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[Russian] President Medvedev Blasts Stalin Defenders
BBC News ^
| 10/30/2009
| BBC News
Posted on 10/30/2009 9:17:01 AM PDT by goldstategop
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has made an outspoken attack on those seeking to rehabilitate former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Millions of Soviet citizens died under Stalin's rule and Mr Medvedev said it was not possible to justify those who exterminated their own people.
He also warned against efforts to falsify history and defend repression.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Russia
KEYWORDS: dmitrimedvedev; neostalinism; remembranced; russian
I wonder how long Dmitri Medvedev will be Russia's President after he denounced the neo-Stalin resurgence in Russia. There is a tendency to see Stalin as a strong leader when he was a brutal tyrant and mass murderer. The past must not be forgotten and history must be not falsified to justify repression and the wholesale denial of human rights. On this Medvedev is absolutely correct.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
To: goldstategop
If only we had a President who would denounce the neo-Mao resurgence in America.
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posted on
10/30/2009 9:18:58 AM PDT
by
NavVet
("You Lie!")
To: goldstategop
You could Substitute Liberal Democrats for Stalin and it would still be accurate...
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posted on
10/30/2009 9:20:08 AM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Lets get dangerous)
To: goldstategop
His statement is most likely for western consumption
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posted on
10/30/2009 9:28:58 AM PDT
by
dimk
To: goldstategop
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posted on
10/30/2009 9:30:06 AM PDT
by
Cheburashka
(Stephen Decatur: you want barrels of gunpowder as tribute, you must expect cannonballs with it.)
To: darkwing104
The “liberal democrats” and the left in general
ARE Stalin apologists.
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posted on
10/30/2009 9:31:13 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: goldstategop
I was deployed to Uzbekistan in 2004 and listened in horror as a very attractive 22-year-old Uzbek girl said to me, “I want you to know one thing: I admire Josef Stalin!” She too saw him as a strong leader of a huge and respected world power.
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posted on
10/30/2009 9:38:32 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
To: Cheburashka
He speaks as a human being, as a religious believer and as a Russian. Remembering the victims of Communist terror is an important objective. The Russian people won the Great Patriotic War not because of but despite Stalin. Its easy to use a great victory to justify repression, mass murder and absolute terror. There is such a tendency in Russia. And it must be countered and those who perished must be commemorated and not forgotten.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
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posted on
10/30/2009 9:51:46 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
stalin’s hyper-paranoid purges in the 30’s very nearly lost the great patriotic war for russia before it ever began. Zhukov was quite lucky to be in the far east until called to the western front.
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