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Before the crisis, Gori was famous mainly as the birthplace of Joseph Stalin. In recent days, it was the target of bombings by Russians. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Russians move deep into Georgia, reports say Aug 13, 2008
However journalists in Gori, the birthplace of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, said they had seen no Russian tanks. Residents there told the journalists they had earlier seen "some" Russian tanks, but not in large numbers. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- Racing)
Prayer video that sought a Barack Obama drenching gets yanked Aug 13, 2008
We must go Back to Joseph Stalin and Hitler for an equivalent peril. " And the following posted by "Obama Prey. (Los Angeles Times)
Man of character Aug 12, 2008
" Birmingham-born Rigby developed an interest in the theatre while at grammar school and trained at Rada after stints working as a labourer and in a factory. He landed a job with the Birmingham rep and became a very capable stage actor who appeared in several National Theatre productions, including No Man's Land, directed by Harold Pinter. There were also roles in The Cherry Orchard and Waiting for Godot at the National Theatre. In 1977 he was cast as Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin the Royal... (Mirror.co.uk)
Newsweek: Why the West should intervene Aug 12, 2008
Comment: And, the most brutal ruler of the Soviet Union was Joseph Stalin, who ruled from 1922 to 1953 ... It was also Joseph Stalin who was born in Gori, Georgia who is STILL revered today in Gori ... Or are Joseph Stalin and Mikhail Saakashvili just demented leaders who happen to be Georgians. (MSNBC -- International)
Georgia: Gori Takes the Brunt of the Russian Blitz Aug 10, 2008
As Russia widens its war with Georgia beyond the separatist territory of South Ossetia, the city of Gori, famous for being the birthplace of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, has been hit the hardest. The civilian casualty toll is climbing, and anyone with the means is leaving. (EurasiaNet.org)
THE PIPELINE WAR Aug 10, 2008
Russian jets widened the offensive by bombing the central Georgian town of Gori Joseph Stalin s birthplace in an attack on military targets that Georgian authorities claimed killed 60 civilians, and attacked the port of Poti. Georgia claimed that Russian troops had opened a new front by moving into another disputed province, Abkhazia, which has also suffered from ethnic tensions. (The Drudge Report)
FAITH: Letters, NCT, Aug. 8, 2008 Aug 9, 2008
Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin would have liked 3D. ... liberaljim wrote on Aug 8, 2008 5:31 PM:3D disagreed with ABACUS. ABACUS responded that "he is the favorite of atheists and agnostics who blog in this forum. Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin would have liked 3D." ABACUS's irrational reaction to 3D provides enough fodder enough for this agnostic. (North County Times)
The anatomy of an Olympic winner Aug 8, 2008
Joseph Stalin took it to heart and so did the authorities of all European communist countries, in what must be one of the most widespread cases of victims acquiring the habits of their oppressors. China has followed in these traditions, although with a different purpose. (Asia Times Online)
Before the prophet, the writer Aug 6, 2008
After Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler, all ideologies fell to pieces. And suddenly, a book like this appears. (Asia Times Online)
Obama can 'change this mess we're in' Aug 6, 2008
Larryj wrote on Aug 5, 2008 6:09 PM:" I should also like to point out, that in the past Century, Socialists, such as Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong were responsible for the Murder of over 100 Million innocent people. You bet I am afraid of Socialists. You should be too! ". Larryj wrote on Aug 5, 2008 6:28 AM:" Denny McGinnis wrote on Aug 4, 2008 5:16 AM:" Carol - -this is the second time I have been excited about a presidential election. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
An icon of his age Aug 5, 2008
In an online poll (admittedly wildly unscientific) taken in recent weeks, the totalitarian leader Joseph Stalin is a front-runner for the title of greatest Russian. It was criticism of Stalin, expressed privately in a letter to a friend, that landed Mr Solzhenitsyn with an eight-year sentence in the camps. (The Economist)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: His final interview Aug 5, 2008
In your letters from the front, you were unflattering about Joseph Stalin, and the sentence for that was eight years in the prison camps. Solzhenitsyn: It was south of Wormditt. (Independent)
Once upon a time, voters turned out for elections Aug 5, 2008
The people who cast the ballots don't decide the election; the people who count the votes do. There is a runoff election in Georgia today, and some of you will head to the polls. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Solzhenitsyn: exiled then exalted in Russia Aug 5, 2008
