Ukranian Nationalists Demolish Communist Statue of Josef Stalin
- Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:35pm by
Meredith Jessup
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In a New Years Eve blast detonation, a group of Ukrainian nationalists allegedly destroyed a statue of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin — a symbolic act the country’s Communists are decrying as “an act of terrorism.”
The bust of Stalin, unveiled last May, caused immediate controversy in a country split between its nationalist west and the more Russian-oriented east, which fondly remembers its Soviet roots:
France 24 reports:
“A criminal broke into the grounds of the Communist Party regional headquarters, and laid an explosive charge which detonated after a few minutes,” the Communist Party said.
“The statue of Stalin was destroyed as a result of the blast,” the Communists said in a statement. It said that the explosion inflicted serious damage on the building but there were no casualties. …
The local police said in a statement that according to its information a group of several people passed the monument just a few minutes before the explosion. “One of them climbed over the fence and fastened to the monument a shopping bag which evidently contained the hand-made explosive device,” the police said, adding that those behind the blast were currently being searched.
Meanwhile, the nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) group reported that the police had already arrested its head in Zaporizhia, Vitaliy Podlobnikov, and his deputy on the youth issues, Yuriy Hudymenko, on charges of causing the Stalin monument destruction.
The same statue had been badly damaged last week in a blast claimed by Nationalist group Tryzub (Trident) which denounced Stalin as “the executioner of the Ukrainian people and an international terrorist.”
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Comments (91)
idrathermisstotheright
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:55pmPiven’s call for violence happened!
The free people rising up against the commie, did she call that right?
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:52pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdoMssKv38o
On the culture! Nigel Farage UK. Speaks at EU and gives em what for!!!
Report Post »idrathermisstotheright
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:51pmPivens call for violence happened!
Glad the free people are rising up against the commies!
Report Post »IVillageIdiot
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:44pmTWO WORDS: Larger Bomb……
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:43pm“unveiled last May”
OK, I’m not upset anymore. Not exactly museum-worthy.
Report Post »super_jalapeno
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:41pmI wonder if Comrade Obama will denouce this act of “Terrorism”?
Report Post »TheDHndrsn
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:48pmI had the very same thought. Glad you suggested this one!
Report Post »stmike
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:39pmOh yeah one more thing. MY dad’s side of THE family is Ukraine. My great grandparents fled to U.S. to escape the Marxist cesspool over there. So this story really made me smile!
Report Post »stmike
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:33pmAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Sorry couldn’t resist that. Good job! Now all that needs to be done is stamping out every last practice of marxism on the face of the planet. Taking out the symbols of it IS a start though.
Report Post »spreadcommonsensenot pc
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 5:48pmI had to take a shower after that comment—I felt dirty hahaha
Report Post »spreadcommonsensenot pc
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:32pmWhat a bunch of racists…………………………………………………got to be those eastern Euro tea partiers
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:31pmDoes one of history’s greatest bastards really need an effigy on display to be remembered? Seems to me like this is a natural consequence. Hell, if you’re a communist, I suppose this is almost akin to an assault on one’s religion. Communist supporters? Man, I will never understand masochism.
Report Post »TheDHndrsn
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:20pmGod bless these folks. It is a travesty the way America has turned it’s back on some of the strongest potential allies we could have. We prefer instead to “reset” back to the old days of MAD and aspirations of collectivist world domination. Thee One be down wit dat. Thank God there are clear thinking “terrorists” left in the world.
Report Post »Thing
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 10:36pmI would not bless this pepole my friend, altough just like you i like what happened to Stalins staue, we need to remeber that
A. Ukrainian nationalists are not only nationalists, but also nazis, for example the Waffen SS 14th Grenadier Division, was also known as 1st Ukrainian, its soldiers where elite of the Ukrainian nationalistic movement, and they are considered by modern day nationalists as national heroes
B. Ukrainian partisans colaborating with Germans where responsible for probably the most brutal ethnic cleansing events during WWII, they slaughtered/tortured to death, more than 100 000 civilians, Jews,Poles etc, ppl of all ages, including newborns and pregnant woman
This is team Hitler vs team Stalin all over again, evil vs evil
Report Post »grahampink
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:17pmAntifa, one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. Stalin was really into statistics.
