&host=www.rt.com&uri=/news/stalin-crimes-public-discussion/&via=1.1 205.128.88.19:80 (Footprint 4.8/FPMCP)&ua=CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html))
The public discussion about Stalin shows how free we are - observer
Published: 21 December, 2009, 14:42
Edited: 22 April, 2010, 23:32
TAGS: Anniversary, Crime, Russia, Human rights, Stalin, History
Dmitry Babich from Russia Profile magazine believes that Russia now has real freedom, including the freedom to say whatever people really think about Stalin.
Monday, December 21st marks 130 years since the birth of Joseph Stalin, one of the most polarizing figures in Russian world history.
“I think the situation now is closer to normal than it was in the late ’80s when he was denounced by the state media, because now people have real freedom," Babich said. "Those who like Stalin can say what they think. Those, who dislike him can say what they think. And it’s natural that after 30 years of, I would say, forced negativism towards him, we have polarity of views.”
21.12.2009, 14:00
Moscow turns into tinseltownA 28-meter-high New Year fir tree has been erected in the center of Moscow and soon will be decorated and ready for the jolly festivities. |
21.12.2009, 19:24
14 comments
Stalin: feared and reveredToday marks 130 years since the birth of Joseph Stalin, one of the most controversial figures of the 20th Century. |
Stalin was a despot and mass murderer.Look at all the innocent peasants he stole land from and sent out to siberia as dissidents because they would not conform to his totalitarianism or whatever you call it.He did not save Russia from Hitler..THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE DID! Hitler was a fasist along with mussolini and their mob...and lets not forget the companies and wealthy backers and lobbyists who supported and funded their causes while making a healthy profit supplying arms and oil etc.. Forget about this madman ...putin has done more in ten years than this man could do in ten lifetimes Sorry to offend but the truth sometimes does
Stalin is my idol. Mao comes in a close second. I guess it's a lot easier to talk about people when they are not there to defend themselves and they take on all sorts of faces that they never wore. Only those of those times would know, slightly tainted with a golden hue of yesterday perhaps. Dictators need to hurry up and become immortal so that they can contain more and don't get soft and weak in old age. The meek have inherited the Earth . Some are more perfect that others - and with good reason.
How many millions died from starvation in the imperial-capitalist world during the Great Depression? How many more earned precarious livings as soldiers in imperial armies which were enlarged to make work for the unemployed? Many of Stalin's decisions during the 1930s must be seen as reactions to the collapse of capitalism around the world. But he needed capitalist technology to industrialize, and arm, Russia. So he supplied cheap wheat and sold priceless paintings from Russian museums to western countries to get "hard currency", buy technology, and protect Russia. Russia is always surrounded by enemies - more so now than then.