Widely viewed as Russia's greatest contemporary writer, he will be best remembered for works that depicted the harsh underbelly of Soviet society under dictator Joseph Stalin. But his books, including several works of nonfiction, suggest the far more ambitious goals of seeking to reappraise Russian history. (Christian Science Monitor)
Death of a Writer Aug 5, 2008
Stephen Kotkin , Anne Applebaum's history of the Soviet prison camp system, and Applebaum , a literary biography of Joseph Stalin. Vijai Maheshwari of the Soviet era as Russia's new literature. (Slate)
The Man Who Kept On Writing Aug 5, 2008
Anne Applebaum , a literary biography of Joseph Stalin. Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair. (Slate)
Russian Gulag writer Solzhenitsyn dies aged 89 Aug 4, 2008
Solzhenitsyn played a key role in undermining Joseph Stalin's totalitarian regime, Gorbachev said. His works "changed the consciousness of millions of people, forcing them to think more about the past and the present". (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Pacifism: The Last Refuge of Hypocrites Aug 1, 2008
During the Cold War, these were the same people, as devoted as ever to serving the interests of Joseph Stalin, who insisted that America unilaterally disarm itself and turn its atomic arsenal into plowshares. When Bill Clinton sent U.S. troops into Kosovo, a place where no American interests were involved, the left raised no objections. (Townhall.com)
The greatest Russian? Jul 23, 2008 Quotes of Note Jul 19, 2008 Remains identified as czar's children Jul 18, 2008 As I See It: Bush is no Hitler (July 17) Jul 18, 2008 Who's the fairest of them all Jul 17, 2008 Papers mull over financial woes Jul 16, 2008 Monkeys caught in crossfire of Russian politics Jul 15, 2008 Ford reading at Prairie Lights inspired by experience with Katrina Jul 15, 2008 * Going beyond the big man approach to leadership in the US Jul 14, 2008 Opinion: Sir John Templeton: iconic innovator in finance and religion Jul 13, 2008 The Morgentaler debate: It's life that's in question Jul 8, 2008 Paid volunteerism. More Obama. Jul 4, 2008 * Never underestimate propaganda Jul 4, 2008 Pinocchios of the Left Jul 4, 2008 Zimbabwe: West Can 'Go Hang,' Says Mugabe Aide Jul 2, 2008 Abkhazia's tourism fights to regain fabled legacy Jul 2, 2008 Stronger levees are needed Jul 2, 2008 * Germany celebrates anniversary of airlift Jun 27, 2008 SUPREMES TO RULE ON GUN RIGHTS Jun 26, 2008 Hallmarks of a vain man Jun 23, 2008 A Skeptic's View of Voting Jun 20, 2008 Eisenhower's Military Career Jun 19, 2008 The Eisenhower Presidency Jun 19, 2008 The Re-Sovietization of Russian Press Jun 17, 2008 The Franklin Roosevelt Presidency Jun 13, 2008 Woman pretended to be mom of girl who got abortion, say officials Jun 12, 2008 How the West Lost the World Jun 3, 2008 Lennon Family Loses Bid to Block Use of 'Imagine' Excerpt in Film Jun 3, 2008 A Victory in California? I Think Not May 30, 2008 Yushchenko heads home with assurances May 29, 2008 SHE SAID SAME THING IN MARCH? May 24, 2008 Free of the monster, Stalin's analyst revels in fresh air May 21, 2008 Geraldine Ferraro calls Obama 'sexist'; may notvote for him in election... May 21, 2008 Big Brother database for phones and e-mails May 21, 2008 So what does Obama believe? May 13, 2008 Newsweek: Inside the life of James Bond's creator May 9, 2008 Tajikistan: Government Shakes Down Population Amid Deepening Economic Dysfunction May 8, 2008 Judge: NFL retirees can sue over licensing deal May 3, 2008 Solomon Volkov's "The Magical Chorus" May 2, 2008 Putin's New Role: Soviet Echoes Apr 16, 2008 Devils and angels in Taiwan Apr 11, 2008 On Your Mind Apr 10, 2008 Paranoia backed by just cause Apr 7, 2008 Armenian Brandy Apr 5, 2008 As It Happened: The Long March Apr 4, 2008 Was It 'The Good War'? Apr 4, 2008 Pressure Builds on al-Queda Speech Writers Mar 31, 2008 What's in a Name, My Fellow Ghanaians? Mar 28, 2008 Faith and Values Letters for Friday, March 21, 2008 Mar 22, 2008 U.S. made the right decision Mar 19, 2008 California Courts Effectively Ban Home Schooling Mar 16, 2008 Jeff O'Bryant: Wanted: A Real Leader Mar 15, 2008 The High Cost of a Free Lunch Mar 15, 2008 Klimt And The Golden Art Of Vienna Mar 10, 2008 * Time to declare the end of the Age of Friedman Mar 6, 2008 University Museum exhibit captures the emotions of the Hungarian Revolution Mar 4, 2008 Chess takes the world on board Feb 28, 2008 Russia's likely next leader visits Serbia Feb 25, 2008 Approval rating Feb 22, 2008 Show pride that youre American Feb 19, 2008 Hillary, Queen of All Media Feb 15, 2008 Hail, hail to Malaysia's Pak Lah Feb 14, 2008 Q&A: Volga tripRupert Wingfield-Hayes answers your questions about Russia Feb 13, 2008 Unlike McCain, Hitler 'Had a Coherent Tax Policy,' Coulter Says Feb 12, 2008 Obama On Romney: An 'Ineffective Candidate'... Feb 8, 2008
