Posted on 09/05/2008 10:16:18 AM PDT by george76
” Historians believe up to 20 million people died as a result of his actions, many times more than were killed under Hitler’s...”
The author clearly failed general math. Hitler IIRC killed ~12million civilians. 20M is not ‘many times’ 12M.
Stalin may have thought that, but he is the personification of evil right there! I think Stalin killed 60 million. 20 million is too conservative of a number.
Lavarentii Beria is evil. Thankfully he was executed on Christmas Day of 1953. A gift from God for humanity right there! I don’t know why Beria’s name is tossed around like Hitler. Frankly, I get sick hearing Hitler being tossed around all the time. It’s called Godwin’s Law. I mean seriously why Hitler. Why not Stalin or Pol Pot. I think Pol Pot is extremely evil and personifies evil of the worst kind.
Joseph Stalin was Georgian, not Russian. That made him really bitter and self-hating. Stalin was also a sex pervert and a pedophile.
True. If you talk about from a percentage standpoint, Pol Pot is the worst. He killed a third of his own people and mostly it was by torture and harsh labor.
You know who else admired Stalin, Saddam Hussein. He had a real sick obessession with Stalin and worshipped like he was God. Our soldiers were disturbed and appalled by it.
I have read parts of the Black Book of Communism. Great book, but too long. It should also added Jim Jones and People’s Temple. He is behind the mass suicide of Jonestown. He was also a Stalinist and once Commies denounced him, he left because of it. Jim Jones is the personification of evil right there!
See my #6, there has been some work indicating that the number may be 40 million.
Stalin was not Russian. He was born in Georgia. If we are promoting Russian patriotism -- which is a fine thing -- why not just blame most of the excesses of the Soviet period on a foreigner? That's what he was.
My theory is that it is because there are practically no instances of National Socialism in the world today. When Hitler died & Nazi Germany was defeated that was pretty much it. Spain & a few Latin American countries excepted.
International Socialism -- or Communism -- survives to this day. You can't pick a fight with a communist in another country without drawing fire from 1 in your own country.
“It is designed for teachers to promote patriotism among the Russian young”
Sounds more like, “This could be you if you don’t follow the rules”.
If nobody except Amy Knight is writing about Beria, that would be one reason he’s not much heard of. She is the *dullest* writer since William C. Davis. Takes a story full of incredible characters and dramatic incidents and turns it into an algebra textbook.
Thanks for the link and reading.
Because Putin is no more a Russian Nationalist than Stalin was a Russian Nationalist or later a Slavophile. (Stalin resurrected Czarist propoganda to justify the Soviet occupation of eastern Europe.) Stalin is KGB and his father was NKVD. His paternal grandfather, was such a trusted communist that he was a cook for Lennin and Stalin.
Putin's actions prove this more each day. He's Russian, but that's way down the list. He's really just a ganster/dictator sucking his countries wealth through control of it's major export: oil & natural gas. I'd like to see the balance of his Swiss Banc account. He's probably the richest man in the world.
The West better wake up, do it very quickly and confront the Kremlin armed & supported Axis of Evil, at its source --- Moscow!
Stalin was ethnically Russian, and came from a then Russian controlled territory.
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