Joseph Stalin Appearing on Campaign Posters in Russia
- Posted on November 22, 2011 at 11:10am by
Buck Sexton
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It looks like Stalin is making a comeback of sorts.
At least, the former dictator’s cult of personality is.
Russia is heading for parliamentary elections next month, and the leaders of Russia‘s Communist party are using Stalin’s image on election poster to drum up votes.
Recently, billboards in Russia’s Far East displayed the old Soviet hammer-and-sickle emblem, the slogan “time to change the power,” and a portrait of Stalin, the Soviet leader who ruled with terror from 1922 to his death in 1953.
Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said last week that “Under Stalin, we lived 30 years without corruption. This is our history. You should know and respect the history, young man.”
Zyuganov has led Russia’s Communist Party since the early 1990s and came close to winning the 1996 presidency with 32 percent of votes against Boris Yeltsin’s 35 percent.
One of the greatest tyrants in history, Stalin killed an estimated 20 million people. His programs of forced industrialization, collectivization of farms, purges and mass executions has set the standard for evil totalitarianism.
This doesn‘t bother Russia’s Communists, who have placed statues of Stalin around Russia. Today Russia is a highly corrupt country with massive wealth inequality, which has left many Russians nostalgic for the old Soviet days.
There are other signs of Stalin’s image returning to the public square. According to the Wall Street Journal, “a number of television documentaries, films and books praise the dictator and a new history school book minimizes his crimes and declared him the greatest leader of the 20th century.”
Officially, the Russian government remains mum on the issue of Stalin’s crimes. In fact, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has praised Stalin as an efficient leader who turned the Soviet Union into a superpower.
(H/T: WSJ)
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Comments (96)
In detroit
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 1:52pmIgnorence realy does rule the world , Stalin a hero read a book poeple geeeeeez!!!!!
Report Post »Alucard
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 3:46pmYeah he’s only like # 3 on the all time list of most people killed under their rule. Right behind Mao and Hitler but why pay attention to history it just gets in the way of your agenda I guess.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 6:23pmLooks like others would like to go back to the good old days as well.
Report Post »TEXASGRANNY73
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 6:35pmHis daughter moved to USA to get away from Russia. She is still alive I think. Also Castro’s daughter lives here.
Report Post »SonOfaCommunist
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 8:32pmYAAA, finally someone has the balls to be honest! VIVA LA Torture of Execution of anyone we don’t like!!! Has a nice ring to it, just as long I’m the one in charge!!! IDIOTS, deserve Natural Selection!
Report Post »Lotus503
Posted on November 23, 2011 at 12:05pmYou just gotta love a guy that’s responsible for the killing of millions of your own countrymen.
Savages…
Report Post »shift
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:45pmI guess the bread lines of Russia are more popular than actually having a free market economy and never mind the mass executions and the persecution of religion and the fact that the only people that thrive in this kind of society are the ones cracking the whips. North Korea is alive and well today with the same mentality under their own Stalinistic leader Kim Jung who has his picture displayed in every home above every mantel and every bit of gratitude that is given always speaks of what a great leader he is meanwhile the people starve en mass and everyone is a spy against their brother so no one trusts anyone and no one dares to stand up. Nancy Pelosi comes to mind as the exact kind of trash that would love to be in charge of a regime like this in America, and the OWS crowd is filled with communist supporters. People get ready war is coming, no one has learned from the past and we are doomed to repeat it. Meanwhile Obama is doing everything he can to disassemble our nuclear arsenal and leave us unprotected. China and Russia will form an alliance with Iran, China, N. Korea, Cuba, Pakistan, and any of the other pro fascist countries that lived under the former Soviet Union.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 1:51pm“Under Stalin, we lived 30 years without corruption.”
Well, those who weren’t killed, lived.
Report Post »stoptheliesbho
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 2:12pmyep. the only ones who didn’t see it as corruption were corrupt themselves. oh – and NOT dead.
Report Post »Komponist-ZAH
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 4:02pmYeah, 30 years of Stalin’s murdering, suppression, anti-semitism, and paranoia, gulags and show-trials. But no corruption. That’s such a good trade-off.