Two historical figures are vying for the top spot: communist dictator and mass murderer Joseph Stalin and Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, shot by the communists with his wife and children in 1918. Twelve winners, picked from 50 names selected in the previous round, will be profiled in a TV series and will face a vote by the audience. (Boston Globe)
BRITISH LIBRARY: Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament Jul 23, 2008
The seller, the Soviet Government of Joseph Stalin, sold the Codex to obtain desperately needed foreign capital. Before it came to Britain the Codex had been one of the treasures of the Imperial Russian Library in St Petersburg. (USA Today -- Tech)
"He's like a brand. It's like Coca-Cola."-- ALEXANDER LYUBIMOV, executive at Russia's Rossiya TV station, on former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who is the early leader in an Internet poll to name Russia's greatest hero. "I was ready to vomit."-- EDWARD KELLY, president of the Firefighters Union, on how he reacted to video of firefighter Albert Arroyo, who had been collecting salary on disability leave, participating in a May bodybuilding contest. (Boston Globe)
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who led in the early going, is now in second place, and there have been accusations here that the television channel, embarrassed by Stalin's popularity, orchestrated Nicholas II's ascension to the top spot. The czar and his family have been canonized by the Orthodox Church. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Its also critical that you avoid the fatal mistake of getting creative and comparing people you dont like to other evil dictators, such as Joseph Stalin or Fidel Castro. With few exceptions, white people are actually fondof almost any dictator not named Hitler, and your remark that this is just like something Mao Zedong would do will be met with blank stares and possible social alienation. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Currently Czar Nicholas II leads Joseph Stalin, lower left, and Vladimir Lenin. As of Tuesday, Nicholas II was ahead with more than 267,000 of the 2. (Globe and Mail -- International)
The Independent is alarmed that large numbers of Russians are voting for Joseph Stalin as the country's most significant historical figure. The paper believes the poll reflects a universal hypocrisy - that when searching for national heroes we often display a selective memory. (BBC News -- UK)
The only stain on the institute's illustrious reputation was its association with the controversial scientist, Ilya Ivanov, who in the 1920s - with backing from Joseph Stalin - dreamed of creating a hybrid ape-human. The macabre goal was to produce a creature with limited intelligence and extra-human strength to carry out the manual labour needed to modernize the Soviet Union. (Globe and Mail)
She went to a number of Russian poets who wrote under the rule of Joseph Stalin. "These were people who were under a government that took life, and the urgency of their writing was something I needed to learn from," she said. (Daily Iowan, IA)
But some of the most powerful leaders in history, such as Napoleon, Joseph Stalin and Deng Xiaoping (Hp) were little over 1. 5m tall. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
He once startled me by describing how difficult it had been to love Joseph Stalin. He later worked at loving Saddam Hussein. (Christian Science Monitor)
"Death solves all problems. No man, no problem" - Joseph Stalin. by Nite Owl Jul 08 2008 3:32 AM. (National Post)
Common sense conservativism. The entry titled "Paid volunteerism. More Obama.," and any of the comments about it. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
This has been seen time and again, under such dictators as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao and Chiang Kai-shek (). Long-term brainwashing and propaganda divests the public of its ability to judge facts. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Back in the bad old days of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union built what were called Potemkin Villages. These were show places designed to convince gullible American tourists that the Soviet Union was the workers paradise they claimed it to be. (Townhall.com)
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The Abkhaz, the indigenous ethnic group, claim a long history separate from Georgia and allege that Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin (an ethnic Georgian) redrew the map to make Abkhazia part of Georgia and ordered thousands of Georgian settlers into the region. When Abkhazia tried to declare independence following the USSR's collapse, they say, the Georgian army was sent in to suppress them. (Christian Science Monitor)
We opposed Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin for their unprovoked attacks, but now we ve done the same. Our invading Iraq, killing and imprisoning all those who resist and setting up a puppet government is little different than what they did. (Longview Daily News, WA)
