On Thursday 25 December 2008 03:30, Ray Saintonge
wrote:
One doesn't become truly educated when
someone is playing games with
one's emotions. That just breeds true believers and more victims of
patriotic folly. Stalin died in 1953, and while there might have been
some justification for such a project while he was still in power, now
it is nothing more than picking at old scabs to see if they will bleed.
Funny, that's exactly what Khrushchev used to justify repressing those
who
tried to write about the Stalinist repressions.
What Stalin did cannot be undone, but
understanding the importance of
those events in world history is not helped by dwelling on the minutiae
of individual tragedy.
The importance of those events extends way beyond geopolitics; their
importance IS the many millions of individual tragedies.
--
Kurt Weber