Joseph Stalin, Ruthless Marxist Dictator, 73, Dies [OBITUARY]

The New York Times ^ | March 6, 1953 | Staff

[bray]

Ol Joe was a fairly decent fellow. Only murdered about 20 million of his own citizens. Far better fellow than President Ronald Magnus Reagan, according to the NYPravda Times.

Pray for GW and Our Troops

[tet68]

. All that became known of the daughter was her name, Svetlana, and her intellectual interests.

As I recall she moved to the United States.??

[plusone]

"Stalin kept his grip on power through a combination of character, guile and good luck..." Who wrote this drivel? Stalin kept his grip on power by murdering millions. He managed to kill more Soviets then Hitler, and considering the inefficiencies of the Soviet system, this was an accomplishment. Some estimate that he murdered over 30 million of his own citizenry. Stalin took his name from the Russian word for steel--'stahl'. His name means approximately in English 'made from steel'. During the Ukrainian Holocaust of the early 1930's, various western journalists traveled thru Ukraine to investigate whether these unbelievable rumors (at least to the leftist press) were true. One of the worst of the lot was Charles Durranty. He was a kept man, bribed, and pandered to by Stalin, who gave him a Moscow apartment and access to pretty Russian girls. Duranty wrote at length in the NY Times (IIRC) about the paradise that papa Joe was creating, and that rumors of attrocities were just capitalist propaganda. Keep in mind that during the early 30's, the politcal/economic system of the west was not very popular amongst the working class. Duranty fed into this distrust and helped cover up one of the biggest crimes in history, the systematic murder of perhaps 9 million Ukrainians, the Kulaks--private farmers who resisted Stalin's genius plan to collectivize agriculture. To this day, the Times has refused to acknowledge their complicity in this crime, a precursor to the Jewish Holocaust ten years later.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Just a little history, bot-boy. Something to un-numb your mind...

Having lived through it I recall the events quite well. I didn't need a history lesson. However, I suppose it might be informative to others.

Because of the intense activity of the left at present, especially in a time of active war, I just wondered about the purpose of posting something so distorted and flattering to a leading Communist historic figure. Others less informed may view this a an accurate portrait. Still others, in light of our failed education system and indifference to current events, may not notice this was a 1953 article. I simply asked the purpose for the post but at least it gave you an opportunity to be snide.

[plusone]

I recall a radio interview with her maybe ten years back. She was a truly troubled woman, having finally realized that her father, who she thought was kindly, had perpetrated the murder of millions. She finally converted to Catholicism, and joined a nunnery.

[plusone]

His death may not have been of natural causes. The rumors started circulating almost immediately after his death that Stalin had in fact been poisoned. Just slightly before his death, he had given another of his infamous speaches where he prepared the party faithful for yet one more purge. The evening he died. Convenient. One theory is that it was Beria who had organized his assasination. The interesting thing about the article is the number of times that Stalin was caught and jailed before the revolution. So many chances to rid the world of this pest...

[Drew68]

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