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Putin names regional Russian airport Stalingrad
APA ^ | 4/30/2025 | Staff

Posted on 04/30/2025 11:35:43 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

Russia's President Vladimir Putin signed a decree late on Tuesday renaming the airport in Volgograd as Stalingrad, as the city was known when the Soviet army defeated the Nazi German forces in the biggest battle of World War Two, APA reports citing Reuters.

"In order to perpetuate the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, I hereby decree ... to assign the historical name 'Stalingrad' to Volgograd International Airport," the decree published on the Kremlin's website said.

(Excerpt) Read more at en.apa.az ...


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To: Verginius Rufus

Eleanor Roosevelt was a nut and the archetype of nutty communist racist feminist “liberals”.


41 posted on 04/30/2025 1:43:27 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: marcusmaximus

Groggy missed all the fellow travelers and communists in Europe that were murdered by Bera - add another million or so.

Historians put the total murder count for JS at over 69,000,000, only topped by Mao at 74,000,000


42 posted on 04/30/2025 1:56:38 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: NorthMountain

Both are equally demonic. Fdr fought the war to Dave his buddy Stalin, and because his administration was full of Soviet spirs.


43 posted on 04/30/2025 2:23:28 PM PDT by cowboyusa
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To: DesertRhino

Hitler’s number one war was to kill the Jews in Eastern Europe.


44 posted on 04/30/2025 2:24:42 PM PDT by cowboyusa
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To: cowboyusa

Too often forgotten. Even to the detriment of the lunatic. Trains the military needed were used to transport Jews. Jews who fought valiantly for Germany in WWI were murdered.
And coward Einsatz formations of Germans were busy killing Jews only a few miles behind the Army front lines.

It’s truly astonishing.

And then of course, after Stalin’s depredations, the German Army only had to act decent, and they would have been seen as saviors. But their madness meant they attacked those same people and made their own job of killing Russia even harder.

It was truly deranged.


45 posted on 04/30/2025 2:31:28 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: cowboyusa

46 posted on 04/30/2025 2:32:54 PM PDT by xp38
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To: dfwgator

Stalin was a true National Socialist. Instead of German, he did it with Russians.

True. Trotsky wanted to go international, Stalin was National Socialist and did not want to go worldwide (at least then). That’s why Stalin had Trotsky introduced to an ice axe.

And I hear the old joke that the greatest trick the Austrians ever played was convincing the world that Beethoven was Austrian and Hitler wasn’t.


47 posted on 04/30/2025 2:42:27 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: Leaning Right

I agree.


48 posted on 04/30/2025 3:16:54 PM PDT by Savage Beast (There's a Light over the Whole World. I just want everybody to be happy, healthy and well. --DJT)
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To: DesertRhino

“”””We successfully dealt with communism internationally except in a few small gadfly places today.””””

What is it, about 20% of the world’s population and the communist nations include the 2nd most powerful nation in the world?


49 posted on 04/30/2025 5:09:18 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Nextrush

Stalin and his followers murdered more people than Hitler did.


50 posted on 04/30/2025 7:22:36 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

All have sinned and deserve hell for it.


51 posted on 04/30/2025 7:39:32 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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To: dfwgator

That is a typical horrible Soviet in-your-face monument.


52 posted on 05/01/2025 2:11:30 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: DesertRhino

“That’s why Stalin had Trotsky introduced to an ice axe.”

By the time that happened, Trotsky was just a nuisance. Trotsky was no threat to Stalin by then. It was just cold-blooded revenge.


53 posted on 05/01/2025 2:16:59 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: DesertRhino

“Same for Moscow. Taking Moscow didn’t ever mean victory, it just meant you’d be holding a torched empty Moscow All that material was wasted and should have been in that thrust.”

Look at a map of the old Soviet Union. Moscow is the center of the Soviet rail net. Take Moscow and you effectively cut the SU in half. Then Moscow was the center of the Russian heartland, the largest population center, the largest industrial center, and the center of the most centralized regime in history.


54 posted on 05/01/2025 2:21:31 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: rxh4n1

At least it was an “in-your-face” monument to the Nazis.


55 posted on 05/01/2025 4:59:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rxh4n1

Only good thing Stalin did. Trotsky ultimately would have been much more dangerous to the West than Stalin.


56 posted on 05/01/2025 5:00:05 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
Despite the fact that he was ethnically Georgian. But then again, Hitler wasn’t German neither.

That's kind of an apples to oranges comparison, since even though Hitler was from Austria rather than Germany, he was still an ethnic German. Ethnic Germans in Austria often had a much stronger sense of "Germanness" than those in Germany proper, to distinguish themselves from the ethnic Hungarians, Czechs, etc who also lived in Austria.

57 posted on 05/01/2025 7:02:39 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: rxh4n1

Napoleon captured Moscow but it didn’t do him much good. Of course that was before railroads.


58 posted on 05/01/2025 8:24:10 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Roads To Moscow - Al Stewart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpsirhTwBSw


59 posted on 05/01/2025 8:26:32 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: piasa

Talking about civilians killed directly or starved to death, no doubt Stalin and Mao both surpass Hitler’s victims. But Hitler started WWII in Europe and the death toll from the war plus the Holocaust may surpass Stalin’s victims (but maybe not Mao’s). Not sure what the figure is for how many died because of Imperial Japan’s invasion of China followed by declaring war on the US and the British Empire.


60 posted on 05/01/2025 8:28:17 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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