Why Russia is putting Stalin back on to his pedestal

Telegraph ^ | 20/04/2005 | Nick Allen

[quietolong]

Sounds just like the voters for kerry

[Quixotical]

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[anonymoussierra]

Russia information news ping Thank you I do not want write now Thank you

[Destro]

Fake editorial with an anti Russian agenda - creating an invented story that Stalin admiration is making a comeback using the backdrop of a statue of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta as proof.

Clumsy propaganda attempt. Fools the predisposed simpletons though.

[anonymoussierra]

Thank you"Destro"

[jb6]

There you go again confusing Tailgunner Joe (McCarthy)'s lies with facts. Stop that. He's posted stuff about this same statue enough times and each one for his anti-Russian obsession.

[Destro]

Stalin was the most prolific mass murderer in history and he did all his killing for the promotion of communist ideology.

Actually, Stalin comes in second to Hitler.

From: Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls

The Black Book of Communism seems to vote for Hitler as the answer to the question of who's worse, Hitler (25M) or Stalin (20M).

[sergey1973]

The tragedy is that Russia did not came through an honest reassessment about Stalin era as Germany did about Hitler era. That's why Stalin nostalgia is resurgent among certain segments of Russian society.

[spinestein]

[Stalin was the most prolific mass murderer in history...]

[Actually, Stalin comes in second to Hitler.]



Thanks for the post and the link to backing info (very informative).

It is kind of hard to make a choice, though. Hitler was primarily concerned with purging the human race of everyone who wasn't genetically like him, while Stalin was trying to eliminate all of his ideological opposition. Which one was MORE evil?

Perhaps the millions of Soviets who starved to death are not directly attributable to Stalin, but realistically speaking, once the number of deaths gets up into the multiple millions, it just becomes piling on to criticize. /grim humor (not laughing)

[RusIvan]

The statue in Volgograd is NOT meant to honor Stalin in any way, but the victory of the allies in WWII. That is why Churchill and FDR are included. Furthermore, the poll quoted in the article is skewed. Less than 5% in Volgograd support communism.==

I confirm it. In Volgograd they want to commemorate ALL three of ally leaders. Roosevelt, Cherchill and Stalin. It is about victory of WW2.