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FOX: Russia determined to cover up Stalin’s crimes
NewsReal Blog ^ | August 3, 2009 | Kathy Shaidle

Posted on 08/03/2009 1:11:52 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative

On Friday, Fox News host Sean Hannity presented a brief report about Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s plans to criminalize historical “revisionism.”

Specifically, Medvedev wants to make “questioning the Soviet victory in World War II” a criminal offense; he also appointed a commission to work towards “counteracting attempts to falsify history that are to the detriment of the interests of Russia.”

In the Newsweek piece cited by Hannity, Stalin’s Children author Owen Matthews explains:

Russia’s schoolchildren are being indoctrinated with the greatness of Stalin and stories of how the Red Army was welcomed as liberators by the peoples of Eastern Europe.

Both Putin and Medvedev seek to create a new, great Russia, and to that end, they believe it needs a great history, unsullied with mass murder and secret alliances with Hitler.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Philosophy; Russia
KEYWORDS: coldwar2; communists; coverup; kgb; putin; russia; sovietunion; stalinism; ussr; wwii
Why is this not surprising?
1 posted on 08/03/2009 1:11:52 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
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To: HorowitzianConservative

The mass murders presided over by the likes of Uncle Joe and Chairman Mao made Hitler and his genocidal crew look like rank amateurs.

THAT is the historical truth.

WHY do we seldom if ever hear condemnations of Communist butchery from the liberals and leftists?

They’re all honor bound to defend their ideological brethren, that’s why.


2 posted on 08/03/2009 1:16:10 PM PDT by mkjessup (Excuse me Mr. 0bama? No documentation = No eligibility, ok? Now GTF out of OUR White House, got it?)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

PS, Welcome to FR!


3 posted on 08/03/2009 1:17:16 PM PDT by mkjessup (Excuse me Mr. 0bama? No documentation = No eligibility, ok? Now GTF out of OUR White House, got it?)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

No surprise here. Since the so-called down fall of Russian communism, I’ve said I would believe it only when the party nomenklatura, chekisti, and other party criminals were tried in public followed by public televised executions.

Then I might believe that it had collapsed in Russia.

But there has not been a SINGLE trial of any of these butchers and murderers.


4 posted on 08/03/2009 1:18:48 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: mkjessup

Thanks MK. Back in my leftist days I would have never expected that I would end up someday contributing stuff to FR. Now that I’m here I think I’m starting to enjoy it, though. :-)


5 posted on 08/03/2009 1:30:10 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Communism as operated by Lenin et al, is just another name for Russian imperialism, with a twist so the suckers in the West would have a plausible excuse to support it. The Chinese version, is Mao (and successors) as the emperor, without the trappings of world-wide proletarian revolution. This has evolved into a dictatorship of the fascist kind in both countries. Private property, without the true respect that such property deserves, xenophobia, and authoritarianism.


6 posted on 08/03/2009 1:31:34 PM PDT by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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To: RKV

Real Marxist Communism in Russia died when the expected worldwide revolution did not follow quickly on the heels of the October Revolution. Soon in 1924, Stalin publicized his “Socialism in One Country” idea and red orthodoxy took more and more of a backseat to nationalism. A subset of Stalin’s butchery was dedicated to eliminating the true believers of Communism.


7 posted on 08/03/2009 1:45:38 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: HorowitzianConservative
>Russia determined to cover up Stalin’s crimes

Do we tell the world
about all the rabbits killed
during Carter's years?

8 posted on 08/03/2009 1:50:41 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: HorowitzianConservative
unsullied with... secret alliances with Hitler.

What, they're going to non-person foreign minister Molotov now?

9 posted on 08/03/2009 1:55:01 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Hell the NEA has already done it for them.


10 posted on 08/03/2009 1:56:23 PM PDT by Radl (sai)
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To: HorowitzianConservative; Ernest_at_the_Beach; FARS; devolve

Now comes the Doper Islamo Commie Kenyan (DICK) to slash the U.S. missile defense, the F-22, to accommodate Putin the Stalinophile assassin.

The New York Times' Walter Duranty has his parallels in today's Blame-America-First Brigade.

The "coup" in Honduras preventing the spread of Castro-Chavez Communism--and where is ali Hussein on this?

Praising China, responsible for its own tens of millions of "inconvenient" reactionaries.

Bill Ayers called for twenty-five million to be eliminated for the crime of resisting the revolution.

Inflation will increase that figure.

Omelette. Eggs. Into the boxcars, Morons.

Yet Tsar of Cook County less popular with each fresh steaming outrage.

No medical care for YOU!


11 posted on 08/03/2009 2:04:11 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

i.e. fascism calling itself socialism/communism. Trotsky had one thing right.


12 posted on 08/03/2009 2:05:41 PM PDT by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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To: HorowitzianConservative
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4471144.ece

August 7, 2008
Trappings of state accompany funeral of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was borne to his grave yesterday by an honour guard of Russian soldiers as the words of the hymn Eternal Memory echoed around the Donskoi monastery in Moscow. With President Medvedev following the Nobel laureate’s open coffin, the funeral of the dissident writer combined the rich traditions of his beloved Orthodox Church with the trappings of a formal state farewell.

...

Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister, former President and KGB spy, did not attend the funeral. After paying his respects at Tuesday’s wake, however, he ordered the Russian Education Minister to ensure that Solzhenitsyn’s books were taught prominently in schools and universities.


Hypocritical bass t&*ds, both of them.
13 posted on 08/03/2009 2:56:57 PM PDT by Cheburashka (Stephen Decatur: you want barrels of gunpowder as tribute, you must expect cannonballs with it.)
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To: HorowitzianConservative
Why is our WWII ally being criticized?
14 posted on 08/03/2009 3:58:06 PM PDT by tired1 (When the Devil eats you there's only one way out.)
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To: tired1

For the Thirty Million People he murdered before WW2, read some history.


15 posted on 08/03/2009 4:07:55 PM PDT by Little Bill (Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)
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To: Little Bill

You mean FDR had us side with a mass murderer?


16 posted on 08/03/2009 4:22:24 PM PDT by tired1 (When the Devil eats you there's only one way out.)
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To: tired1

Absolutely, FDR a Fascist smoking a Camel, read history.


17 posted on 08/03/2009 4:32:06 PM PDT by Little Bill (Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

This doesn’t surprise me.

Putin was, is, and will always be, a hardcore communist KGB agent who idolizes Brezhnev, Andropov and Stalin.


18 posted on 08/03/2009 6:29:42 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: Little Bill

Wow, you should have really gone up to some nice round figure of 100 million or something if you’re going to make stuff up.


19 posted on 08/04/2009 12:49:50 AM PDT by RolandOfGilead
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To: RolandOfGilead
I have been reading about this since I was about fourteen, Start with the Gulag Archipelago, Harvest of Sorrow, One day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

You might read the Books by Dr. Richard Pipes of Harvard, I have them all. You might want to read about the faked Soviet census of the Thirties, you might want to do some research before you express an opinion, I have.

I won't include the testimonies of my Polish and Lithuanian in Laws who went through the Soviet Conquest and enslavement.

20 posted on 08/04/2009 10:13:31 AM PDT by Little Bill (Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)
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