The canal was constructed by forced labour of gulag inmates. During its construction by a total of 126,000 workers, about 12,000 died, according to the official records,[1] while historian Anne Applebaum's estimate is 25,000 deaths.
One half of Russia deserve everything they get.
liberals ...
Holy buckets!! They’re as stupid and immoral as Americans.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Too bad there is no way to poll the the millions that he murdered.
Idiots
“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.”
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.
Most Cubans believe that Che’s murders were justified.
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.
The other half were killed in "Uncle Joe's" purges.
Perhaps the north asian caucasoids we call russians have lived under the boot of repression and tyranny for so many countless centuries that it feels perfectly normal. Those who felt otherwise froze to death in Siberia or were shot in the basement of lubyanka prison.
Same attitude most Democrats have concerning Harry Reid.
As a former Soviet, I can say that this is mainly due to WWII. Stalin has almost godlike status and gets a free pass because they did not lose the War. Many also credit him for the soviet industrial revolution. The saying is “he was a really good piece of sh**”. I knew people who survived his starvation policies and said this.
Russians don’t like rules or authority or dictators. Except for publicly challenging the party, there are very few rules enforced for the average person.
I know how they feel. Half of our country votes democrat, which is the same.
The canal was constructed by forced labour of gulag inmates. During its construction by a total of 126,000 workers, about 12,000 died, according to the official records,[1] while historian Anne Applebaum's estimate is 25,000 deaths.