[CondoleezzaProtege]

Today's Russia is not the Soviet Union, but how its people relate to and view the Soviet Union has ramifications for their diplomatic relations with us and with other countries. We start from different pages of understanding. We can't just presume for example, that just because we think Stalin was bad, they do too...

[Bringbackthedraft]

Stalin’s victories? 2 guns behind pushing one gun forward. ??? Lots of Vodka for all.

[elcid1970]

Here we go again, folks. Russians simply want to be ruled by a strong leader whom they will love no matter how he treats them. And the Orthodox Church is firmly back in the saddle as the Russian state’s chief enabler.

What’s next, they’ll dig up Stalin and put him back in the mausoleum next to Lenin like before?

Russia is not part of the West.

[allendale]

Stalin, a Georgian by birth, is second only to Hitler on the list of individuals directly responsible for the most Russian deaths. Yet the Russian people have a heritage of accepting cruel leaders as their fate and necessary for their national survival. Although Stalin was a very flawed wartime leader,a great majority of the Russian people immediately after the war and even now credit him with throwing back the German onslaught and preserving the Russian nation.

It can also be said that the American people owe Stalin a great debt. If he had not been able to rally the Russian people, tenaciously and at great cost fight the Germans, depleting the German army of its best units, Americans would have suffered a much higher causality rate in a longer war. Many Americans who live today might not exist if their progenitors had been killed in Europe instead of returning home. All those dead Russians that Stalin sent into often hopeless battles ended up saving many American lives.

History is complex.

[sergeantdave]

Is you’re going to post crap from EuroZine, at least inform people that it’s a Soros neo-fascist rag that’s a propaganda tool for the EU deep state.