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

[Kurt Maxwell Weber]

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
http://blog.kurtweber.us
<kmw at kurtweber.us>