WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT STALIN?

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aaliyah | 6 May 2008 - 4:09pm

Of Course, anyone of us should know who is Stalin. But there would someone who is deeply interested in his identity...

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maleEdIsBack | 6 May 2008 - 4:51pm

He was misunderstood.
Big animal lover.

malepietro della | 6 May 2008 - 4:59pm

Birobdjan??an inherent hatred of my people? Everything he did fell apart?? He wanted to rule! he ruled,where is it now??

maleDetroit-Escalat... | 6 May 2008 - 5:32pm

"But there would someone who is deeply interested in his identity..."

Yes, I suppose psychiatrists...


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"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others" ~ Groucho Marx

maleDagda | 6 May 2008 - 5:52pm

EdIsHere wrote:
He was misunderstood.
Big animal lover.

He was also quite found of combing his moustache and rubbing oil over his chest to make himself more "manly"


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Ni heolas go haontios - There is no knowledge without unity

malebergio1978 | 6 May 2008 - 6:50pm

I agree with EdIsHere . Much peoples of western europe don't know much about him


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Giovanni

maleEdIsBack | 6 May 2008 - 6:55pm

Mr-Brown wrote:
EdIsHere wrote:
He was misunderstood.
Big animal lover.

He was also quite found of combing his moustache and rubbing oil over his chest to make himself more "manly"

Are you confusing him with Tom Selleck?

femaleAcOrEaNa83 | 6 May 2008 - 8:27pm

According to the History Channel he actually helped save Moscow during WWII when the Germans were dropping bombs most people in the city were underground...


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"I dont need the internet..I already know everything."

malewizard7 | 6 May 2008 - 8:38pm

he was really a visionary and a theoretician, he was clever.and probably he was really alone..

malewizard7 | 6 May 2008 - 8:38pm

he was really a visionary and a theoretician, he was clever.and probably he was really alone..

maleDagda | 7 May 2008 - 12:34am

EdIsHere wrote:
Mr-Brown wrote:
EdIsHere wrote:
He was misunderstood.
Big animal lover.

He was also quite found of combing his moustache and rubbing oil over his chest to make himself more "manly"

Are you confusing him with Tom Selleck?


NO!


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Ni heolas go haontios - There is no knowledge without unity

femaleRika Kosta | 7 May 2008 - 12:10pm

There can`t be any simple answer... What I think about Stalin? About Stalin`s policy, about country status in his period, about his policy during WWII or about my relatives and relatives of my friends who perished from his inhuman repressions?
Well, i just can say that he is a person who makes people think about him and argue again and again: was hes role in Russian history positive or negative? It is astonishing that he still manages to make 47% of Russians think of his as a positive person, and only 29%-negative.


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I am nobody's little weasel

maleEdIsBack | 7 May 2008 - 12:36pm

Is that because only 29% were sent to the Gulags?

malepietro della | 7 May 2008 - 3:21pm

He sacrificed thousands upon thousands of russian soldiers to capture the reichstag by 1st of may...

maleDagda | 7 May 2008 - 7:08pm

Or The murder of millions of Ukranian's due to his policies


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Ni heolas go haontios - There is no knowledge without unity

maledeng | 7 May 2008 - 7:27pm

Of course he was alone. He prosecuted his friends.
He was a power monger, and a sadist.


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Daar is de lente, daar is de zon
bijna, maar ik denk dat ze weldra zal komen.
De fallus impudicus staat al in bloei
En de blaadjes krijgen bomen.
M'n vrouw en m'n kat zijn allebei krols
en de klokken vertrekken naar Rome

maleEdIsBack | 7 May 2008 - 8:56pm

Uncle Joe a sadist? Never!

malepolander | 7 May 2008 - 11:13pm

Good old Joseph Vissarionowich Dsugashwilli. I don't know if I have the spelling right but go ahead and yell hail Dsugashwilli three times without damaging some internal organ. The name Stalin (I think it means "steel" in Russian) was the nom de guerre he adopted while serving time for mail robbery.

femaletan_N | 8 May 2008 - 8:46am

Sadist? Of course never never! He just has sent many hundred thousands soviet innocent people to the Gulag or just executed by shooting them. Also as with my great-grandfather who has been arrested and without any court has been banished, and after that my family never heard about him any more. Ah, nice uncle Joe...


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Мы бобры, веселы.
Ёпрст... мы добры, веселы.
'Добры' надо говорить добрее,
а 'веселы' - как? Правильно, веселее!

maleslakker | 8 May 2008 - 2:04pm

He was a true communist, never forget that, kill 'em all on sight I say Gun


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frewurny glirt ptohtsm!

malepietro della | 11 May 2008 - 1:25pm

First among equals we might even say!

femaleTiska | 11 May 2008 - 8:49pm

He was grand, no doubt. In what ways, there a lots. He was a murderer, he was a visionary, he believed in something and he had no qualms when reaching out for something he wanted, that's for sure.

But he has left a great legacy: how not to establish communism.
He was brilliant in many ways, even in the ways of murdering people, he knew his tactics and he was capable of warfare, he believed in communism but he was too eager to force it upon the people.

Yet he was right:
"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."


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The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labour. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.
~ Albert Einstein

maleEdIsBack | 12 May 2008 - 12:36am

You know...some of your argument wouldn't be that popular with former inmates of the Gulag. Certainly he is the prime example of a dictatorship masquerading as a party for the people yet he was no more than a ruthless killer.
Oh and his one liners...the infamous one being "One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic. "

malepietro della | 12 May 2008 - 4:00am

He wanted utopia but human beings are not by nature utopian..

femaletan_N | 13 May 2008 - 8:30am

Tiska...
An idealization of Stalin? Dithyrambs to murders?!? hmmm...
More than enough to read 'Arhipelag-Gulag' by A.Solzhenitsyn or 'Kolyma Tales' by V.Shalamov about...'a live meat'... to understand that Stalin was not any BRILLIANT MYTH, but he was a CRUEL REALITY for many real people in Russia.
Just wonder...how easy is to admire the evil as long as it doesn't touch your personal life.


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Мы бобры, веселы.
Ёпрст... мы добры, веселы.
'Добры' надо говорить добрее,
а 'веселы' - как? Правильно, веселее!

maleJimC | 13 May 2008 - 11:19am

He's dead!

femaleTiska | 13 May 2008 - 1:13pm

Funny how people only read the part they disagree with. And funny as well how people always embrace thinking the worst about other people. He was a murderer, full stop. There you go.

By the way, Percy. You're wrong. I bet he lives in Malibu now.


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The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labour. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.
~ Albert Einstein

maleJimC | 13 May 2008 - 1:33pm

Wow, 129 and still flipping burgers and living the American dream Laughing

maleerwann | 13 May 2008 - 3:32pm

Ranks of Tyran : Number 2 after Hitler ! POL POLT take number 3 !

femaletan_N | 13 May 2008 - 7:03pm

Don't need to worry, all of Stalin's great ideas and deeds have been true valued IN Russia. But what about the superficial opinion about the brilliant sadism... it looks like people sometimes even have no idea what they say... that really is funny. Well, unfortunately only few people decide to learn a thing deeply before making opinions Wink


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Мы бобры, веселы.
Ёпрст... мы добры, веселы.
'Добры' надо говорить добрее,
а 'веселы' - как? Правильно, веселее!

malemaranello | 22 July 2008 - 9:25pm

Dagda wrote:
EdIsHere wrote:
He was misunderstood.
Big animal lover.

He was also quite found of combing his moustache and rubbing oil over his chest to make himself more "manly"

We're not talking about his 800 metre tall statues there are we. Wink Shocked: