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NYCLU: Why was Stalin banner removed from school?
The Associated Press ^ | 11-14-08 | MARCUS FRANKLIN

Posted on 11/14/2008 8:48:43 PM PST by Nick Thimmesch

NEW YORK -- The New York Civil Liberties Union has demanded that city officials explain why they ordered a private art school to remove a banner displaying an image of Josef Stalin.

In a letter Thursday to the Department of Buildings, NYCLU executive director Donna Lieberman expressed concern that the banner was taken down from The Cooper Union after some residents of the local Ukrainian community complained that it "seemed to promote" the Soviet dictator on the 75th anniversary of a famine he imposed. The famine, called the Holodomor, killed millions of Ukrainians.

The banner was part of an art exhibit, "Stalin by Picasso, or Portrait of Woman with Mustache." Lene Berg, the artist who created the banner, said it was intended to provoke discussion about the relationship between art and politics.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Russia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: anniversary; communists; famine; holodomor; nyclu; stalin; ukraine
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To: Seven plus One

The only difference between Che and Stalin is that Che was killed off before he got power.

Otherwise, the mentality is the same. A failed mass murdering maniac is easier to make ‘hip’ than any succesful one like Stalin or Hitler.


21 posted on 11/14/2008 10:42:45 PM PST by MartinStyles
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To: Nick Thimmesch
Obama™ doesn't like competition.
22 posted on 11/15/2008 8:43:12 AM PST by George Smiley (Palin is the real deal.)
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To: Cacique

Bump for later


23 posted on 11/15/2008 4:29:15 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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