To this day, the men and women who fought in the Great Patriotic War are considered in major heroes in Russia.
They were.
Then they raped anything that moved.
I have mixed feelings about that.
There is no doubt, that the russian women and men, who fought with heroism to overcome the nazi empire, where great heroes. Not only in Russia but in the whole world.
On the other hand I find it quite strange to find here in FREE REPUBLIC "heroic" propaganda pictures from Lenin and Stalin. It is true, that the Red Army made by far the biggest contribution of all nations to overthrow Hitler, but it is also true that Stalin was:
1. At first a pragmatic ally to Hitler in splitting and raping Poland and other countries in eastern Europe. Killing thousands of innocents (Katyn i.e.) etc. etc. etc.
2. A beast that held many innocent nations (Poland, Czechia etc.) in its grip as his price after the war.
3. A mass murderer who killed millions of innocent Russians, Ukrainians, Germans, Poles and people from many other nations for his low base motives. Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il, Pol Pot or Jack the Ripper are just harmless milksops compared to Stalin.
Stalin is for sure nobody any real Freeper ever wants to honor. We should all be happy that his foul stinking body is rotting in his grave at the Kremlin wall.
President Bush just found the right words about Stalins evil empire yesterday, when he was talking to the people of the Baltic nations, who are free now from Sowjet oppression.
Please do not use Stalins propaganda photos anymore. They spoil the remembrance of the real Russian heroes who fought in their time for the good thing.