Russia seizes Stalin-era research Oct 17, 2009
Joseph Stalin didn't trust Russia's ethnic German population ... Although they had lived in southern Russia for generations - mostly along the River Volga - Soviet leader Joseph Stalin did not trust them. (BBC News -- Europe)
Koreans left high and dry Oct 16, 2009
During the 1917 Russian revolution and subsequent civil war, ethnic Koreans overwhelmingly supported the communists, but in 1937 they were deemed politically unreliable and forcefully relocated from the border with Japan (leader Joseph Stalin and his advisers were afraid that in case of war with Japan, the ethnic Koreans would side with the Japanese). They were then settled in Central Asia. (Asia Times Online)
Russian court rejects Stalin case Oct 14, 2009
A Moscow court has rejected a lawsuit filed by the grandson of Joseph Stalin claiming a Russian newspaper had defamed the Soviet dictator. Yevgeny Dzhugashvili said an article published in Novaya Gazeta claiming Stalin personally ordered the deaths of Soviet citizens was a lie. (BBC News -- Europe)
Soak-The-Rich Strategies Backfire In State After Deficit-Ridden State Oct 8, 2009
said: "You can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met." W.E.B. DuBois, writing in the National Guardian (1953) said: "Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other ... 10/05/2009 06:11 PM ET I learned a lot about the cost of health care when I had a hybrid general surgery practice in California's rural San Joaquin Valley. My practice consisted of uninsured women with breast cancer combined with a smaller percentage of cosmetic patients... (Investors Business Daily)
Elites and Tyrants Oct 7, 2009
Diane Watson said, in praising Cuba's health care system, "You can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met." W.E.B. Dubois, writing in the National Guardian (1953) said, "Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. ... But also -- and this was the highest proof of his greatness -- he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate." Walter Duranty called Stalin "the greatest living... (Townhall.com)
How Toll Of 'Social Justice' Eludes Elites Oct 7, 2009
W.E.B. DuBois, writing in the National Guardian (1953) said: "Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. ... But also and this was the highest proof of his greatness he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate.". Walter Duranty called Stalin "the greatest living statesman .. . a quiet, unobtrusive man." George Bernard Shaw expressed admiration for Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin. (Investors Business Daily)
The Public Will Pay Oct 6, 2009
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Another Snowe Job? Oct 6, 2009
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Obama's permanent depression Oct 6, 2009
The financial crisis crushed the entrepreneurs, as surely as Joseph Stalin crushed the kulaks, the relatively affluent peasants. Obama inherited a crisis, to be sure, but he has made it much worse. (Asia Times Online)
Then Marx came tumbling down ... Sep 30, 2009
Similarly in Georgia, after the August 2008 war with Russia, Joseph Stalin lost his "Georgianess" and was seen by government as the very embodiment of Russian imperialism - from which, it is now claimed, Georgia suffered for centuries. A huge effigy of Stalin in the eastern city of Gori - his place of birth - suffered an ignominious end last month. (Asia Times Online)
After 208 Years, Is Britain's Observer Near the End? Sep 23, 2009
" A "new look" Observer, expected to be leaner, is in development. At Monday's meeting, some speakers speculated about what this could mean. Nobody can deny that British newspapers are feeling the pinch; there have been redundancies at most titles, and many predict increasing consolidation of national and regional titles. Observer journalists still fear the Guardian-ization of their newspaper. A union representative warned that any attempt to impose compulsory staff cuts would trigger a strike... (Time.com)
Legendary Soviet spy mistress dies aged 97: official Sep 22, 2009
Mukasei worked in tandem with her husband Mikhail on a string of undercover operations abroad in a career that spanned the 1940s under Joseph Stalin to the late 1970s. The pair operated under the codenames "Zephyr" (Mikhail) and "Elza" (Elizaveta) and such was the sensitivity of their work that the modern successor to the KGB has yet to disclose full details of their operations. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Grandson to tell court Stalin was no murderer Sep 16, 2009
LUKE HARDING IN MOSCOW. schools teach he was a great but flawed leader. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Teaching Right Sep 15, 2009
In fact, in the 1930s American conservatives were far more obsessed with Franklin D. Roosevelt and his domestic legacy than with Joseph Stalin, and looked askance at all foreign entanglements, including the Second World War. The anti-Communist cause was first conceived by cold-war liberals, not by conservatives. (The American Conservative)
GOP embraces groups protest Sep 13, 2009
compared Obama's Tuesday address to U.S. schoolchildren to the tactics of Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot and other murderous dictators. "Totalitarians of all stripes put great emphasis on brainwashing the young, and Obama is no exception," he wrote on the group's Web site under the name "rossputin.". (MSNBC -- Politics)
How Americans dealt with the Depression Sep 13, 2009