Report Post »JollyTrooper
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:12pmI remember that bust being placed. All that went through my mind was “That won’t last too long.”.
Thank goodness that people still remember Stalin for the murdering thug that he was.
Report Post »sullinsea
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:10pmErecting a statue honoring Josef Stalin in Ukraine is like erecting a statue honoring Adolph Hitler in a formerly Jewish section of Berlin.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/stalin.htm
Take care and be cautious though. This could be a pretext for Russian intervention.
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:25pmWow. An intelligent and insightful comment. I’m nodding in respect.
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 5:54pmGood call on the Russian intervention…..that is indeed how they like to work.
Report Post »GIRL
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 8:04pmExactly. Stalin murdered or starved to death approximately 8 million Ukrainians… and some are wondering why a statue in his honor is opposed??
Report Post »Chester
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:51pmExactly what I was thinking. My father escaped “Uncle Joe’s” Ukraine. Most of my family was exterminated in the Ukraine by “Uncle Joe’s” NKVD (Secret Police). I can’t understand why ANYBODY would think ANYTHING good about Stalin (or any communist / Markist to that matter)? Stalin killed more people than Hitler ever did…Hitler was a nobody compared to “Uncle Joe”. Stalin was such an nice guy that he had executed most of the liberated Soviet POWs who returned to the Soviet Union at the end of the Second World War. Got to love it. A Red soldier, survive the Nazi’s only to be sent to a Gulag in Siberia and worked to death or if lucky…just executed out right.
Report Post »grahampink
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:02pmOr Glenn Beck’s Revolutionary Holocaust.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=glenn+beck+revolutionary+holocaust&aq=0
Report Post »ANTIFA
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:08pmI always had a problem with Beck’s “Revolutionary Holocaust” documentary. There’s a lot of misuse of quotes, not the least of which was the fact that the “revolutionary worldstorm” (Marx never used the word Holocaust, I assume Beck changed it to make it sound more imposing) that Marx was referring to was the then-ongoing capitalist-industrialist revolution.
Report Post »BenInNY
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:16pmHere are the two quotes I found, likely a translation thing.
“The chief mission of all other races and peoples, large and small, is to perish in the revolutionary holocaust.” -Karl Marx Die Neue Rheinische Zeitung NZR January 1849
“The classes and the races too weak to master the new conditions of life must give way… They must perish in the revolutionary holocaust”
In any case Holo = whole, caust = burned. So there is really no difference.
Report Post »- Karl Marx ( Marx People’s Paper, April 16, 1856, Journal of the History of Idea, 1981 )
ozz
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 1:26amI have a history degree, and I have yet to see Glen be any thing but dead on with his history teachings.
Report Post »flagbearer
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:01pmGod be with the ones arrested. While I don’t condone violence or destruction such as this, the act serves as a reminder that freedom is too precious to let government and tyrants take it away from us here in America. If we lose ours, the world at large will suffer. How can any loyal American truly believe that any other system is better than our Constitutional republic and economic capitalism? Cloward and Piven, Saul Alinsky, and their ilk are comrades of Stalin.
Report Post »randy
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:00pmSo someone blew up a statue of a mass murderer.
Report Post »Hmmm.. seems like a pretty good first step to me
HemiOwner
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:59pmOutstanding!
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:59pmThose that loved the statue forget or dont’ know what Stalin was about. Those that destroyed the statue probably had family killed by him.
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 10:20pm@Gnome…troll……A loan???…….all bullcrap.
Report Post »darlenekay
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:55pmIf you don’t believe that Stalin was a mass murderer, please watch The Soviet Story. This is history that seems to have been forgotten by Americans.
Report Post »ANTIFA
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:01pmThere are very few people, even among modern American socialists, who don’t believe Stalin was a mass murderer.
