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Many Russians No Longer Hold Stalin Liable for WWII Deaths
Moscow Times ^ | June 2018

Posted on 06/26/2018 8:14:14 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

The Kremlin has in recent years advanced a narrative that Russia must not be ashamed of its Soviet past. President Vladimir Putin has used his nearly two decades in power to talk up achievements during World War II as a rallying cry to unite the nation.

In recent years, there have been efforts in Russia to transform Stalin’s image from that of a bloody dictator to a ‘great personality.’

A poll by the independent Levada Center found only 9 percent of Russians blamed Stalin’s leadership for the war casualties, according to a survey published Wednesday.

That is a a rapidly dwindling fourfold decline from the 36 percent of respondents who believed in 1991.

(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: churchill; communism; fdr; granatroll; mactroll; nazism; putin; russia; stalin; ussr; worldwar2; wwii
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1 posted on 06/26/2018 8:14:14 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

You can’t polish a turd.


2 posted on 06/26/2018 8:15:39 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

WWII deaths?

Or the millions that perished in the 1930s?


3 posted on 06/26/2018 8:15:49 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Bloody dictator.


4 posted on 06/26/2018 8:15:57 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of ascenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

You mean somehow these people UNKILLED all the people he killed??? How does that work??


5 posted on 06/26/2018 8:17:25 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

Stalin was a great personality... if you happen to idolize bloody dictators.


6 posted on 06/26/2018 8:20:16 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I guess he meant well. So it’s OK.
(The only problem is: he didn’t mean well.)


7 posted on 06/26/2018 8:21:08 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Yes, I get it - racism is bad and mutual respect and inclusion is good. But value Truth too.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The Kulaks would beg to differ. If there are any left.


8 posted on 06/26/2018 8:21:29 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600><p>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I’ve always read that the Russians like to be dictated. They must be easy to fool.


9 posted on 06/26/2018 8:22:38 AM PDT by caver
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To: lgjhn23

You can’t polish a turd. .................................... Ahhhh, but you can rewrite history. Fighting a war is a military thing, forcing people to work to death in the frozen Archipelago mines under the guise of patriotism is BS. Randomly picking up people off the streets for false crimes isn’t part of the war. The Nazis invaded the USSR, it was a Patriotic War for the Russians, the appointment of the General Officers and the muscle behind them was Stalin. In that sense he was a great war leader. By putting millions of so called criminals of the state to death, he was a mass murderer like Hitler, who some consider the greatest politician Germany ever had. Lots of turds get polished, wait a hundred years, #44 will probably be the leader of the golden age of America.


10 posted on 06/26/2018 8:28:56 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Archepelico)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

It’s good.
The heavy loss was inevitable, unless Stalin ordered to take the preemptive action attacking Germany.

Should Americans hold FDR liable for the loss in Pearl Harbor?


11 posted on 06/26/2018 8:29:31 AM PDT by granada
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

How has Churchill fared in the ‘polls’ over the past few decades?

Wouldn’t it be ironic if Stalin was more popular in Russia today than Churchill is in Britain?


12 posted on 06/26/2018 8:31:26 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: 2banana
the millions that perished in the 1930s

Exactly. The Moscow Times is deflecting attention from the elephant in the room.

13 posted on 06/26/2018 8:32:23 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Russians pretty much feel the same way about Ivan the Terrible, who was Stalin’s idol.


14 posted on 06/26/2018 8:32:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

It’s great that Russians stop self-loathing and reject the smear propaganda.


15 posted on 06/26/2018 8:35:45 AM PDT by granada
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To: granada
Should Americans hold FDR liable for the loss in Pearl Harbor?

That will never happen...the American FDR myth like the JFK myth are quite safe.

16 posted on 06/26/2018 8:38:16 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mac_truck

No need to mention the images of Margaret Thatcher,Reagan and Andrew Jackson.


17 posted on 06/26/2018 8:41:30 AM PDT by granada
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To: granada

Thatcher is reviled in Britain, but I think Reagan is still held in high regard in the United States.

The outpouring of genuine affection when he passed away was palpable.


18 posted on 06/26/2018 8:52:28 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: granada

Stalin and his ALLY Adolf Hitler colluded to attack Poland.

Stalin DID NOT attack Hitler first.


19 posted on 06/26/2018 8:58:12 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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After Poland, Stalin occupied the Baltics and invaded Finland. He was every bit the aggressor that Hitler was.


20 posted on 06/26/2018 8:59:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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