A brand new statue of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been unveiled at a Metro station in Moscow.
Meanwhile, an adviser to Russia’s President Putin recently argued that the Soviet Union in fact still exists, because of a procedural error in the process of dissolving it.
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Yes he does! But he does not have a Beria - yet....
Given how much effort was put in to distancing the country, even distancing the Soviet Union when it was still extant from Stalin and his horrific crimes, it's wild to see this.
Decades spent De-stalinizing the Soviet Union/Russia decades ago, only for lunatic nationalists to start rehabbing him in the 2020s because Putin thinks he's on the same level.
The US has statues everywhere of Confederate generals, even named military bases after them. Europe is the same, the hypocrisy.
Very few Hitler statues though.
Can you point me to a European example?
https://forward.com/news/462648/how-many-monuments-honor-fascists-nazis-and-murderers-of-jews-youll-be/
Cecil Rhodes in England: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-57175057.
Leopold II in Brussels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statues_of_Leopold_II_of_Belgium
Any number of old royalty, popes, colonial-era figures, crusaders etc.
Complete pieces of shit, no doubt, however compared to Stalin, oh boy. And then knowing those statues aren't in Kongo or South Africa where the insane crimes where mainly committed, they are in the colonizers home country. Stalin's millions of death largely where from and committed at home soil where now the ReSalinisation is happening.
Buh buh US11!!11
Average tankie response to any criticism
It's possible that he does not think he's on the same level, he just wants to turn more people towards these ultra-nationalist ideals.
If he can achieve that, IMO he will reap lots of benefits to forward his agendas; including internal unrest, dealing with internal opposition, support in wars with neigbours...
I believe Putin is very similar to Trump in a lot of ways, but a lot smarter.
AlertTangerine and McCarthyist propaganda posting. Name a more iconic duo. What's the weather like today in Langley?
No one ever thought Stalin was bad until McCarthy came along.
/s
i think those gulags were pretty shitty
usa prisons are worse. Plus, Stalin saved the world from German fascism, so...
i didn’t say anything about usa prisons. both can be bad.
Worse then forced heavy labor in Siberia?
After jointly invading Poland with the Nazis and fueling the Nazi war Machine, so...
"forced labor in Siberia" as opposed to forced labor in the US? read your own constitution dumbass
Not from the US.
Also note I said forced heavy labor in Siberia. Unless there are some secret Alaskan gulags I am not aware of it is not comparable. One only has to look at the death rates in the Gulags vs the death rate in American Prisons.
Got to love western tankies
tankie is a thought-terminating term. I'm sure it's helpful for you on occasion.
How many millions of people died in the US prisons?
How many millions of americans died due to a manufactured famine?
How well was Stalin (and the USSR) doing before the Lend Lease started?
What are you smoking, mate? I want some of it :)
Edit: oh, a '/s' has now appeared.
if by “no one” they mean “chronically online tankies,” they’re right!
Napoleon Complex.., it’s a bitch!
Putin likes the fact that ussr was a powerful country. He doesnt like that ussr was a communist country that hated religious extremist and russian ethno nationalism.
Putin only pretends to care about religion, I doubt he even really cares about ethnonationalism. These are pretexts he gives for Russians to delude themselves into thinking their country "stands for something" on the world stage (tradition and anti-liberalism). Power is the thing he only really truly cares about
Great! About time this much maligned Russian patriot is rehabilitated! Now the next step is to bring those confused ex-Soviet states back into the fold. And by the time that is done, I am sure we will be able to make a deal with the (by then) AfD chancelor of Germany to divide Poland, once and for all.
But, seriously, what time is this we are living in? When has the clock started running in reverse?
Report the bot. It's spreading the same videos with blatantly subjective propaganda across several communities.
That’s what most documentaries are. Documentaries that take a genuinely impartial look at their subject matter are the exception, not the rule.
We've found one russian bot, gents!
Someone needs to reintroduce these folks to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
A quote from him:
I have spent well-nigh fifty years working on the history of our Revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.
The Soviet Union? I thought you guys broke up?