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“Liberofascists always look back fondly to Russia in 1917, when the communist socialist state was born. They forget about and even defend the horrific suffering the system imposed upon millions, and the twenty million it murdered.”

Amen to that! I took a month long trip to Russia several years ago and let me tell you it’s quite a place… It’s huge! While I spent some time in Moscow; the majority of time was spent east of the Ural Mountains in western Siberia… One day I wanted to drive to see the monument on top of the Urals divide; where Europe meets Asia to get a photo having one foot in Europe, the other in Asia.

While driving to the monument we came upon a HUGE and I mean HUGE cross by the side of the highway; it had to be several stories tall; it was simply gigantic… I asked my host what it was for and he told me it was a monument to the victims of the Stalin purges from the local area. I asked to stop and check it out. There was a large park with paths through the heavily forested area, it was beautiful, and it was serene… All along the many, many paths were short brick walls and on the walls were bronze tablets listing the names of thousands and thousands of the victims of Stalin… The paths went on and on and on through the forest and I walked for quite sometime before it hit me… All of these people had been murdered in 1937 and 1938… It was shocking and I’ll never ever forget it… Tens of thousands of names, victims all, and from just this one area… They are not forgotten either; relatives still place flowers in remembrance of their loved ones along the paths…