Shameful, twisting the minds of children into worshipping the baldheaded little Kalmyk b@stard who wreaked such hell upon Russia. Young Pioneers should be banned.
I was in Uzbekistan ten years ago & the young people there who were only kids in 1991 were nostalgic for the glories of the Soviet Union where food was abundant, everyone was employed & vacationed in Crimea every summer.
One young woman looked me in the eye & declared, “I want you to know one thing: I admire Josef Stalin!”
“Because he killed seventy million people?”, I shot back.
“You need a strong hand to rule a vast nation like the USSR!”, she replied unfazed, in perfect English.
“You need a strong hand to rule a vast nation like the USSR!”, she replied unfazed, in perfect English.
I was in a border town (Ezrum) in TU trading with Ivan back in '78. Somehow Stalin came up (yes, it was in 1978 and too much vodka). He said, "Stalin was great man. Saved country." I asked, what about all the Ukrainians he killed? "Oh, the Nazi did that."
What can you do?
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I wonder how many of her relatives were taken away in the dead of night for no reason under Stalin’s rule?
It’s real easy to admire the guy with 60+ years removed from his rule.