What’s A Few Million ‘Purged’ Amongst Friends?
December 21, 2004
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Posted by Aubrey Turner
It amazes me that there are still people who idolize Josef Stalin.
Dozens of residents of Josef Stalin’s hometown celebrated the 125th anniversary of his birth Tuesday, singing, dancing and drinking champagne toasts to the late Soviet dictator.
People cried and kissed a 6-foot-tall cardboard cutout of Stalin and laid wreaths at the base of a monument in the small town of Gori, 50 miles west of the capital, Tbilisi, paying honor to the man who oversaw years of brutal purges and remarkable industrialization of an agricultural society.
Some of the people at this “celebration” remarked on how at least under Stalin they had jobs. I suppose it’s easy to think this if you were one of the lucky ones who didn’t get sent to a death camp. I wonder how the families of his victims and the few remaining survivors feel about him?
Categories: What the heck?
Actually it’s only a surprise to people not from that area. The people at the time, and the historical accounts show everyone thought there were these subversive traitors in the Soviet Union. Stalin was after them. But see, the state police just got out of hand, too zealous about tracking down the enemies and so unfortunately, innocents got swept up in the big net. Time after time people would beg/lament that if only Stalin knew what was going on, he would put it right. Even those being executed, knowing they were innocent, would sincerely praise Stalin just before being shot. I guess we just can’t quite picture it. I’ll be applying for block coordinator if the international-socialist people’s party (aka democrat party) seizes power from a free people again. Then there is gonna be trouble!