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12th April 2012, 15:36 #1
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Josef Stalin
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr...ebook-20120406
Do Russians have some warped culture where they're willing to embrace a man as "great" who killed millions under his rule?
Or perhaps more generally, are there reasons why Stalin is not viewed as a total monster as Hitler is, besides the lack of Soviet records and the fact that the Soviets didn't start WW2?
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12th April 2012, 15:42 #2
I thought Poland started World War 2 in 1920?
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12th April 2012, 15:43 #3
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I can't even begin to describe how warped the culture is, but then perhaps I shouldn't, as I'm Estonian and very biased.
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12th April 2012, 15:47 #4
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12th April 2012, 16:17 #5
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Cue Eki and his Bush comments...
“If everything's under control, you're going too slow.” Mario Andretti
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12th April 2012, 16:39 #6
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Originally Posted by schmenke
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12th April 2012, 17:07 #7
It does make you wonder how bad things must be for some people in Russia today that they look back at Stalin's regime as a better time. There's usually a nostalgia for one's youth, though; no matter how bad things actually were at least you could still move all your joints.
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13th April 2012, 08:25 #8
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There are two underlying cultural factors for Stalin's cult in Russia (and Belarus, to some extent). One is a pretty low value attached to the human life. Another is Russia's permanent want of "greatness". On the balance it means that if somebody expanded the borders of the country, he is regarded as a great, no matter how many human lives he screwed in the process.
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13th April 2012, 12:36 #9
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Originally Posted by theugsquirrelI could really use a fish right now
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13th April 2012, 14:23 #10
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