Did you guys know there already is a Joseph Stalin, and he was some big-time murderer?
Posted on 10/08/2009 9:48:25 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Joseph Stalin's grandson in legal battle to defend tyrant's reputation
Tony Halpin in Moscow
In what must rank as one of Russia’s strangest legal cases, a court began a libel hearing yesterday in defence of the reputation of Joseph Stalin.
Yevgeni Dzhugashvili, Stalin’s grandson, is taking part in a demand for ten million roubles (£200,000) in damages from Novaya Gazeta, a liberal opposition newspaper, over an article that accused the Soviet tyrant of personally approving executions.
The case is being brought by Leonid Zhura, a devoted Stalinist, who insists the dictator never actually killed anybody — despite the deaths of millions in purges and slave labour camps under his rule.
Hearings opened yesterday at Basmanny Court in Moscow into his complaint that Anatoli Yablokov, an historian, had insulted Stalin’s memory.
Mr Yablokov wrote that the Soviet leader had signed orders to murder Soviet citizens, and that Stalin and the KGB were linked “by the gravest crimes, above all against their own people”. The newspaper reproduced documents from Soviet archives showing Stalin’s signature on lists of people for execution, some with handwritten notes insisting that all of the accused should be killed.
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Ping!
Don’t they have one of those public figure exceptions?
What’s to defend? History is clear: Stalin was a tyrant and a maniacle butcher of his own people. He loathed them and treated them like dirt. When he was displeased he murdered them by the millions or sent them off to labor camps to die. He is in Hell and the world is well rid of him. Sadly, some refuse to believe the facts of history or the truth regarding what he did to the Ukriane, Poland, etc...
Didn’t this start as satire?
Who were Stalin’s “own people”? What was his true ethnic background? Maybe he didn’t consider Ukrainians as “his” ? Just asking...
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Ping Acorn!
Well, Stalin did outlaw abortion in the USSR.
Just because Stalin was a mass murdering maniac is no reason to call him one; see, you hurt the widdle feewings of his grandson by doing so. Cry me a river.
Not because he cared about the unborn, he just needed warm bodies to feed his industrial machine and the grist mill of his armed forces... where they died by the millions!
Stalins “people” were all those under his care and leadership, everyone in the former Sovit Union. But like I said, he treated them all like dirt and killed them by the millions. The man was wickedness personified.
Yeah, but he meant well /sarc
Do the DUmmies defend, or even worship this guy?
How dare they ! Are they kidding ?
He was one of the most maniacal mass murdering worlds leaders in history !
He’s probably comfortably in the top ten despots of all time - and we shouldn’t just stand by as they try say he was not !
Yeah and I never ordered the killings of all those cows, I merely eat their flesh when ever possible.
He was upset that 0bama was being compared to “Uncle Joe”..
Soviet Socialists lost over a million second lieutenants fighting the National Socialists. Glad they were too much alike to be friends.
Did you guys know there already is a Joseph Stalin, and he was some big-time murderer?
You're also responsible for the deaths of quintillions of microorganisms which are also individually just as good as yourself. There's only one way to address that wrong.....here's the pistol.
Stalin was a Georgian.
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