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To: GovernmentShrinker
Perhaps I could get more worked up about this if the city of Gori wasn't STILL promoting Stalin worship...

I apologize if I have misinterpreted your post but it seems that you feel Georgian reverence for Stalin somehow justifies the current Russian aggression.

If so, please consider the following:

A lot of people in Tennessee still revere Nathan Bedford Forrest, the great Confederate cavalry commander. Before the Civil War Mr. Forrest was a trader in slaves. During the Civil War General Forrest was the author of the Fort Pillow massacre against Union troops who were attempting to surender. After the war Mr. Forrest was one of the founders of the KKK.

Queen Elizabeth the First of England ran a religious police state that oppressed Catholics, butchered thousands of innocent Irish civilians, murdered Spanish war prisoners and used piracy as a tool of national policy.

Joseph Stalin was a beast, responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people. After Mao he ranks second on the long list of 20th century butchers.

That said, if you think the reverence of the Georgian people for Stalin justifies the current Russian aggression, do you think similar attacks against Tennessee or England would be similarly justified?

59 posted on 08/15/2008 10:38:38 AM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF ("Gun Control" is not about the guns. "Illegal Immigration" is not about the immigration)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

It’s certainly not justified, nor is it the reason. But it does call into question how innocent the Georgians are in all this. There’s NOTHING to revere about Stalin. And while maintaining historical sites such as a former home of a murderous dictator accompanied by exhibits that emphasize how horrible he was could be attributed to an honest desire to teach important lessons of history, the giant outdoor statue of him suggests other motives. Having been personally acquainted with someone who had to flee Stalin’s Russia as a child, with his mother literally having to pick undigested bits of grain out of horse manure to get enough calories to keep herself and her son alive, the idea of people openly revering Stalin today makes me sick. And it certainly makes me question whether this invasion really fits the simplistic story plot that much of the media is giving it — that of big evil Putin-Russia invading and brutalizing innocent/pure/democratic Georgia.


64 posted on 08/16/2008 5:01:57 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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