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 1:40pmGeorge Patton wanted to send Stalin and his commies back to where they came from.. He keep a close eye on the commies and saw they were dismantling every possible thing they could get their hands on and sending it back to mother Russia . .And knew that at some point we would again be faced with the same fascists we destroyed getting to Berlin. But Truman and Ike would have no part of it…And well, then you have the mysterious auto accident …and poof …No more American looking to start a war….Look at modern history….I would love to ask George Bush …Did at anytime after 9/11 anyone in the military call for the total destruction of our enemy. If there was who was it and why did they not listen, them..I mean who decided we could pick needles out of haystacks for ever. .
Report Post »LOVE AMERICA
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 1:32pmI was born in the UKRAINE under RUSSIAN control and STALIN in power.This was terrible time for every one,if you did not belong to COMMUNIST PARTY bad news,the only people who could have excess to everything were the PARTY BOSSES,is this remind anyone of the UNIONS.To people who support BIG government its should be a reminder RUSSIA with STALIN, who was copied by HITLER.
Report Post »In detroit
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 1:49pmYou have nailed it , I shall call you wise thank you for your insight
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 3:13pmWe need more people that have survived the U.S.S.R. to come forward and inform the useful idiots here, what’s in store for them.
Report Post »They SMEAR what they FEAR
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 4:14pmWell said and a very true association. We also have some 30 odd “czars” and the fools of this country still dont get it…idiocy is rampant.
Report Post »B-Neil
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 1:27pmI could say happy days are here again, but I don’t think I could fit under the school house desk anymore. But by george will have us some jobs. CARRY ON McDUFF
Report Post »moreteaplease
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 1:10pmCommunist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said last week that “Under Stalin, we lived 30 years without corruption. This is our history. You should know and respect the history, young man.”
Report Post »****************************************
Apparently Mr. Zyuganov doesn’t know much about it either.
Carter John
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 1:04pmOnce I see Russia go red again I’m buying an arsenal.
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 2:30pmOur own White House has gone red. Russia is the least of our problems at the moment.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 3:16pmRussia never stopped being red. That government just changed their mask.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on November 23, 2011 at 9:02am……as for the mask change I always thought clowns were scary.
Report Post »killertofu
Posted on November 23, 2011 at 9:40amWhy wait? I didn’t. You know it’s inevitable anyway.
Report Post »AProudConservative
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 1:02pmHas anyone noticed the similarity between Barak Obama and congressional leaders recent daily comments; “The wealthy need to pay their fair share….. there is more inequality between the rich and the poor in the last thirty years than ever.” Compare it to the line attributed to what a communist leader said in this story; “Today Russia is a highly corrupt country with massive wealth inequality, which has left many Russians nostalgic for the old Soviet days.”
“massive wealth inequality’. Anyone else see the similarities between modern liberal Democrats and old Soviet Communists?
How did these people get elected? How do those in congress keep getting re-elected?
Report Post »Carter John
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 1:05pmBecause no one want’s to lose their seat to a term limit.
Report Post »CWW
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 3:30pmAnd, the Democrat’s gathering next year to re-elect Obama is called “The People’s Convention”.
They couldn’t have chosen a more fitting Communist Dictatorial title for it.
Report Post »thegodfather
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:52pmThose people could be the most ignorant on the planet, to long for the “good old days” of Stalin. Then again… Sean Penn is probably already contributing to the movement.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 1:08pmAm I to assume one sign represents the whole movement?
Report Post »Therefor, I must assume that the lone, radical guy that brought a kkk sign to a Tea party rally represents the whole group.
Also, I must then assume the lone guy that defecated on a cop car represents the whole OWS movement (no pun intended) and All of it’s participants.
I DO NOT have to assume that people generalize ad nauseam, since that is extremely evident.
CCRYDER
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 1:47pmIf only he would move there – oh happy day!
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:33pmAnti-Christ = instead of Christ…he will have the solutions ( will seem at any rate ) and the people will say yes to him because they have said no to God.
Those who save their lives will lose it, and those who lose their lives will save it.
Report Post »I am getting prepaired to lose everything I have, though I DO NOT hope for it.
tharpdevenport
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:30pmHow STUPID are the Russian people; all it takes it just one curious thought: how come the Russian population isn’t four times larger today?
Rebuke this, Castro.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:43pmHow stupid are we? We keep electing the same A-Holes and expect a different result following a known path to failure . We allow the ruling elite to play by different rules and do nothing about it. We worship overpaid Hollywood professional pretenders and professional athletes under the illusion they have anything figured out. We are constantly lied to and manipulated by the media ,yet we still listen. I’d say there is a whole lot of stupid going around.
