[TigerClaws]

The New York Times has yet to retract its stories of the era praising Stalin.

Major props to Trump today for calling out socialism and communism as failures.

[nickcarraway]

Hypocrite. Why doesn’t he oppose socialism in this country? Because it profits him.

[a fool in paradise]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1000696/posts
Ed Asner claims that Joseph Stalin was “misunderstood”!
2003

Ed Asner, the ultra-socialist actor, was recently asked if he had the chance to play the biographical story of a person from history whom he respected the most in his lifetime, who would it be? His answer:

“I think Joe Stalin was a guy that was hugely misunderstood,” said Asner. “And to this day, I don’t think I have ever seen an adequate job done of telling the story of Joe Stalin, so I guess my answer would have to be Joe Stalin.”

[dsc]

Four million? That number just keeps getting smaller and smaller.

[Billthedrill]

Koba the Dread: Laughter and the 20 Million. Martin Amis's indictment of Stalin and his defenders, one of whom was Amis's own father, one of whom was, for a time, his friend Christopher Hitchens. There were Soviet records, there were eyewitnesses, and still they refused to believe.

[Fiji Hill]

Caveat lector Anne Applebaum is a rabid Never-Trumper.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The conflict between Hitler and Stalin that started with Barbarossa ended with Hitler’s death, which was a blessing for the world. It’s a pity that it couldn’t have also ended Stalin’s life - as it is, he continued on for years after the end of WWII, taking countless more lives as he devoured Eastern Europe.

[Slyfox]

I have a friend who escaped Ukraine as an older child. He said that the commies went into people’s homes and took food out of their cupboards.

[Widget Jr]

ForYourChildren listed some recent NYT articles about communism/socialism here Trump Stuns U.N. Chamber: The Problem in Venezuela Is ‘Socialism Has Been Faithfully Implemented’. No links, cut and paste urls.

[Impy]

1)Mao
2)Stalin
3)Hitler

In terms of how many they murdered.

[Repeal 16-17]

The New York Times has yet to retract its stories of the era praising Stalin.

Why would it? The Slimes feels the same way about Comrade Stalin as it did in the 1930s.

[buffaloguy]

During this period as well as in the 1920s there was cannibalism. It was a truly desperate situation.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Article about Pete Seeger - Stalin's Songbird - in, of all places, The Guardian! Go figure. I guess they employ a token conservative columnist.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Although it's not mentioned in the book review, Ukraine in the 30s was I think the only place to ever see a large outbreak of deaths by black mold. They were so starved that they ate moldy grains from the fields, and so ingested huge amounts of black mold and died by the thousands, if not the tens of 1000s.

The legacy of that statistic is still seen today in the US, when mold-removal outfits try to scare you into spending 5 figures on mold mitigation procedures to your home (replace all carpet, drywall, subfloor, etc) by telling you of the huge numbers of people who have "died from black mold," not mentioning that nearly 100% of those deaths were from the Ukraine and similar starving populaces.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"The famine that struck Ukraine in late 1932 and 1933 was one of the most lethal catastrophes in European history.  "

And man made. It was a result of Stalin's collectivism, a concept which liberals still aspire to. Stalin targeted farmers, taking all their crop, even the seed for next year's crop. When the starving farmers tried to move to the cities to beg for food, the military came and forced them back to their farms to die. The Black Book of Communism recounts it in detail.

Most of the crops that were taken weren't redistributed as per communism's ideal, but sold on the international market, and the money spent by the government.

[Larry381]

The people of the Ukraine should elect statues to British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge. Originally attracted to communism, Muggeridge, while a correspondent in Moscow decided to investigate rumors of famine in the Ukraine & in the Caucasus.
He sent his reports back to England by diplomatic pouch where they were published (under a pseudonym)
It was to deny Muggeridge's claims about a famine that Walter Duranty won his poisoned Pulitizer Prize.

[Larry381]

A true story some might find interesting.
In the summer of 1941 during the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a German infantry unit came across an abandoned village in the Ukraine. The cottages were overgrown with foliage but were otherwise in tolerable condition. As they searched the place they came across a root cellar with signs of having been recently lived in. It turned out that a former collective farmer, who had lived in the village was still alive and still living there.The recluse was dressed in rags and was clearly insane. From what the Germans could determine the farmer's whole family had starved to death years before along with many other inhabitants of this out-of-the-way village.The rest had apparently disappeared. The unit found a graveyard with about 40 graves, many of them dating from the early thirties. The Germans fed the farmer and left him a small package of food when they abandoned the godforsaken village.

[Dr. Ursus]

There’s a movie “Bitter Harvest” on this subject.

[Skooz]

bfl

[Lurker]

Neither of the owners of the company I work for have forgotten. They lost many family members.

L

[Jimmy Valentine]

The “Holodomor” actually killed more than 10 million Ukrainians by their count. It was a vicious effort to get the Ukrainian people under control. By the way, the Ukrainians haven’t forgotten or forgiven it either.