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Poll: Nearly Half of Russians Believe Stalin’s Terror Was Justified
Breitbart.com ^
| 04/01/2015
| Mary Chastain
Posted on 04/01/2015 1:40:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
According to a poll by the Levada Center, the enormous economic progress under Soviet Union dictator Josef Stalin justified all the sacrifices made by Russians, including the genocide of his own people.
The independent center polled the same question two years ago, but only 25 percent agreed. The latest poll is up to 45 percent.
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
One half of Russia deserve everything they get.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
04/01/2015 1:42:40 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
04/01/2015 1:42:51 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Holy buckets!! They’re as stupid and immoral as Americans.
To: johniegrad
Looks like Vlad Putin’s rehabilitation of Stalin is working.
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posted on
04/01/2015 1:43:55 PM PDT
by
C19fan
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The way I see it, the Russians have a peculiar type of cultural stupidity. Its like they think its their destiny to be ruled by serial tyrants. Who’s to argue with Russian people that know Russians, maybe he was justified.
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posted on
04/01/2015 1:44:49 PM PDT
by
X-spurt
(CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Well, they wouldn’t be Russians if they weren’t actually the Russians, they are who they are, because of who and what they are as a people.
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posted on
04/01/2015 1:46:24 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Liberals in general think that, in order to achieve the leftist communist utopia, there “will be some tough times” in the interim until the perfection is achieved.
But that perfection is SO worth the struggle to get there, that anything can be justified when weighed against it.
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posted on
04/01/2015 1:47:36 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: SeekAndFind
To: Talisker
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posted on
04/01/2015 1:50:14 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I’ve heard similar things about Mao from Chinese friends. It’s this mentality that explains why humanity has allowed so many sociopaths to rise to power. I personally believe it’s the same mentality that leads to the almost literal worship of celebrities - including those whose lives are essentially a disaster.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Too bad there is no way to poll the the millions that he murdered.
Idiots
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posted on
04/01/2015 1:52:49 PM PDT
by
RetSignman
(Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“I mean, you take your average Russkie, we all know how much guts he’s got. Hell, lookit all them Nazis killed off and they still wouldn’t quit.”
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posted on
04/01/2015 1:55:23 PM PDT
by
henkster
(Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
It's people thinking 1) "We were a superpower" and 2) "We won WWII."
It's not so much a rational, well-considered approval of what Stalin did, it's an angry reaction to Russia's loss of the power it once had.
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posted on
04/01/2015 1:57:20 PM PDT
by
x
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Most Cubans believe that Che’s murders were justified.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
This poll result indicates that those who voted do not know what life was like in the 20’s and 30’s in Russia. Or, they have not been told about or read “The Gulag Archipelago” by Alekzandr Solzhenitsyn. I have read all three volumes and each is filled with what life was like for those who even hinted at being dissenters. A.S. was given 8 years for writing to a fellow veteran that he did not think that Stalin's next “5 year plan” would succeed. I guess the “Black Marias”, the transports that whisked prisoners away in the dead of night, are no longer in use. Solzhenitsyn won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. (he deserved the prize, unlike Gore and p_resident Obadman.)
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posted on
04/01/2015 2:02:05 PM PDT
by
BatGuano
(You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
My co-worker in Seattle is a native Russian. She’s been here for over a decade.
Her political totalitarianism runs deep.
Russians seem to innately desire a maniacal boot crushing their head.
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posted on
04/01/2015 2:02:32 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Support Principle: http://www.tedcruz.org)
To: henkster
Ahh, Gen. Buck Turgidson’s line. My favorite movie.
(see tag line below)
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posted on
04/01/2015 2:07:28 PM PDT
by
BatGuano
(You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Poll: Nearly Half of Russians Believe Stalins Terror Was Justified The other half were killed in "Uncle Joe's" purges.
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posted on
04/01/2015 2:09:28 PM PDT
by
glennaro
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