Report Post »Underground Man
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:53pmThis is what happens when the government is run by disgruntled ex-KGB.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 1:42pm@Drattastic. you 100% correct.
Report Post »Most of the population still ingests too much fluoridated water, GMOs and preservatives.
It affects their pineal gland. dumbing them down and making the docile and innocuous.
most of them do not want to hear the fact that we no longer have a constitutional representative republic.
The progressives passed the federal reserve act in 1913
The progressives bankrupted America in 1933.
we have been bankrupt ever since.
Balancing a ‘Budget’ does not mean paying your old, ongoing debt.
America’s citizens were pledged as collateral to the federal reserve. ( A private bank that is owned by the global elite )
Birth certificates became law in all states in 1933. Social Security became law in 1936.
Your birth certificate is a security that is traded on the stock market.
The Secretary of Treasury is appointed by the fed to manage to bankruptcy.
Your taxes go to the IMF, run under the UN, to pay old debts and interest from previous loans.
The Money used to keep our government solvent are more loans w/ interest from the Federal reserve.
The Federal reserve tells the Secretary of the Treasury what loan “packages” to propose to the Congress and President.
I guess the last “package” is this 400 billion dollar “jobs” bill.
The receivers of the bankruptcy, under International UCC law, are running a de-facto Government under emergency powers.
They leave whats resembles a Government, playing on the Left/Right paradigm that keeps it’s factotu
arslin
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 1:51pmRussia for it’s entire history (Tsar and communist) has had a strong central leader. They know no other way. I have family that look back on the days of Stalin with fondness. It was when they see Russia as strong, and when they were at the peak of their prosperity. The fact that they were not one of the millions that died is irrelevant to them.
We (Americans) fear Putin. However, as this report pointed out, the communists are the “opposition party.”
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 2:01pm*Factotums Fooled.
Report Post »Think the global elite care if you get medical care or police protection because they like you, are your friends and are compassionate ?
they are protecting their asset and money generator (you)
You are considered a human resource and asset to the receivers of the Bankruptcy, expected to earn 1 million dollars in your lifetime, paying taxes and giving almost the rest of your earnings to the global elite, via water, food, electric, communications, medical, and insurance monopolies, to name a few.
You are a global elite slave.
Only way out of this is to print our OWN money, based on a gold and silver standard, or by some new, innovative, other standard.
Also eliminate almost all regulatory governmental agencies established after 1913.
We are to be free citizens of a sovereign nation, not pledged slaves to a private organization.
The Democrat vs Republican ideology is only a divisive distraction; a paradigm that perpetuates a ‘ Whack-a-mole’ game.
JimL
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 3:12pmYep.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 3:32pmThe Russian people know that they are still in a socialist nation. Years of living in that totalitarianist nightmare makes a person paranoid. They are not stupid, they are protecting their families.
Report Post »TeaParty_InTheSky
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:28pmwow what a shock russia is full of commie politicians, oh no what a surprise! (sarcasm)
Report Post »JimL
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:15pmRead and shelf a copy of, With God in Russia, Fr. Walter, S.J. Ciszek.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:23pmThis is potentially our future folks. At this point, it remains to be seen whether we will one day soon be living under the boot of Communists, a Muslim Caliphate, or perhaps something slightly more exotic, like a 4th Reich, since Germany is starting to throw their weight around in Europe again. No matter what happens, I’m not seeing things turning out well.
Report Post »Spqr1
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:13pmDuh, this has been going on since the fall of the USSR. This is not new or newsworthy, example #4212 of GOPers not having much of a clue about what goes on in the rest of the world.
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:47pmWhat is impressive is that the Russians have almost magically forgotten all the hell Stalin unleashed on them. Honestly, it is almost as bad as Hitler cult of personality gaining political power in Germany, or a Neo Napoleonic movement in France.
Some Russians have wanted communism back for a long time, cough Putin, cough. But the Stalinists have been separate from the communists since Khrushchev, and seeing the two coming back together is, disturbing.
Example 9001 of the ******** burying their heads in the sand.
