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“Bloodthirsty cannibal”: Stalin’s grandson locks horns with newspaper in court
Published: 09 October, 2009, 00:17
Edited: 03 January, 2010, 19:53
Moscow’s Basmanny court has begun hearing a ten million rouble libel lawsuit filed by Stalin’s grandson, Evgeny Dzhugashvili, against Novaya Gazeta newspaper that called his grandfather “a bloodthirsty cannibal.”
Stalin enslaved even more uncountable millions of people than he murdered. I think it's unfair to characterise him by only his second strongest suite. He was a pitiless, unfeeling enslaver and tormentor of people. A monster who somehow stumbled into human form.
Are we really trying to find a "good" side to Stalin? Every imaginable mismanagement, and atrocity occurred under his administration. Weather he personally ordered a given action or simply failed to punish it, he's still responsible. Not to mention the accusations of mistrials, show trials, abductions, and arbitrary destruction of careers. Given that both Hitler and Mao Zedong both admired and adopted some of Stalin's methods, I feel it was his regime that contributed most to the failure of the Soviet experiment, and Communism as a whole. Yes, of course there were accomplishments during that time as well. But were they because of Stalin and his agents, or in spite of them? If Lenin or Trotsky were in control, would things not have gone somewhat smother? Somewhat more efficiently? At least would Western Propagandists not have had a harder time with a milder, more flexible approach to the ideology?
Not Surprised that with the triumph of counter- revolution , will be ushered in Russia an epoch of villification against heroes of the great October socialist revolution - Stalin, Dzedjinski, Panfilov etc . Please yourselves how you may, in your Hatred of the formost communists, heap what insults as you wish on them in unison with the real enemies of mankind-imperialism- As the best of the human Species, communists the world over remain unshaken in the view that comrade Stalin had not erred in the execution of his sacred duties to the Working class of the USSR or the World in General. The current attacks are the treacherous continuation of the ideological and political class struggle that cannot be wished away in the unward match of human history. I do hope RT will however, see fit to post my opposing position to M6 , the most rabid exponent of the ideas of the exploiting class . Many thanks from Ibarruri.
It's true that Stalin was not a “bloodthirsty cannibal.” He was "simply" a “bloodthirsty murderer.”