You should read all the nice things this man said about Stalin.
Posted on 02/12/2022 6:49:53 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Sixty-five years have passed since Nikita Khrushchev stood up at a closed session of the 20th Communist Party Congress to denounce Stalin. So shocked was the Polish communist leader Boleslaw Bierut to hear his former master so traduced that he had a heart attack and subsequently died. But this was just the beginning: Stalin’s mummified corpse was removed from the mausoleum on Red Square where it had been enjoying an eternal slumber party with Lenin; countless monuments were torn down; institutes and buildings were renamed; and Stalin’s books disappeared from shelves. The evil demiurge of the USSR was gone, never to return.
Or so Khruschev hoped. But Stalin, it turned out, could not be so easily forgotten. This June, Russians named him the “most notable” figure in history for the 10th year running; and now, a mere two months later, a new poll by the the Levada Center has found that nearly half of Russians want a Stalin statue to celebrate the USSR’s victory over the Nazis — a figure that has nearly doubled in the past ten years. Surprisingly, this is largely driven by people under the age of 40, among whom support for a monument has quintupled over the past decade.
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That's it? The whole basis for younger Russians loving Stalin is a WWII memorial with Stalin in it?
Good grief. The Nazis killed 2.7 million Russians. Of course, Russians are grateful the Nazis were defeated.
We aligned with Stalin to save the world from the Nazis and their allies.
You should read all the nice things this man said about Stalin.
I've watched hundreds of hours of Russian YouTube, almost all from younger Russians, and I haven't see one express a love for Stalin or communism.
The only poll cited is a desire to celebrate the defeat of the Nazis.
It's amazing what propaganda ignorant people will accept.
They also didn’t have to live under Stalin, they got to reap the benefits of Stalin’s rule without all the pain.
Maybe because unlike us, they don’t try to destroy their history as we want to do, with all the toppling statues, and basically writing off all of our past heroes as racists.
Stalin, who ran the country from 1924 until his death in 1953, was found to be particularly unpopular with people under 25 (19%).
The former Generalissimo, who led the Soviet Union to victory in World War II, splits opinion inside modern Russia. For some, he is a hero for his wartime leadership. For another segment of society, he was a tyrant who led a repressive and murderous regime. For others, he is a mixture of the two. This split is seen starkly in the WCIOM poll, where he also came in third place in the survey for the most beloved Soviet figures.
Showing that they are multicultural, since Stalin wasn’t Russian :-)
“Germany, which is on such a guilt trip that they are unlikely to even be German by 2050,”
Good! After their WW2 BS, Germany should’ve no longer been allowed to exist. Even their dear leader Adolf said as much regarding a Germany who didn’t prevail. Germany should’ve been totally obliterated politically and culturally and been divided out amongst its neighbors. That the granddaughters and great granddaughters of the Nazis are getting ‘drilled’ by filthy third world Mooslims is one of the sweetest revenges.
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Those who do not understand history, are doomed to repeat it.
Or something like that.
Hard to argue with your point, as France fought German unification as hard as they could through the 19th Century. Then the 20th Century proved the French right.
Even though, I’d prefer some other way of dealing with them than what’s going on.
Yes, Georgian. I recently worked with a 20-something Georgian on a green card who was a fan of Stalin. A Russian coworker who was 30 years his senior was definitely not a fan.
The young Georgian moved on to another company, but it was evidence enough that Stalin’s legacy has not tarnished with time, and perhaps quite the opposite.
But But But
Russia is sooooooooo CHRISTIAN dontcha know??
Vlad the Pooty is just a misunderstood Nationalist dontcha know??
But on the other hand, this article gives insights to the mindset of the Russian people. They are always looking backward. They are so busy remembering thier “great” past they can’t move forward very well. Thus, it is always a hobbled almost great power.
Not unlike how many feel about FDR. They may have despised his domestic policies, but admired him for being a Wartime President.
FDR didn’t ally with Hitler to start WW2.
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