If Americans wanted to hear a good story, they preferred Louis B. Mayer s to Joseph Stalin s.. Movies were a secular religion for Americans in the 1930s, their stars the denizens of a modern Mount Olympus. (Boston Globe)
Hitler AIDS ad pulled from YouTube Sep 10, 2009
The campaign, which also features posters of Joseph Stalin and Saddam Hussein lookalikes in flagrante, was organised with AIDS awareness group Regenbogen e.V. ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1. Contacted by AFP, a spokesman for Regenbogen declined to comment on the withdrawal of the video. (Yahoo! Asia News)
The Fhrer Spreads Aids Sep 9, 2009
Poster versions of the campaign feature Saddam Hussein and Joseph Stalin, also with young female partners, while a radio spot uses a Joseph Goebbels speech. But Aids organisations across the continent have criticised the project, believing that it can only serve to compound the stigmatism that Aids sufferers already feel. (The American Conservative)
Charities criticise Aids-awareness ad featuring Hitler lookalike Sep 7, 2009
The campaign, which also features mocked-up posters of Joseph Stalin and Saddam Hussein having sex with naked women, was organised with Aids-awareness group Regenbogen e.V.. We asked ourselves what face we could give to the virus, and it couldn't be a pretty face. (BBC News -- Europe)
Obama's message to schoolchildren angers Republicans; Critics accuse president of indoctrination... Sep 7, 2009
But the plans of Barack Obama, US president, to address students across the country on Tuesday have set off a political firestorm the fiercest of his critics are comparing him to communist leaders Joseph Stalin and Kim Jong-il, and are accusing him of trying to indoctrinate children with socialist ideas. EDITORS CHOICE. (The Drudge Report)
'Hitler' stars in AIDS awareness advertisement Sep 7, 2009
The campaign, which also features posters of Joseph Stalin and Saddam Hussein lookalikes en flagrante, was organised with AIDS awareness group Regenbogen e.V. ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1. AIDS has killed around 30 million people worldwide, and almost 6000 more die every day, according to the campaign. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Hitler sex video condemned by AIDS groups... Sep 5, 2009
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Gabon: Election Result Sparks Turbulence Sep 5, 2009
com: Gabon: Election Result Sparks Turbulence (Page 1 of 1). Gabon: Election Result Sparks Turbulence. (allAfrica.com)
Two Septembers: 1939 and 2001 Sep 2, 2009
Sept. 17, however, sealed Poland's fate, as Russian forces invaded eastern Poland -- the "stab in the back" by Joseph Stalin. Poland collapsed. (Townhall.com)
Did Hitler Want War? Sep 1, 2009
A hundred million Christians were under the heel of the most barbarous tyranny in history: the Bolshevik regime of the greatest terrorist of them all, Joseph Stalin. What cause could justify such sacrifices. (Townhall.com)
* Stalins return to Moscow metro sparks outrage Aug 30, 2009
Russian liberals voiced outrage at a scandalous restoration in which an inscription praising former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was returned to a Moscow metro station on Thursday. The outcry came after officials unveiled a restored entry hall to Kurskaya metro station in central Moscow featuring all the details of the structures original 1950 appearance X including the slogan lauding Stalin. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Kenya: Hague Court Prepares Post-Polls Violence Trials Aug 29, 2009
Mass Murderer Joseph Stalin , Who Was Behind The Robbing And Murdering Of. Millions Of Russians, Is Famous For The Following Quote. (allAfrica.com)
Stalin's bid for a new world order Aug 27, 2009
In the fourth of a series of articles marking the outbreak of World War II 70 years ago, the BBC Russian Service's Artyom Krechetnikov assesses Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's motivations behind the 1939 Soviet-Nazi pact ... Joseph Stalin in 1939. (BBC News -- Europe)
Anna Akhmatova Brief Bio and Works Aug 20, 2009
In 1934 her only son, Lev, was arrested and sent into exile by Joseph Stalin. This was more than enough inspiration for her to write the poem Requiem, which remained banned in the Soviet Union until long after she was demised. (Suite101.com)
› Russia backed by Israel Aug 19, 2009
Western historians of the period have long irritated Russia by emphasising how strategic errors by wartime dictator Joseph Stalin and brutal purges of his top officials complicated the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. In recent years, the celebration of anti-Soviet wartime resistance movements in Poland, Ukraine and the Baltic States has also angered the Kremlin. (iAfrica.com)
Friday TV: Go Girls Aug 12, 2009
Over the years, Radio Free Europe and a second station, Radio Liberty, would break significant stories, such as Nikita Kruschev's denunciation of Joseph Stalin, the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising in Hungary and the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. Skilfully told by its ageing participants, this doco merges the stories of individuals with the history of a station that today broadcasts into Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Did Clinton Promise Anything in North Korea? Aug 10, 2009
Did Clinton Promise Anything in North Korea. Did Clinton Promise Anything in North Korea. (Human Events Online)
Hawaii's move into statehood traumatic for many Hawaiians Aug 10, 2009
