Posted on 03/04/2005 1:13:47 PM PST by Grzegorz 246
The other 50% are dead.
I read somewhere that Russians are fond vodka enimas too.
Yes, to have been captured by Germany made them "traitors" to the NKVD. Even Russian slave laborers "liberated" by the Soviets were often sent to the Soviet prison camps.
And the Tartars, the Cossacks, the Poles of Ukraine, the Volga Germans and many many others.
People get the government they deserve. This poll, unfortunately, tells me the future of Demcracy in Russia is not very promising.
Mussolini made the trains run on time and Hitler built the autobahnen; those were positive things, right..?
What is with some people?
You'll be hearing from the Ogre Anti-Defamation League.
It must be the 50% of the population that he didn't murder.
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This is the "mentality" we are dealing with in our current relations with Russia. No wonder they support Islamo-fascism (as long as its outside their own borders). Russia will continue to wallow in their own sewage until they come to grips with the horrific criminality of their past.
--Boot Hill
Aldo the brainwashed ones and the ones that directly bene fit for being a part of the intelligentsia.
And because of Stalin's terror the Soviet R&D cycle lost 5 years. When Barbarossa hit, most Soviet equipment was stuff that had been first rate in 1934-1937.
There is a lot of schadenfreude in the Russian national character. A delight in seeing the high brought low. They want a Stalin to shoot the oligarchs who got rich while they suffered during the Yeltsin era.
Gee, do 50% of Germans positively assess Hitler's role. Do 50% of Cambodians positively assess Pol Pot's role? Probably not.
OMG!! The Russkies have more gulags than the Nazis have concentration camps!!!!
I will not even consider arguing in favor of what Stalin did or did not politically or militarily.
The point I was making is that the Russians , that is, not the Americans nor the Euros or any are others, are the ones remembering directly or historically a leader who saved them.
The responses top my post were not from a Russian viewpoint.
That's not necessarily clear cut. For those areas that experienced German occupation, there were at least some folks there who hoped they'd never go back to USSR rule. They were hoping that the Western Allies would invade Europe earlier, and would keep going clear into Eastern Europe including the Baltics, Belarus, and Ukraine. At that point, on to Moscow.
Wow, that map really brings it home. Even I am shocked by how many there were / are. Sad.
It should be noted that anyone around to participate in the poll wasn't murdered by Stalin so the sampling method is a bit skewed. I suggest next time they ask some of those frozen corpses near Siberian gulags they unearth from time to time.
not many americans complained when comrade reno illegally used u.s. military tanks to run over and kill innocent americans at waco.
the clintons got by with it, and the mrs. will the next u.s. president.
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