In an effort to squeeze the Western powers out of Berlin, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in June 1948 blockaded all rail, road and ship traffic into the city. On June 26, the US and Britain launched Operation Vittles X an unprecedented airlift that would supply some 2 million West Berliners with food and fuel for 11 months until the Soviets lifted the blockade; and several months after that in case Stalin decided to change his mind. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
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By allowing only kosher pictures of him to be disseminated to the media, the governor is airbrushing some important moments of history from the collective memory of this nation not unlike Joseph Stalin airbrushing Trotsky and Lenin from that historic picture. And, he could be setting a bad precedent: our ministers always behave like parrots. (iAfrica.com)
Joseph Stalin regularly won elections with a plurality of 99. 9. (Townhall.com)
For more than a year after this, Eisenhower remained in command of the Allied forces in both success and failure, being promoted to General of the Army in December of 1944, and dealing face to face with world leaders such as Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. From the World War to the Presidency. (Suite101.com)
Joseph Stalin died the same year that the Korean War ended, but relations with the U.S.S.R. remained tense. Under Eisenhower, the United States continued to develop its nuclear arsenal (which now included the hydrogen bomb), and Russia did likewise. (Suite101.com)
It was not until Nikita Khrushchev that the Soviet Union admitted to Joseph Stalin s purges of nearly 20 million of their own people. And it was not until Mikhail Gorbachev s glasnost and perestroika that the press gained some semblance of freedom of speech and the public some access to information. (Human Events Online)
Roosevelt had put in place, however, through military and diplomatic means (such as his famous Yalta conference with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill) the means for victory, including the construction of the atomic bomb, which was even then being completed in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Roosevelt is remembered by many as having been one of the greatest Presidents of the twentieth century, and even of all time. (Suite101.com)
We all have the choice to be more like Mother Teresa or like Joseph Stalin in our world human views. A culture that enacts laws to protect the dignity of all human beings, especially the most vulnerable - is society that is blessed indeed. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Result: a Hitler-Stalin Pact and a six-year war that left scores of millions dead, Europe in ruins, the British empire bankrupt and breaking, 10 European nations under the barbaric rule of Joseph Stalin and half a century of Cold War. Had there been no war guarantee to Poland, there might have been no war, no Nazi invasion of Western Europe and no Holocaust. (Human Events Online)
In "Expelled," the 15-second excerpt is played during four black-and-white sequences of archival footage showing a group of children in a circle, a young girl spinning and dancing, a military parade and Joseph Stalin waving. Lyrics from the song -- "Nothing to kill or die for/And no religion too" -- appear on the screen as subtitles. (Law.com)
For it was in 1928 that his old chum, liberator Joseph Stalin proposed to collectivize the economy and put away Lenins National Economic Plan, a more fascist/middle-ground approach to socialism. Bukharin believed collectivization would impoverish the peasants, inspire resentment, and lower productivity. (Newsmax)
He also gave momentum to a private member's bill that will soon see Canada become one of the first countries to recognize the Holodomor as an attempt by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to wipe out the Ukrainian peasantry. "Why can one of those policies that unites us not be NATO integration? Why can't this be our mutual subject for understanding?" he said in an interview at a Toronto hotel, sounding exasperated. (Globe and Mail)
Hillary's Bizarre RFK Comment - Swampland - TIME. Posted by Karen Tumulty. (The Drudge Report)
FOR more than a decade, the historian Simon Sebag Montefiore has been "living with a monster" - the late Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, a man he describes as a "mix of Osama bin Laden and Tony Soprano". It was, he says, a dark, sometimes downright scary experience. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The fact that his views are left of Joseph Stalin, doesn't know how many states there are. 57. (The Drudge Report)
I seem to hear the ghost of Joseph Stalin chuckling. Ha ha ha. (Times Online)
But, Adolf Hitler, Charles Manson, Joseph Stalin, and Ted Bundy all believed that 1+1=2. So, you shouldnt believe it. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
