I'am ready!!!
Posted on 02/18/2010 12:07:17 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
As the Kremlin sends out invitations to world leaders to attend a Victory Day parade in Red Square on May 9, Moscow officials plan to set up large "information stands" in places where Russian veterans traditionally meet their war buddies.
Previously, veterans were free to attend the celebrations with their own pictures of Stalin if they wished, but this will be first time since Soviet times that the authorities will be providing information on his role, which remains an issue of heated debate in modern Russia.
"This is an insult for the millions of those who perished on the fronts of this war due to Stalin's stupid and criminal orders," Lyudmila Alexeyeva, 82, a leading Soviet-era dissident said in remarks broadcast by Russia's NTV channel.
"I am saying this only because my father was among those millions," said Alexeyeva, a recipient of the European Parliament's top rights award.
But Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov lauded Moscow officials for their "undoubtedly correct and courageous" decision to give out information on Stalin.
The communists, Russia's largest opposition party, have used the historical yearning of Russians for strong rulers and nostalgia for "the great Soviet Union," which Stalin turned from an illiterate peasant nation into a nuclear superpower.
COMMUNISTS REJOICE
"For the first time over the past 20 years, we will brush off this hypocrisy ... when the authorities would forget to tell the Russians who was the Soviet Union's supreme commander and under whose leadership this victory was attained," he said in remarks posted on the party's Web site www.kprf.ru.
"We must be honest to the end and recognize by declaring -- first and foremost to the younger generation -- that this great victory would have never been possible without Generalissimo Stalin," Zyuganov said.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Stalin billboards to mark Russia's WWII victory - February 17, 2010 - Billboards praising Josef Stalin for leading the Soviet victory against Nazi Germany are to go up across Moscow as Russia marks 65 years since the end of World War II, news agencies said Wednesday.Rights groups immediately denounced the billboard campaign, which the Moscow organizers said was launched at the request of veterans groups.
"We are going to protest against this in every way possible," Lyudmila Alexeyeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, told Interfax.
"Those who want to put up portraits of Stalin in Moscow would like to see a return to the state terror of the Stalinist period."
The Soviets won in spite of Stalin.
I certainly would expect Obama to make a state appearance at this one. It would be an appropriate gesture to celebrate FDRs old partners.
They should praise those who fought and died for that bloody victory. To hell with Stalin.
With bountiful munitions and food supplied from the United States.
Also, Stalin bears as much responsibility for starting the war as Hitler, when he signed the Non-Aggression Pact. He did it, because he wanted to buy time before he would launch an offensive attack around 1943, when according to his plan, the British, French and German armies in the West would be exhausted.
Remember: Most Russians were not "victims" of Communism. Most went along with it and did nothing to stop the revolution. The Russian population ultimately brought everything on themselves, I don't care what the Onion Domers say about a Jewish run coup d'etat.
A chance for Hussein to meet new comrades.
Stalin killed more Russians and communists than Hitler ever dreamed of, yet some Russians still worship him.
He set up the disaster in summer of 1941 due to the purges of the 1930s and giving commands to his cronies. But give him credit he learned his lesson and let Zhukov, etc do their jobs; as long as the ultimate glory was Stalin’s. Although Stalin did put pressure on his generals to perform; the casualities required to get the job done within Stalin’s timeline was of no importance.
There are also the relatives of 20000 Polish officers who will not be attending.
How true. A co-worker of mine, her grandfather was one of those officers.
Those commerating Uncle Joe should review the Winter War
http://kaiku.com/winterwar.html
He and Hitler signed the treaty giving most of Poland to Germany and giving Stalin free run in the Balkins and Finland. Stalin thought he wanted Finland back and attacked in Dec. 1939. The Finns had de-Bolsheviked themselves and wanted no part of that and defended themselves. At a cost of about a million soldiers Stalin successfully annex part of the country but most of the country remained independent. Hitler saw that and decided that the Soviets were a paper tiger. The rest is history.
*Those commerating Uncle Joe should review the Winter War*
If Stalin hadn’t attacked Finland and received a bitter lesson about then-modern winter warfare, the USSR would’ve lost the battles at Stalingrad, Leningrad and Moscow.
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