executed or perished in the gulags.

And yet Marxism is socially acceptable...

[WMarshal]

the correct title should be “The Russians Have Not Recovered From The Mongol Invasions Of The 13th Century”.

http://geohistory.today/mongol-empire-effects-russia/

[WWII_Historian]

The Russian Method of State Suicide:

https://garygindler.wordpress.com/2018/04/11/the-russian-method-of-state-suicide/

[Telepathic Intruder]

There are a few reasons I suppose Marxism is acceptable to the Left while Nazism is not.

• Nazis were white, and supremacists, whereas liberals believe in non-white supremacy.
• The Nazis' atrocities were more publicly known after the war, while communists tend to keep theirs secret.
• Liberals generally believe that the massacres and genocides had nothing to do with communism, only the leadership. With the right leaders, it can still work. They don't say the same about Nazism.
• Liberals generally think that all communist governments to date aren't "true" communism, so it's never really been tried.
• Liberals generally agree with Stalin's quote "you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs".

In any case, communist have murdered more than twice the number of people that Nazis did, which includes every death in WWII.

[dfwgator]

The irony is that Stalin wasn’t even Russian.

[dfwgator]

Stalin, although Georgian, went against the diktats of the original Bolsheviks, and set on a course of “Russification” of the Soviet Union, requiring everyone to speak Russian first, and forcing entire ethnic groups off of lands they had lived in for centuries, to move ethnic Russians in their place.