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Showing Original Post only (View all)Putin wants to promote objective truth about WWII [View all]
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/putin-wants-to-promote-objective-truth-about-wwii/Russian President Vladimir Putin wants you to rethink what you know about Russia and the Soviet Union and understand the objective truth about their history.
On Thursday Kremlin announced a strategy advising Russias ministries and public organizations to make plans to spread objective historical and current information about the Russian Federation, including its role in defeating Nazism.
The plans involve several ministries and have global ambitions. Many of the goals revolve around World War II and combating what the Ministry of Foreign Affairs called attempts to revise history and heroize Nazism. The measures serve to hammer home a point that the Kremlin underscores at any opportunityMoscow fought Nazi Germany and won.
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I fully support that we talk more about the WWII-era Soviet Union.
Let's talk about how Stalin hunted down and executed blind ukrainian folk-singers in an attempt to eradicate ukrainian culture.
Let's talk about how Stalin and Hitler became besties and jointly invaded Poland.
Let's talk about how when Hitler betrayed Stalin and attacked the Soviet Union, Stalin was so hurt, he didn't leave his room for 3 days. That's how close they were.
Let's talk about how the Russians had committed such atrocities in Ukraine, that the Ukrainians greeted the Nazis as liberators. To repeat:
The Ukrainians welcomed the Nazis as liberators from the terror-regime of the Soviet Union.
Let's talk about the mass-rape of german women by the invading russian soldiers.
Let's talk about how Putin still refuses to return the german art looted in WWII because he considers them legitimate spoils of war.
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Modern Fascist hire Public Relations firms and sometimes retired foreign Generals.
gordianot
May 2017
#2
Let's talk about the Soviet Union starving the Ukraine as it stole Ukraine's harvests.
no_hypocrisy
May 2017
#4
Um, does it matter that we were allies with the "evil empire" when our Presidents
KingCharlemagne
May 2017
#12
Sigh. You better thank your lucky stars we were allies with the USSR. Without the sacrifices of
KingCharlemagne
May 2017
#24
Your false equivalence of Stalin with Hitler is demonstrable proof positive that you
KingCharlemagne
May 2017
#31
OF course I lionize Stalin (for reasons mentioned elsewhere). Speaking of 'rounding up' people, FDR
KingCharlemagne
May 2017
#64
And Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union slowed Stalin's reign of terror on his people.
Tommy_Carcetti
May 2017
#38
Hitler opened Auschwitz. Stalin (and the Red Army) closed it. Q.E.D. - nt
KingCharlemagne
May 2017
#66
Yes, reminds me a lot of the "Hitler was a bad guy but had some good ideas" trope we've all heard
BannonsLiver
May 2017
#79
I can't believe anyone in their right mind would laud the virtues of Stalin.
Tommy_Carcetti
May 2017
#81
How about instead we talk about how the USSR lost 26 million fighting Hitler
KingCharlemagne
May 2017
#6
What is B.S.? That the USSR lost 100 people for every 1 the U.S. lost? I know U.S. lives
KingCharlemagne
May 2017
#16
FFS. You need to take a few history classes or read some books. The USSR had
KingCharlemagne
May 2017
#23
Precise casualty counts are impossible. For one thing, the line between
KingCharlemagne
May 2017
#17
We provided the coats, the Soviet people provided the bodies. Or are you
KingCharlemagne
May 2017
#65
You are the one who has no shame, willing to accept with absolute equanimity that Soviets died at
KingCharlemagne
May 2017
#69
Say hi to Vlad. just so you could withhold your gratitude and engage in decadent what-aboutism*
Botany
May 2017
#71
LOL. When the Nazi scum invaded Ukraine, they had to restrain the Ukrainians for being
KingCharlemagne
May 2017
#14
Ukrainian "hero" Stepan Bandera gleefully aided Nazis in hunting down and killing Jews
Jake Stern
May 2017
#58
There comes a point where the monstrosity is so overwhelming distinctions are pointless
Tommy_Carcetti
May 2017
#32
You're spewing some hateful nonsense about your fellow DUers now. But as long
bettyellen
May 2017
#83
Were it not for Stalin, Zhukov and the Red Army, we would all be goose-stepping
KingCharlemagne
May 2017
#18
We did not need WW2 for that lesson. (See WW1.) IMO, the lesson of WW2 is that sometimes
KingCharlemagne
May 2017
#34