He was considered by his bosses to be an intrepid reporter--indeed, there is a letter in the exhibition from Joseph Stalin turning down Fleming's request for an interview when the Briton was in Moscow covering an espionage trial. After a stint as a financier in the City, Fleming was recruited by --Fleming's inspiration for "M"--to work as his assistant. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Channeling the spirit of Joseph Stalin, officials in Tajikistan, Central Asia s poorest state, have asked residents in the capital Dushanbe to give up part of their salaries "voluntarily" to help finance construction of a hydropower plant. The fear of government reprisals is compelling many Tajiks to comply. (EurasiaNet.org)
During testimony, Parrish compared Upshaw to Idi Amin, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and several other despots. The judge also took offense to several racially insensitive comments the white Parrish made about the union and Upshaw, who is black. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NFL)
Joseph Stalin, left, circa 1929, with the Russian novelist and playwright, Maxim Gorky. (Agence France-Presse). (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The same was true of Joseph Stalin and his titular Head of State, Mikhail Kalinin. Nikita Khrushchev combined the offices of the Gensek and Prime Minister, while Leonid Brezhnev combined his leadership of the party with the role of head of state, because he desired the 24-gun salute and red carpet treatment on his foreign visits. (Time.com)
The younger Chiang was, by all accounts, a more efficient and more brutal leader, having learned government at the knee of Joseph Stalin. Chiang Ching-kuo died in 1988. (Asia Times Online)
It s also interesting how those who argue against religion in society deliberately forget Joseph Stalin s heartless slaughter of millions of people in his quest for a godless society. With all the crime going on in our county, I cannot see why our D.A. doesn t quit picking on our Border Patrol people for just doing their jobs. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
The long-ago crimes of Joseph Stalin need not be forgotten, nor the recent authoritarian abuses of Putin's regime denied, for an American to ask whether Washington is again pursuing self-defeating policies that make escalations of tension with Moscow more likely instead of less. In the late 1940s, journalist Walter Lippmann decried Washington's quick recourse to war-talk, and the demonizing assumptions of the "totalitarian school" of Kremlinology, because both "furnished the Soviet Union with... (Boston Globe)
Ararat Brandy Has a Famous History, Plus a Homemade Cordial. The Yerevan Brandy Company has been making its famous Ararat Brandy since 1887. (Suite101.com)
The details of the actual event are all there, but the filmmakers could have done with a bit more historical context, especially when it comes to Mao Zedong, who, as well as being a charismatic and intelligent ruler, also went on to challenge Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin as one of the 20th century's greatest slaughterers of human life, with a count of about 40 million victims. So although the Long March is an important historical event worth documenting, it's not one worth celebrating, which... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
But for Joseph Stalin, it was also a good war. From his pact with Adolf Hitler he annexed parts of Finland and Rumania, and three Baltic republics. (Townhall.com)
I spent years working hard in Madrassa, studying old videos of Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini, to really learn how to motivate the masses to jihad. At madrassah we had it all, internet, video equipment even voice recognition software, it made issuing fatwahs a breeze. (Human Events Online)
Joseph Stalin, the psychotic ex-Soviet leader, was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvilli. And Nelson Mandela, the most prominent African alive today, was born Rolihlahla Mandela. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Let me add a modicum of historical precedent to Mr. Karlson's argument: Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Mao Tse Tung, Fidel Castro and Ho Chi Minh were all successful in ridding their nation's politics of any and all reference to God. They did so knowing deep within their hearts that it was the only way to ensure that their subjects would live happily ever after. (North County Times)
In June 1950 communist units of the North Korean Army burst across the 38th Parallel on order from Joseph Stalin and pushed south toward Pusan, South Korea. In September 1950 Gen. Douglas MacArthur ordered an amphibious assault at Inchon, crossed the 38th Parallel and headed north to end the war. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
As Joseph Stalin once stated, Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. Or as Nobel Laureate economist Milton Friedman pointed out, it is frightening that the most socialized commodity in this nation is education. (Human Events Online)
