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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on September 05, 2008, 01:33:01 PM
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Josef Stalin acted rationally in killing millions, claims Russian textbook
By Chris Irvine
Last Updated: 8:39AM BST 03 Sep 2008
Telegraph
The book, A History of Russia, 1900-1945, will be used as a teaching guide in Russian schools, 55 years after Stalin died.
It is designed for teachers to promote patriotism among the Russian young, and seems to follow an attempt backed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to re-evaluate Stalin's record in a more positive light.
Millions were shot, exiled to Siberia or died of starvation after their land and homes were taken to fulfil Stalin's vision of massive "factory farms" in the 1920s, while in the 1930s anyone who was a threat was executed or exiled to Gulag labour camps in Siberia.
Historians believe up to 20 million people died as a result of his actions, many times more than were killed under Hitler's Nazi regime in Germany.
Full Article (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/2672717/Josef-Stalin-acted-rationally-in-killing-millions-claims-Russian-textbook.html)
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Stalin may have thought that, but he is the personification of evil right there! I think Stalin killed 60 million. 20 million is too conservative of a number. Lavarentii Beria is evil. Thankfully he was executed on Christmas Day of 1953. A gift from God for humanity right there! I don’t know why Beria’s name is tossed around like Hitler. Frankly, I get sick hearing Hitler being tossed around all the time. It’s called Godwin’s Law. I mean seriously why Hitler. Why not Stalin or Pol Pot. I think Pol Pot is extremely evil and personifies evil of the worst kind. Joseph Stalin was Georgian, not Russian. That made him really bitter and self-hating. Stalin was also a sex pervert and a pedophile. You know who else admired Stalin, Saddam Hussein. He had a real sick obessession with Stalin and worshipped like he was God. Our soldiers were disturbed and appalled by it.
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20 million is indeed a bit conservative, many think that the famine resulting from collectivization (and the ensuing ruthless suppression of the farmers who dissented) by itself accounted for at least that many, not even counting the Terror of the 20s (admittedly as much Lenin as anyone there) or the purges of the 30s which easily carried off at least another 10 million. War losses (about 1/3 of which were military) amounted to something like 20 million, a lot of which is indirectly attributable to Stalin's ham-fisted mismanagement of both military and foreign affairs.
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So the DUmmies are now authoring text books?