Report Post »rockmanlinux
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:09pmOn the flip side at least Putin’s getting booed. :)
http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/11/21/booing-of-putin-at-fedor-fight-draws-international-interest/
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:08pmStupid is as stupid do! I never have met a wise commie! (Yes!)
Report Post »geonj
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:08pmwe need a totalitarian Russia. America has lost it’s counterpoint. people need to have something to hold American exceptionalism up to and say “see, this is why we are the greatest country in the world.
Report Post »JimL
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:28pmBetter communism through competition?
Report Post »TheGreatWolf
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 6:56pmAmerika has never been great it was founded on a stolen indigenous system and set in play through murder and genocide and religious fanatics funded by the bankers (Money Creators) and the borders crossed us, the indigenous. With your greed and insanity this is the outcome. Yes Stalin did some horrific things and he also did some really great things, I have yet to see Amerika do anything great or original besides killing, murdering, global genocide, theft, etc….. and you stupid Euro-Amerikans sit by running your mouths occupying and allowing all this insanity to continue in your nation and let your diseases spread to the rest of the world, you are all guilty by association and condemned. Remember some of us still do the Ghost Dance and are waiting patiently to mop up what remains of you Wasicu’s so before you go and point out other peoples problems you better damn well take care of all yours First!!! Enjoy what you have created through action and in-action, your insanity can not be cured!!! Don’t go away mad just go away!!!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 11:59amThat’s sad. Where will those, in Russia, who know better go now? The US? Where we have OWS idiots and an administration trying to turn our country into the USSR?
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:06pmThey had no corruption under Stalin…. Also no food no freedom no toilet paper no nothin !!!
Report Post »Once A Marine Always An American
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:16pmThe say they miss the old days of Russia. That the new has a rampant wealth disparity. So they want to go back the days when One person had all the money, and everyone else toiled for a crumb from the heal of a loaf of bread.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 11:58amApparently the Russians are “changing their history” since Stalin’s history is being changed to suit the new era. Michelle Obama said they were going to do the same thing here.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 11:52amI wonder when they will put Ron Paul’s pcture on some propaganda?
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:02pmYou know, when people start to look back at the most prolific mass murder in planetary history with nostalgia, it’s time to wonder just exactly what the hell is going on in the world.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:03pmWho? The off-world Aliens?
Report Post »CulpepperJosh1638
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 11:48amAnd you‘d call me crazy if I said we’re on the brink of WW3. The Russians continuously figure out ways to undermine us and have been re-building since the “Cold War” ended. Look at the land grabs the Russians and Chinese have made possible in the past twenty years and tell me there isn’t something going on. There is no coincidence that we are crumbling economically and these totalitarian states are rising. Dark times are ahead for humanity.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:02pmAnd Russia had a spy network here with Mikhail Vasenkov posing as a professor Juan Lazaro at CUNY – which was allowed to quietly return to Russia by Obama ! Interesting , huh ? Maybe Obama can put Putin on his ticket. Or vice versa ? Or maybe we sand send our Occupiers over to Russia where they would feel more at home ? Hmmmmmm.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 11:46amThese people are so indoctrinated that they Worship a killer of Millions of their Peers!
So, what hope is there for the Current US University Students?
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 11:54amOWS where the Guy Fawke masks and Che shirts. Mass murderers looked upon as revolutionaries.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 11:55amGreat point…….. NO HOPE!
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:07pmReally make one wonder….
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 11:44amNo surprise that Putin praises Stalin. Of course, Stalin knew what to do with the opposition and Putin would do the same if he has a chance. Putin is, has been and will always be a COMMUNIST THUG!
Report Post »LOVE AMERICA
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 1:21pmPutin killed a lot of opposition ,how you think he stays in power! Remember this russian kgb agent who defected to england ,he was killed by putin with radiation. Now one was punished, because putin refused to extradite this kgb agent back to england.I forgot his name,but he had to be put in a special casket,
Report Post »because of radiation.Putin is stalin reincarnated.Putin is a devil!
NSDQ
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 11:43amI wonder if this is what 475 AD felt like?
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 11:48amYes…
Report Post »Depressed_American
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 11:36amNo he only killed 40 million Russians, and made Hitler look like a Saint……..
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 11:37amMaybe they want to cull the herd once again?
Report Post »netmail
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:40pmPossibly too much of the “herd” is sick, which will make for a so-called ‘reasonable excuse’ to “cull” it???
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