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To: jb6

It's simply wrong to put monument to Stalin--the worst mass murder of the 20th century anywhere. There are plenty of WWII real heroes that could be commemorated.


61 posted on 04/01/2005 7:32:32 AM PST by sergey1973 (Russian American Political Blogger, Arm Chair Strategist)
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To: sergey1973
There is a difference. If you put up a monument to Stalin alone, then yes. But this is a moment in history. What would you do, take Stalin out of that historic moment? Then you can't just put Roosovelt and Churchhill up, that would be silly, as silly as a lot of myths here in the US that the Russian front was a minor skirmish and the real fighting was in Normandy.

Stalin was evil, that is true, he erased people out of pictures and history. But removing him from the context he is in is doing the same thing he did, revise history to get rid of the inconvinences, equally wrong.

62 posted on 04/01/2005 8:00:10 AM PST by jb6 (Truth == Christ)
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To: sergey1973
It's simply wrong to put monument to Stalin--the worst mass murder of the 20th century anywhere. There are plenty of WWII real heroes that could be commemorated.

And when you think that Roosevelt and Churchill were included in the monument at Volgograd that tells me they were only honoring his actions at Volgograd, not the man.
68 posted on 04/01/2005 8:52:28 AM PST by GarySpFc (Sneakypete, De Oppresso Liber)
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