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Stalin's purge 1937 remembered in Russia
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| Jul. 25, 2007
| BAGILA BUKHARBAYEVA
Posted on 07/25/2007 12:08:59 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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Russian President Vladimir Putin defends the evil KGB's role in the mass murder of millions of his fellow Russians. Putin misses the Soviet Union, because he was not one of the oppressed, but one of the oppressors.
To: Tailgunner Joe
“President Vladimir Putin said last month that although the 1937 purge was one of the most notorious episodes of the Stalin era, no one should try to make Russia feel guilty about it because “in other countries even worse things happened.””
I didn’t know Pooty Pute was a history teacher.
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posted on
07/25/2007 12:12:58 PM PDT
by
caver
(Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
To: Tailgunner Joe
Maybe Putin should just take the Kerry approach: It didn’t happen.
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posted on
07/25/2007 12:13:41 PM PDT
by
rhombus
To: Tailgunner Joe
They weren’t his fellow Russians any more than the rest of the barnyard animals had anything in common with the “superior” pigs in Animal Farm.
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posted on
07/25/2007 12:15:15 PM PDT
by
weegee
(NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
To: caver
He teaches the same history he learned in the KGB.
Putin: Vietnam worse than Stalin purges - "We have not used nuclear weapons against a civilian population, ...We have not sprayed thousands of kilometers with chemicals, dropped on a small country seven times more bombs than in all the Great Patriotic War."
To: Tailgunner Joe
How could anyone say anything bad about Uncle Joe? Our greatest president ever said thought he was a good man, so that’s good enough for me!
/sarc
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posted on
07/25/2007 12:18:11 PM PDT
by
Future Snake Eater
(Mosul, Baghdad, Karbala, Najaf, Sadr City...'round and 'round we go...)
To: Future Snake Eater
How could anyone say anything bad about Uncle Joe? Our greatest president ever said thought he was a good man, so thats good enough for me! "At least he never put female panties on a person's head like we did at Abu Gharib."
Quotation from an unknown freeper.
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posted on
07/25/2007 12:23:05 PM PDT
by
Stepan12
( "We are all girlymen now." Conservative reaction to Ann Coulter's anti PC joke)
To: Tailgunner Joe
President Vladimir Putin said last month that although the 1937 purge was one of the most notorious episodes of the Stalin era, no one should try to make Russia feel guilty about it because in other countries even worse things happened".He's right. As well as the USSR, there were democides in Cuba, greater Nazi Germany, Kampuchea/Cambodia, newly-conquered South Vietnam and of course China. What was the common thread between all these countries? Answer: Socialism. There were democides by the Turks as well, but Islam is a piker compared with the real killer of the 20th Century.
To: Tailgunner Joe
"millions were labeled "enemies of the state" and executed without trial or sent to labor camps."Hey it was for the common good!
To: Tailgunner Joe
Another thing you would never read about in the New York Times.
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posted on
07/25/2007 12:28:02 PM PDT
by
pnh102
To: rawcatslyentist
"executed without trial or sent to labor camps." They say it like it's a bad thing!
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posted on
07/25/2007 12:32:42 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Progressives like to keep doing the things that didn't work in the past.)
To: Tailgunner Joe
Hitler admired Stalin’s mass murder of communists, saying, “Stalin has killed more communists than I ever could.”
BTW, Stalin wasn’t Russian, he was Georgian.
To: Tailgunner Joe
‘trying to soften public perception of Stalin’s rule’
Talk about putting lipstick on a pig!
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posted on
07/25/2007 12:45:57 PM PDT
by
Leg Olam
To: Tailgunner Joe
"We have not used nuclear weapons against a civilian population, ...We have not sprayed thousands of kilometers with chemicals, dropped on a small country seven times more bombs than in all the Great Patriotic War." So I guess Stalin was at war with his own people.
Basically that is what Putin is saying when he compares acts the US committed while at war against a hostile foe to Stalins atrocities against his own people.
Stalin must have been at war with the Soviet State of the Ukraine when he forcibly removed the grain harvest of the Ukraine which caused the slow painful mass starvation of uncounted millions of Ukrainians.
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posted on
07/25/2007 12:58:50 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(Patriotism is the natural consequence of having a free mind in a free society.)
To: Lee Heggy123
So Putin suggests that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is somehow on the same level as the purges and mass murders of the Stalin era?
Unbelievable. Putin wants to have a pissing contest among countries regarding who committed worse atrocities????
To: Pontiac
"We have not used nuclear weapons against a civilian population, ...We have not sprayed thousands of kilometers with chemicals, dropped on a small country seven times more bombs than in all the Great Patriotic War." But they sure as hell raped a lot of German Frauleins on their march to Berlin.
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07/25/2007 1:01:48 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: Tailgunner Joe
They remember in Russia, but it’s down the memory hole on U.S. campuses.
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posted on
07/25/2007 1:11:06 PM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
To: Tailgunner Joe
suggested the United States' use of atomic weapons against Japan at the end of World War II was worseIf Stalin got the bomb first Germany would have been glass.
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posted on
07/25/2007 1:14:33 PM PDT
by
AU72
To: Tailgunner Joe
Putin is a chekist, not a democrat.
To: Tailgunner Joe
Putin: Vietnam worse than Stalin purges - "We have not used nuclear weapons against a civilian population, ...We have not sprayed thousands of kilometers with chemicals, dropped on a small country seven times more bombs than in all the Great Patriotic War."
Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, razed to the ground - 150.000 dead - 300.000 refugees.
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posted on
07/25/2007 1:18:59 PM PDT
by
Bommer
(Global Warming: The only warming phenomena that occurs in the Summer and ends in the Winter!)
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