[Foundation-l] New project proposal: Soviet Repressions Memorial

[Fred Bauder]

> 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.
> 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.

A little study of the details might convince you otherwise. Most of those
killed were working people, many revolutionaries.

> A person entering the Holocaust Museum knows what bias
> to expect, as would a visitor to your museum.  It's not our job to be
> promoting those biases.
>
> Ec

Nor to promote the bias that nothing happened.

Fred