Whitewashing the Travesty Which is Stalin

Arts & Letters Daily provides a link to a story in the Chicago Tribune titled Russia rewriting Josef Stalin’s legacy.

The main gist of the story concerns archives documenting Stalin’s atrocious and murderous crushing of Russia and the Russian people to further the evils of communism.  The archives had been gathered together by a Russian group called Memorial, in an attempt to ensure that Russians, and individuals throughout the world, can be fully cognizant of just how evil Stalin, and all he represents, was during his time in complete power.

These archives have been seized by the Russian police, allegedly to assist them in investigating some newspaper story which had been published by the newspaper Novy Peterburg.

But even more disturbing than the seizure of these archives is the following information which is contained within the article noting the seizure of the archives.

In Russian classrooms, history teachers are guided by a new, government-approved textbook, Alexander Filippov’s “Modern History of Russia: 1945-2006,” which hails Stalin as an efficient manager who had to resort to extreme measures to modernize the lumbering Soviet agrarian economy.

There were, writes Filippov, “rational reasons behind the use of violence in order to ensure maximum efficiency.”

A museum commemorating Stalin as a national hero opened in 2006 in the southern city of Volgograd. The following year, a 40-episode television drama broadcast on a state-controlled network whitewashed Stalin’s crimes and portrayed him as Russia’s savior.

Stalin, and all he represents, should be consigned to the cess pools of history.  As for the current Russian leaders attempting to rehabilitate the travesty which is Stalin, and those who curry their favor, such as Alexander Filippov who is creating fairy tales out of history, they should be driven forth from the halls of power like the swine they are.

One last note.  In Russia, if a Russian individual wrote what I have just written, they stand a very good chance of being harrassed/persecuted by the Russian state, and quite possibly being charged with treason.

UPDATE (08.30.2011): Repaired defunct links.

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