Pravda praises Stalin & Lenin

Gonz

Gonz

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Donald Rumsfeld today proclaimed that Saddam Hussein will join others in the annals of the history books as a failed dictator, naming ?Hitler, Stalin, Lenin and Ceausescu.

For Donald Rumsfeld-s information, Vladimir Ulyanov came to power on a message of ?bread and peace¦, setting in motion a process which was to bring a Medieval state to the front line of development and give to an oppressed, illiterate population with a near to zero chance of social mobility every opportunity for a good education, a guaranteed job, house, retirement pension, food, vodka, health care and cultural and sports opportunities second to none.

Vladimir Ulyanov set in motion a process which sees the Russian people today as well or better prepared than their peers abroad to perform any job anywhere on earth.

Vladimir Ulyanov set in motion the mechanism to create the Soviet Union, which heroically defeated the fascist forces of Hitler, who Rumsfeld mentions in the same breath as Lenin, which lost 20,000,000 of its souls and whose armed forces, under Stalin, who Rumsfeld also mentions in the same breath, killed 90% of all German soldiers in the war.

That everything was not perfect in Vladimir Ulyanov-s Russia is patently clear. However, to compare him to Hitler is wholly inappropriate and demonstrates a degree of arrogance and ignorance shocking in a person at the political level which Rumsfeld has somehow attained.

At least Vladimir Ulyanov did not flout international law and launch a murderous campaign against a sovereign nation, massacring civilians, leaving women and children without limbs. Maybe Rumsfeld forgot to add Bush to the list. For Rumsfeld-s information, Lenin was Vladimir Ulyanov-s pseudonym.

If Rumsfeld compares Lenin to Hitler, maybe we should compare Bush to Genghis Khan and Rumsfeld himself to Jabba the Hutt.

Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY
PRAVDA.Ru
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in teeny, tiny, itsy bitsy print, couldn't they at least include the names of some 20,000,000 dead citizens?
 
Just goes to prove that politicians are as ignorant as everybody else when it comes to someone else's history... as if we didn't know. :rolleyes:
 
Failed dictator? They are immortal now in our history books for the next 2000 years to come. The greatest of kings and poets also die in the end and will be immortal and on the books for the next 2000 years. Its all just varying degrees of the good/evil tug of war. Nothing lasts forever regardless of how entrenched in the psyche or sociology. 4000 years of Egyptian culture is now just a sideshow curiosity for gawking tourists cueing past glass cases. Alexander and the Mongols set the world ablaze in their own regard... but they amounted only to dust 100 years after they were gone. Its all fleeting once it gets beyond living memory.
 
They are immortal for their carnage & failings-albeit, on a huge scale. The only experiment on grander scale is our failings of with the Great Society of FDR. Communism took 45 years to be proved futile...
 
I don't have a problem lumping Stalin in with Hitler in the context of the statement considering that the Stalinist 30s made the holocaust seem like a barn dance.
 
The USSR was around for more like 75 years, and it didn't take very long for it to be proved a failure. It just took a long time for people to admit that it was a failure... apparently Pravda still hasn't caught up.
 
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