[george76]

Explaining Stalin’s motives.

[beethovenfan]

And God has acted rationally in sending Stalin to hell for eternity.

[alexander_busek]

Of course Stalin acted rationally.

Many sociopaths do.

Value (to him) of 20 million souls = 0.

Value (to him) of retaining his iron grip on power = EVERYTHING.

A simple equation.

Regards,

[DBrow]

“Historians believe up to 20 million people died as a result of his actions, “

A professor in Hawai’i claims it’s twice that number.

Chilling.

And why isn’t the name Beria tossed around like Hitler’s?

[DBrow]

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM

Here it is, that was easy. He puts Stalin down for 43,000,000 murders, mostly in gulags.

[andy58-in-nh]

Apparently, they get their news from the New York Times.

[Inyo-Mono]

...an attempt backed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to re-evaluate Stalin's record in a more positive light.

Just in case we didn't know where Putin is coming from. He wants history's worse mass murderer seen in a more positve light

[FormerACLUmember]

A quote from the Putin Ministry of Truth new textbook:

"Stalin was all warm and fuzzy. He loved puppies and long walks in the park holding hands. Flowers would spontaneous bloom as Stalin walked by, even in the cold Russian winter. He brought complete peace, joy, and total wonderfulness into the world."

(N.B.: Substitute "Obama" for "Stalin" for all MSNBC or CNN reports)

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[Paperdoll]

I wouldn’t be shocked to find this book in Obama’s library.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

and seems to follow an attempt backed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to re-evaluate Stalin's record in a more positive light.

Putin really is a disaster for Russia - they shed Communism, but not their love of authoritarianism.

[SunkenCiv]

see also "The Commissar Vanishes".

Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953 by Jonathan Brent and Vladimir Naumov Hardcover: 416 pages

Reed Business Information, Inc. -- ...Brent, the editorial director of Yale University Press, and Naumov, executive secretary of Russia's Presidential Commission for the Rehabilitation of Repressed Persons, trace how Stalin himself put together false evidence of the "doctors' plot," which was far more than a simple exercise in anti-Semitism and paranoid senility. According to the authors, Stalin intended to use the "doctors' plot" to accomplish several goals: to purge his Ministry of Security and upper ranks of government; to defuse the potential threat posed by Soviet Jews, many of whom had ties to the U.S. and the new state of Israel; and to provide fuel for an armed conflict with the U.S...

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Beria by Amy Knight	Who Killed Kirov? The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery by Amy Knight

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[Carl LaFong]

Forward by Keith Olbermann.

[KarlInOhio]

I hereby declare satire is no longer possible. Just yesterday this satire came from azconservative.org:

Putin Likens Russia Move into Georgia to Stalin’s “Defensive Conquest of Poland”

Now the reforming Soviet Union is teaching that Stalin's mass murders weren't so bad after all. How can satirists like John Semmens compete with the truth?

[NYer]

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin claims he acted "rationally" in executing and imprisoning millions of people in the Gulags, a Russian school book claims.

A classical example of relativism.

The Dictators of Relativism [Open]

[WoofDog123]

” 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.

[Ptarmigan]

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.

[Ptarmigan]

Joseph Stalin was Georgian, not Russian. That made him really bitter and self-hating. Stalin was also a sex pervert and a pedophile.

[Tallguy]

It is designed for teachers to promote patriotism among the Russian young, and seems to follow an attempt backed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to re-evaluate Stalin's record in a more positive light.

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.

[wolfcreek]

“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”.