Report Post »UnreconstructedLibertarian
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 5:27pmHere is the Stalinist massacre, you might even remember the host?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvuL0wKPLHQ
You might notice the region is common in the clip and this story.
Report Post »Dustoff
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 5:37pmI haven’t…. This man along with Lenin murdered untold numbers.
Report Post »darlenekay
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:52pmHey, send the statue over here. I’m sure the Obama administration can find someone to restore it so it can be postioned in an area of prominence at the White House. Obama and his cronies see to love these Communist murders.
Report Post »AmericanLass
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:58pmTrue, Obama adm is probably crying over this news.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:08pmThey can put it where Churchill one sat before Obama boxed it up and sent it back to England. Just one of many insulting gestures this clueless administration has done – or maybe they aren’t clueless, just plain crass and without any class what-so-ever.
Report Post »C.C.D.
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:11pmThat’s what I was thinking. They could send it to the Obama’s and they could replace the angle on their Christmas Tree with it.
Report Post »GnomeChomsky
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:50pm@Grandma
A British Embassy spokesman said: “The bust of Sir Winston Churchill by Sir Jacob Epstein was uniquely lent to a foreign head of state, President George W Bush, from the Government Art Collection in the wake of 9/11 as a signal of the strong transatlantic relationship.
“It was lent for the first term of office of President Bush. When the President was elected for his second and final term, the loan was extended until January 2009.”
Yes, returning something when the loan was up sounds clueless and crass to me.
Report Post »ozz
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 1:21am@GnomeChomsky Link your proof or shut up. This would not be the first or even 20th lie you posted.
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:45pmThat’s a good news . Job well done .
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:44pmI would like to thank them for the reminding the world that communism is murderous. Some how people are lulled into forgetting that most important point.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 6:30pmAgreed .. but will this be on the evening news? I doubt it or the MSM will try to spin it.
Report Post »BoatFix
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:41pmI am glad to see my family members who still live over there agree with this!
Report Post »ANTIFA
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:36pmSic semper tyrannis.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:33pmwell done.
Report Post »Curator_JDR
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:58pmNancy Pelosi has seen that kind of violence before :) Good for them! Ukranians won’t be fooled again, and neither will WE THE PEOPLE
Here’s a new animated feature that shows the insanity of the Progressives. Its very funny. http://www.marcrubin.com/hairmerica.ivnu
Report Post »John 1776
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 5:58pmWe should do the same to the one in front of… oh wait… it’s not there yet. Well, I am sure they will have one up in the next year or two to celebrate all the progressive / socialist advances that have been made, and to honor the inspiration.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 8:00pmThe Ukrainians might be under siege
http://thebirdflupandemic.com/archives/mutant-h1n1-swine-flu-or-pneumonic-plague-number-of-people-in-ukraine-with-mystery-illness-almost-doubles-in-two-days-to-nearly-half-a-million
ozz
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 1:16amROFLMAO!! True patriots. Tyrants deserve public execution not statues.
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 7:40amThey could always replace it with a new shiny statue of a big eared multy named multy religoned and multy race Marksist …….oh wait thats Americas symbol…Obama
Report Post »racialcoward
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:25amSTALIN, THE BUTCHER OF THE UKRAIN
This is all Obama’s fault. The world looks to America as their last resort for the hope of liberty and freedom and Obama has stabbed these people in the back. The hearts of the American people are still with the Ukrainian people and help is on the way when Palin becomes President.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:10amwhy it was still up is beyound me. Stalin was responsible for 3 times as many murders as Hitler.
Report Post »*************************
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 4:07pmHey! Obama wanted that commie Stalin statue! (Don’t worry, Barry. Maybe you can pick one up on eBay?)
[campfire cowboys making rude loud body noises]
Report Post »cowboy LYLE: “How ’bout some more beans, Mr. Taggart?”
boss TAGGART [sniffs, then fans air with his hat] “I‘d say you’ve had enough!”
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free2bme1961
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:28amHurrah!!!
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