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Russia’s Darkness at Noon
Front Page Magazine ^
| July 22, 200
| By Jamie Glazov
Posted on 08/19/2005 10:09:07 AM PDT by spanalot
A new resurgence of nostalgia for Joseph Stalin is reverberating throughout Russia. As recently reported by the Telegraph, new monuments in several Russian communities are being erected to honor the genocidal Soviet dictator who liquidated millions of Soviet citizens.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: communism; nostalgia; putin; stalin
Things are going down hill in the land of Putin - artist formerly know as communist
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posted on
08/19/2005 10:09:10 AM PDT
by
spanalot
To: spanalot
Nostalgia for power/relevance.
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posted on
08/19/2005 10:10:31 AM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: spanalot
How appropriate. I am listening to the book now. I am at the point where he is sparring with his former army superior.
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posted on
08/19/2005 10:10:32 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
To: spanalot; jb6
That's because most people who were alive during Stalin's reign of terror aren't alive today.
JV Stalin (1879-1953)
To: spanalot
"Visit ot youga volosatogo
Do lysoi tundry ledyanoi
Ten' nezabvennogo usatogo
Nad zakoldovannoi stranoi"
Igor Guberman
From its hairy South
To bald icy tundra
The unforgettable mustachioed shadow [i.e. Stalin's]
Hangs over accursed country...
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posted on
08/19/2005 10:16:09 AM PDT
by
GSlob
To: FairOpinion; spanalot
Take that one step further, almost all the people who were responsible for the slaughters were themselves slaughtered by Stalin. Stalin killed off the first 3 heads of the NKVD/KGB and the last one under him: Beria, was executed for crimes against humanity by Krushchov.
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posted on
08/19/2005 10:27:04 AM PDT
by
jb6
(The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
To: ValenB4; anonymoussierra; zagor-te-nej; Freelance Warrior; kedr; Sober 4 Today; BrooklynGOP; ...
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posted on
08/19/2005 10:28:29 AM PDT
by
jb6
(The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
To: spanalot
Russians seem to relish in self destructive behavior.
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posted on
08/19/2005 10:39:37 AM PDT
by
Kirkwood
To: Kirkwood
What a country!
- Yakoff Smrinov
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posted on
08/19/2005 11:04:09 AM PDT
by
Wally_Kalbacken
(Seldom right, but never in doubt.)
To: jb6
"Like a dog to his vomit..."
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posted on
08/19/2005 11:05:47 AM PDT
by
Spirited
To: Kirkwood
Russians seem to relish in self destructive behavior.As a friend of mine once said after taking a Russian history class, "The Russians have always been the Russians." They're not happy unless they're miserable and they revere a strong leader, regardless of how many of their own he kills.
From Ivan to Stalin, twas ever thus.
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posted on
08/19/2005 11:09:17 AM PDT
by
Heyworth
To: spanalot
Here is my letter to the author of the article you posted:
Mr. Glazov,
My name is Gary Butner, and I am married to a Russian lady from Volzhsky. Volzhsky is directly across the Volga River from Volgograd, where we maintain a second home, and so naturally we are in Russia frequently. Indeed, my wife has been in Volzhsky since June 13, and will be returning September 12.
The Telegraph article regarding resurgence of nostalgia for Stalin is an outright falsehood. The monument by Zurab Tsereteli was rejected by the Crimea, Moscow, and when we contacted the individual in charge of monuments for Volgograd (Stalingrad), he did not even know anything about it, nor were they were interested in it.
Additionally, there is one disfigured statue of Stalin in Moscow, and another was recently erected in Siberia. Furthermore, all of the Russians I have ever met hated Stalin. My wifes father taught his children Stalin was evil back in the fifties.
My wife was a child psychologist and director of a large kindergarten in Volzhsky for children, 6 months to 6 years. She also graduated from an Orthodox lay seminary. At President Putins direction my wife and others wrote a Bible curriculum for the public schools, which was written into into law and signed by him as an option for schools. That is far more than the ACLU would ever allow in America. Putin is also reported to be a Christian, and from a couple of statements I believe that to be true. Granted he is a soft authoritarian, however he is hardly the dictator you and others like to paint
but that does not sell books.
Sincerely,
Gary Butner, Th.D.
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posted on
08/19/2005 12:02:33 PM PDT
by
GarySpFc
(Sneakypete, De Oppresso Liber)
To: Spirited
"Like a dog to his vomit..." Is that what draws you to these threads? Explains a lot.
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posted on
08/19/2005 1:46:38 PM PDT
by
jb6
(The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
To: jb6
I must have misinterpreted your, "Here we go again".
I did not know that you are a Stalinist which is the conclusion to which I can come as a result of your rude reply.
The Russian admiration for the murderous Stalin is what I thought your, "Here we go again" referred. My own remark in reply was that the Russians have to return to advmiration of the murderers..."like a dog.."
Your reply is equally revelatory.
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posted on
08/19/2005 7:01:41 PM PDT
by
Spirited
To: spanalot
All this article is just hoax. If you put so much fictions as reality that it is your problem.
It is pity that the lyings of cold-war type began to float again. Nothing good will do.
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posted on
08/20/2005 12:26:41 AM PDT
by
RusIvan
To: Spirited
The Russian admiration for the murderous Stalin is what I thought your, "Here we go again" referred.==
The problem is thatthere no admirations for Stalin in Russia. You conclude on base of stupid or lying articles which just deceive you.
That is the problem. Telegraph jornalists has to be tried in court for libel.
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posted on
08/20/2005 12:29:17 AM PDT
by
RusIvan
To: Spirited
I'm not a Stalinist, my Russian wife is not one either and absolutely no one I know in Russia is one. My statement was aimed at one more slanted story in a long list of trashing hit piece articles that have very little to do with reality. If Russians were such Stalinists/Communists, the Russian Communist party wouldn't be loosing seats in each election. Putin's adversaries wouldn't be giving interviews in Russia calling him Hitler/Stalin/Calligula/Attila/etc and there wouldn't be demonstrations all over the place. But why bother with the facts when a good old hate is so much easier on the mind?
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posted on
08/20/2005 1:51:40 AM PDT
by
jb6
(The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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