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Published: 18 January, 2010, 13:31
Edited: 18 January, 2010, 22:50


The grandson of Joseph Stalin wants a criminal case to be opened against Ukrainian investigators of the 1930s mass famine. Last week a Ukrainian court put the blame for the famine on Stalin and several other officials.

 
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Billde January 18, 2010, 14:33 quote
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If the famine was widespread (highly probable) and involved several regions, then, there is little ground for the courts decision. It presumes a genocide out of its nationalistic desires to separate themselves from Russian history. It is easy to make "the other guy" - the bad guy, if you want to paint yourself as the good guy. As far as Stalin's grandson, how can he say anything about legality and his father in the same breath is beyond me. The enlightened , and it was, constitution drawn up under Stalin's reign in the mid-1930's was violated from the onset

David January 18, 2010, 18:56 quote
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The evil of both Hitler and Stalin are incomprehensible. The absurdity of Stalin's grandson's argument is just as difficult to understand.

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