Hey Vlad — Communism and Nazism are just two sides of the same coin!
I believe Stalin is still the record holder with 20 million victims.
Did he forget to compare Saddam Hussein?
Jackass.
I see right through you, comrade Putin.
He makes a fool of himself everytime he opens his mouth.
Yeah, the commies in Vietnam were really hideous, Mr. Putin. In fact, commies everywhere have been pure evil scum. But Stalin still ranks high (low) among the worst scumbags in history, and none of your propaganda will change the facts.
“Speaking with the teachers, Putin suggested the United States’ use of atomic weapons against Japan at the end of World War II was worse than the abuses of Stalin. He also cited the U.S. bombing campaign and use the defoliant Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.”
Was this really Putin talking, or was it one of the Democratic candidates for President?
Putin could be a Fellow at the Center For American Progress. See if the FEC records show any contributions to MoveOn.org.
“we had no black pages such as Nazism” If Germany had not been galvanized by someone or something to fight soviet totalitarianism to the death, Comrade Putin would be slave master of the world now , instead of having to defend his his unredeemed nations rush to a new totalitarianism. Peace on him and his henchmen.
I understand not wanting to make you Country look bad, but Pooy Poot, you are wrong as two boys ....
He admits doing evil things, but he does not want to feel guilty about doing them.
So what is to stop you from doing evil things in the future, Vlad ?
::Sigh:: Yet another historical revisionist, this time for the epicenter of World Communism, which has gotten away mostly scot free for its crimes!
This Putin is turning out to be one PITA. That he would excuse the excesses of Stalinism and then lament the demise of the USSR would cause me to think he would like nothing better than to resurrect that fowl system.
The USSR provided quite a bit of training for the Luftwaffe, and there were many, many ties between the SS and other parts of the Wehrmacht and the Soviets. The partitioning of Poland in this sense was a deal between partners.
A number of historians believe Hitler and the Nazis got their ideas for the Holocaust from the Soviet pogroms and the willfull starvation of millions of small private farmers - the kulaks - the Nazis were flabbergasted that the rest of the world ignored the death of so many millions and (thanks in good measure to Walter Duranty of the New York Times) actually fawned over the Soviet totalitarian state.
The Nazis assumed that there would be the same indifference shown if they killed Jews, Gypsies and other political undesirables on mass scale - in a sense, they were right - the world was pretty much in denial about first the rumors, then the mounting evidence of the Nazi atrocities.
The Communists, so dearly beloved by so many leftist Jews, are thus responsible for the Holocaust by executing its immediate precursor, the mass killings and starvation of millions.
Putin is quickly burning up any shred of credibility he ever might have had -- sound to me that things in the new USSR aren't going quite they way the old KGB hands who put Putin in power thought they would. Seems to me Putin in starting to sound like Cindy Sheehan...
Putin sounds more and more like a stock Soviet apparatchik or nomenklatura member from the bad old days, justifying his pathetic existence from atop a mountain of corpses.
Joseph Brodsky nails the type in one of his essays from the collection “On Grief and Reason”, describing an East Bloc literary function and the creatures in attendance with their moral equivalency, trumped up phony outrage at western “crimes” and “demands” for this or that in furtherence of Soviet policy goals.
Brodsky made perceptive if unflattering observations about western fellow travelers and agents of influence attending such events, revealing them as self hating professional malcontents and witting dupes, ie., softheads and traitors.
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President Vladimir Putin has raised the prospect of a return to Soviet-style academic censorship after he accused the West of plotting to distort Russian history in an attempt to crush patriotic sentiment in schools.
The Russian leader claimed that a generation of schoolchildren was learning a version of their past that had been deliberately skewed by historians in the pay of the West.
"Many of our textbooks are written by people on foreign grants," Mr Putin told history and science teachers at a conference outside Moscow.
"They are dancing a polka ordered by those who pay for it. This is undoubtedly an instrument for influencing our country."
In a warning that will send a chill through Russia's dwindling ranks of liberal academics, the president indicated that publishing houses that did not print more patriotic textbooks would face state censorship.
"Publishing houses should become more responsible," he said. "The state should play a greater role in this respect." According to the president, Western historians have attempted to belittle the Soviet Union's role in World War II and exaggerate the negative aspects of Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s, which saw millions of Russians die.
He said Russia's past was much more benign and much less blood-soaked than that of the United States.