Granted, the height of its evil under Joseph Stalin s rule which resulted in at least 3 million and perhaps as many as 40 million deaths was long over. But even by Reagan s presidency more than a quarter century after Stalin died the Soviet Union maintained the Berlin Wall, continued its military buildup at the expense of other much-needed internal reforms, and held its people in the grip of communism. (Catoosa County News, GA)
The end result of his 12 years in the White House is a hodge-podge of Washington bureaucracies and an economy that finds the federal government being far and away the single largest employer in the U.S. Couple that with his personal fondness for Joseph Stalin, his filling his administration and the State Department with like-minded idiots, and you have a perfect blueprint for disaster ... The end result of his 12 years in the White House is a hodge-podge of Washington bureaucracies and an... (Townhall.com)
Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin were there, plotting. Gustav Mahler was conducting the city's orchestra. (CBS News)
And Deng, while a vast improvement over his predecessors -- former Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and former Chinese leader Mao Zedong (AF) -- failed on all five, with the possible exception of number three. We do not know what Deng's desired set of economic arrangements for a system of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" was, and, in all likelihood, he did not know, either. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Smoke hangs above a pile of burning records and photographs of Joseph Stalin. Two men in long trench coats add pieces of paper bearing the famous mustache of a man known for oppression, to the burning debris. (The New Hampshire, NH)
"It was a decree from Joseph Stalin. It was an expression of the superiority of the Soviet Union over the West, over capitalism.". Chess training academies were lavishly funded in the Soviet Union, and promising players were groomed from a young age. (Asia Times Online)
Nenad Canak, leader of the reformist Social-Democratic League of Vojvodina, accused Kostunica of trying to turn Serbia into a "Russian Gulag" referring to the system of slave labor camps established under former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. "Today we must choose between Europe and Asia, between democracy and totalitarianism," Canak said Sunday. (MSNBC -- International)
You re really a HARDCORE bomb-throwing marxist totalitarian left-wing lunatic Stalin-wannabe fringe Castro-loving zealot who, if given the opportunity, who do to her opponents what a Saddam Hussein or a Joseph Stalin (two of IN THE BOWELS favorite all-time heroes) did to theirs. You murderous left-wing godless atheists scum. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Ivan Dixon wrote on Feb 18, 2008 6:01 PM:" Question: What do Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Pol Pot all have in common? Answer: All three of these mass murderers attended schools in which the day was opened with prayers. The idea that school prayer will instill morality in children is a crock of silt. ". Ernie wrote on Feb 18, 2008 3:52 PM:" danielh, interesting. Today I do not feel there is a war against God. It's more like "my God is better than yours" attitude and "I am saved and you are... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
This portrait reminds Us of the 1932 Pravda front page photos of Joseph Stalin when he was crushing the kulaks and collectivizing the farms, and had to present himself as the Strong, Resolute Leader nobody dare cross ... This portrait reminds Us of the 1932 Pravda front page photos of Joseph Stalin when he was crushing the kulaks and collectivizing the farms, and had to present himself as the Strong, Resolute Leader nobody dare cross. (Townhall.com)
Abdullah may not be in the same league as North Korea's Kim Jong-il, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein or the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin, all notorious for the personality cults they built around their leadership, but the Malaysian leader has shown a knack for political marketing - similar to the techniques ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra deployed to shore up his administration's grass roots popularity. With elections around the corner, the question now is whether or not the... (Asia Times Online)
Many Russians I have met, particularly the older ones, speak wistfully of the old days of the Soviet Union, and even of Joseph Stalin. Many people seem to yearn for a strong figure who will sort out all their problems. (BBC News -- Europe)
Hillary Clinton to the alliance between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin during World War II, which was formed to defeat Hitler. "I'm not comparing McCain to Hitler," she added. (CNSnews.com)
What about Joseph Stalin or Saddam Hussein. I don't mean to imply that he is the leader of the axis of evil, I just mean to point out that he hasn't denied being any of these evil leaders. (The Drudge Report)
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