Probably a good time to reengage with Russia instead of shutting them out, this is a bad sign of things to come…
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow plans to erect a new statue of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, returning his once-ubiquitous image to its streets after an absence of four decades, a top city official said Wednesday.
Since President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) was elected in 2000, a number of Soviet symbols – including the national anthem and an army flag – have been restored to use, reflecting widespread nostalgia for Russia’s communist years.
But rehabilitation of Stalin, who was denounced after his death in 1953 by the Soviet leadership for encouraging a cult of personality and killing millions of real and imagined opponents, has previously been out of bounds. Statues of Stalin were removed from Moscow’s public spaces in the 1960s.
“A monument will be erected to those who took part in (leading the war against Adolf Hitler), including Stalin,” Oleg Tolkachev, Moscow’s senator in the upper house of parliament, told Ekho Moskvy radio.
Interfax news agency reported earlier that a Stalin monument would also be built in the Belgorod region near the Ukrainian border to mark the Soviet victory against Nazi Germany 60 years ago – seen as the country’s greatest military triumph.
In another sign of Stalin’s growing appeal, state television channels have shown a number of prime-time television shows in recent months depicting him in a positive light.
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Some leaders deserve tributes. Stalin is one of them. Each man has a good and bad side. Stalin killed alot of people, but he did develop the economy (communist style of course) and establish a solid education system better by far than anything the US has. He was a strong leader who helped build a country to be a super-power. For Russians that may be something to make him a hero.
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^ are you out of your tree? A man can develop the cure for religious fundamentalism, but if he kills 20000000 of his own people, no tribute is warranted.
This is nothing more than misplaced nostalgia. Kind of like the pipe dreams of khilafat etal. people who look at the past a model for the future are bound to fail
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Big difference between Hitler and Stalin. Hitler wanted to destory entire races and civilizations. Stalin did not have such an ideology. He wished to see Russia become a dominant world power and extend its influence.
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establish a solid education system better by far than anything the US has
Can you explain a little on this claim?
I don't think comparison to the US should be any country’s criteria for excellence for many reasons; US being too big to be used as a standard for prep-through-K12 education and many EU countries consider their basic educational system the best in the world. In any case, I am just interested to know the merits of the USSR's educational system.
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Roosi people should worry about Roti Salan and not Stalin. Their idea of upping the treasury is to jail the business people and steal their money. Russia sucks no matter how you look at it. Ever since Peter the Great, things have only gone downhill for them. Here’s a detailed summary of their accomplishments for the past 90 years:
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A fair point Thap, but you won't see any U.S. governmentally funded statue honoring Custer going up in today’s' world, the monument in Monroe was dedicated in 1910 (Thank you google) it was a different world back then. Should it be taken down? One may argue that it is a historically protected piece of work and good or bad it should stay, none-the-less that's a different discussion. In any case the comparison of a statue honoring Custer put up in 1910 to one honoring Stalin being erected today is not a fair one.
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The systematic murder, deliberate starvation and forced internment of his people while developing an economy and political structure that would lead to the the disintegration of his country deserves a tribute because his evil actions made his country a temporary super-power? This wins the award for your most ridiculous post yet. And that’s no small task. Your sanctimonuous condemnations of the US for their comparatively angelic-like polcies mean even less now then they used to. Again, no small task. This was a BM from CM.
