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Stalin the murderous dictator? Let's Rewrite History!
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by Barry Artiste | September 4, 2009 at 11:06 pm
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Stalin, whose penchant for Bloodlust and Death, made Hitler look like a Nancy Boy , with over 20 million of its own citizens dead by his paranoia has had Russian schoolbooks on history rewritten to show he was a baby kissing great leader. Funny though, I guess Moscow forget Russians have internet and were not born yesteryear, though Moscow politicans wish they were.
Russian textbooks rewrite country’s traumatic past
Peter Goodspeed, National Post Published: Friday, September 04, 2009
On Sept. 1, while the international media focused on commemorations marking the 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War in Poland, Russian children returned to their classrooms to begin a new school year.
They found the world transformed. New state-approved textbooks have recast Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin into "one of the most successful leaders of the U.S.S.R."
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at 07:04 on September 5th, 2009
In any country's history, in fact in any person's history there is tragedy. This is all a part of life. There is always good that comes out the bad. Putin is not denying the crimes committed but he is trying to balance the truth with the good that came out of it, like in anything else.
Has Canada or the USA not had its own holocaust or crimes? Just ask the native Indians. But history does not dwell on horrible deaths in these countries.
All countries have had their accomplishments also and should have the right to instill patriotic pride in them.
Source: nationalpost.com
Source: nationalpost.com
at 07:43 on September 5th, 2009
Thanks Sara for the comments
Yeah, that Stalin was a great guy, a regular Salt (Mine) of the Earth!
at 07:57 on September 5th, 2009
Don't you talk about Uncle Joe that way! He never promised a rose garden! He was just misunderstood by the evil atomic bomb dropping west! Indeed, he only had the best interests of his fellow countrymen at heart and all those reports of mass murder on his part were purely a product of capitalist propaganda. Everyone knows that the greatest instances of genocide were perpetrated by the U.S. against the native American and black population and the peace loving Japanese and German peoples . . . .
at 14:29 on September 16th, 2009
Victory in Europe came at the cost of perhaps 25 million Russian dead. With or without the U.S., the USSR would have defeated the Nazis (tho you could argue that absent the British/American effort, the Russians may have settled for less than the total defeat of Germany).
That said, Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister, saying that, "Freedom came from the east,..." is disingenuous at best. History shows that enslavement to totalitarian soviet regimes came from the east. Better than enslavement to the nazi's? Ask a Jewish person.