Steve Rosenberg: “Rewriting the past. This history book for Russian children says Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was ‘honest…he sincerely wanted his people to live better’ and doesn’t blame Stalin for the mass repressions and terror.” (4:04 min)

by GirasoleDE

7 comments

  2. Peter Griffin, “In soviet russia, ‘honesty’ is open to corrupt interpretation.”

  3. Well it could be seen as true for a very narrow definition of ‘his people’. Obviously anyone who disagreed with him, or got in his way, or encountered him on a bad day, was not included in that definition.

  4. To be completely honest, it was the Americans and the British who started all of this, when, on Nuremberg Trials, any criticism of the USSR was prohibited.

    Clearing the Soviet reputation for 1930s. Giving the USSR a monopoly on anti-nationalist and anti-imperial narratives.

    Today there are mainly consequences of those decisions.

  5. Everyone who got dealt by stalin pretty much deserved it. Obey and you will be fine, resist….and Papa stalin is going to make sure that’s your last resistance. Stalin was a great leader at putting down rebellions. Mass deportations keeps the aggressive populations in siberia away from everyone else.

    Sucks for you, great for the Nation.

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