Posted on 12/16/2019 9:50:46 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
A cafe in a museum in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, has stopped selling chocolate bars with the portrait of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on its cover after a public outcry.
The museum's administration told RFE/RL on December 16 that it pulled the chocolates from the cafe's shelves after it learned they were on sale in its cafe via the Internet.
According to the museum’s press service, the administration of the museum was unaware that the cafe's owner had bought such chocolate bars.
A day earlier, a Facebook user named Vadim Fialko placed a photo of the bar with Stalin's portrait on his account noting he got it in the museum's cafe along with his coffee.
“[They say] a theater starts with its cloakroom, well, the Russian Museum started with its cafe for us and made a lasting impression on us. When the waitress said my cappuccino came with Stalin, I thought I misheard. But when I saw it, I was bloody dazed!" Fialko wrote.
Fialko's post went viral, sparking the outcry.
In recent months, monuments to Stalin have been unveiled in numerous places across Russia, while he has been presented by state media and officials as "a successful manager" who led the Soviets to victory over Nazi Germany as part of a Kremlin effort to glorify the Soviet past.
Millions of people were executed, sent to labor camps in Siberia and Kazakhstan, or starved to death in famines caused by the forced collectivization during Stalin's reign.
During World War II, entire ethnic groups were sent to Central Asia as collective punishment for what the Kremlin said was collaboration with Nazi Germany.
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Is the wrapper marked 30 grams, but there’s only 20 inside?
The Soviets defeated Nazi Germany, in spite of Stalin.
I think they probably just mispronounced “stolen”.
..."We hadn't time to kill them all!"
Deliberately starved to death 7 million Ukrainians:
The Holomodor.
What about the Hitler cream puffs?
“Russian Museum Cafe Stops Selling Stalin Chocolate After Outcry”
i’m surprised that they’re selling any at all anyway ... i heard that Stalin Chocolates promises to increase the portion size by 5% every month for the same price, but instead, the candy bar SHRINKS 5% and the price INCREASES 10% every month instead ...
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The most important spy in history, certainly in the past 100 years, was the spy who saved Stalin:
He was posted in Japan. He learned from the Third Reich that Japan had no plans to attack Stalin.
That was important because up until that point very many of Stalin’s troops were simply waiting around in the East, protecting against the possibility of a Japanese attack there.
The precious report meant Stalin could rush all those troops to Stalingrad at a critical time. Without the report, Stalin might have lost.
After the Japanese caught this spy, Stalin stepped in and saved the hero, right..?
No, Stalin didn’t:
He did ZERO to save him and he was hung.
U MEEN Russians have a conscience?
Poor Ukraimoans.
Would the Russians cheat? I’m shocked!
Did you forget the weather and the Nazis ran out of supplies? How about Russia using US equipment?
At only a few rubles each, Stalin bars are practically a steel.
(As Joel Hodgson said, the right people will get it.)
I thought it was 14 million.
I think the Soviets still would have won with much fewer casualties with another leader. Stalin just threw bodies at the Nazis, of course the Soviets’ manpower advantage was going to ultimately win out.
They always make Stalin out to be a tall guy:
He was 5”5’, maybe less.
I just saw a media whine about Trump Chocolate bars at an airport souvenir shop.
The same manufacturer also makes Obama Chocolate bars.
Obama Chocolate bars were marked down to a couple or bucks or so.
Can’t remember what the going rate is for the Trump ones.
Here’s a link to one of the stories about the original whiner’s (Malcolm Nance) tweet: https://www.dailywire.com/news/lefties-latest-freak-out-trump-chocolate-bars
Are the Obama bars dark chocolate, white chocolate, or milk chocolate? LOL
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