Honolulu Advertiser publisher Lorrin Potter Thurston also was initially opposed to statehood, and he used the front page of the newspaper to reinforce fears that Hawai'i's labor unions represented an internal communist threat to the nation with his infamous "Dear Joe" letters, fake correspondence from supposed union officials to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Ultimately, the various positions taken by those opposed to statehood proved no match for the mass of public opinion, which held that... (Honolulu Advertiser)
We do not need president for life Aug 6, 2009
This could open the way for someone to become "president for life" as has happened with such historical notables as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini and others. One would think that a constitutional amendment would be necessary to create a "president for life" position, but with the dirty politics going on in this country, Congress just might be able to pass an "emergency enabling act" to bypass the constitutional method of selecting a president. (Yuma Daily Sun, AZ)
Letters for Monday, August 3, 2009 (1279) Aug 5, 2009
c wrote on Aug 3, 2009 10:57 AM:" To Pete Antonson,Fair enough, but I would disagree with your idea that both Chairman Mao and Joseph Stalin could be considered liberals.Here is why.Chairman Mao is too easy, and so that this is shorter, we can just do Joseph Stalin. Does he sound like a liberal to you? Or a hard liner conservative?1) Stalin joined the Bolsheviks in 1903, he organized and armed Bolshevik death squads across Georgia, running protection rackets and waging guerrilla warfare on... (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Why You've Stopped Watching CNBC Aug 5, 2009
The consensus on CNBC seemed to be that President Obama was half Joseph Stalin, half Jimmy Carter. Viewers could have been excused for thinking that the network was throwing itself in with the Republican Party, which has become politically invested in the failure of the Obama economic program. (Slate)
A day of reckoning for Bush's 'torture' lawyers Jul 30, 2009
The Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, argued that 50,000 German general staff officers should be executed. In February 1945 at the Yalta Conference, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill favored shooting all the Nazi leaders. (Christian Science Monitor)
Remembering a Hungarian Freedom Fighter Jul 29, 2009
What is the difference between a Joseph Stalin and an Adolf Hitler. For a man like Kiraly, very little. (Townhall.com)
Lemonade Stands, Business Instincts, and Surviving the Recession Jul 29, 2009
Originally known as the Joseph Stalin Palace of Science and Culture, it featured a special throne room from which later Soviet dictators could watch the proceedings of Community Party congresses that convened regularly in the Congress Hall. By 1994, the Poles had discovered the best possible way to insult Stalins evil ghost. (Townhall.com)
Freedom from Religion Foundation pleased by Lodi council's efforts to remove Christ references from invocations Jul 28, 2009
Pat Maple wrote on Jul 27, 2009 6:31 AM:" Perversion: pedophiles, rapists Hate: murderersIntolerance: Protesters at churchesBigot: somebody with strong opinions, especially on politics, religion, or ethnicity, who refuses to accept different views..too many to point out...Worse: Idi Amin, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Baby Doc and on and on.What someone said or did centuries ago may have an effect on us today but it does not govern us...that is OUR job. Should we go back to the caveman?... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
* Novelist shares tales of Pakistans hidden world Jul 26, 2009
I find it scary that extremists in Pakistan are trying to force their rigid prescriptions down our throats, he said, invoking a comparison with Joseph Stalin, who ruthlessly consolidated his power by crushing any dissent. The Utopian, he said, quoting from a book of Auden, dreams of some august day of outrage when hellikins cavort through ruined drawing-rooms and fish-wives intervene in the Chamber, and for a time when those he hates shall hate themselves instead. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Society must be torn down before 'change' Jul 26, 2009
Joseph Stalin purposely starved Ukrainians to make it easier to seize farms and turn them into collectives. Hopefully before change becomes that radical, voters will replace the collectivist community organizers. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
The nuclear perils of the 21st century Jul 23, 2009
Joseph Stalin did not possess the resources that would have allowed him to explore making an atomic bomb on his own unless impelled to do so by American nuclear development. Neither would any other country have had the resources and know-how to make a bomb. (Boston Globe)
South Africa fails the poor, who struggle on regardless Jul 20, 2009
To paraphrase Joseph Stalin: The poverty of one man is a tragedy. The poverty of millions is a statistic. (Business Report, South Africa)
On The Verge of An Intelligence Purge? Jul 19, 2009
In the 1930s, Joseph Stalin conducted a paranoiac purge that impacted all segments of Soviet society, notably the military. Having killed off most of his best generals and military minds, he and his nation paid the price in the early years of World War II. He bought time with his pact with Hitler in 1939, but was still nearly defeated two years later at the beginning of the Nazi invasion of his country. (Townhall.com)
Sotomayor's Bias Jul 16, 2009
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas." - Joseph Stalin. "All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party." - Mao Zedong. (CBS News)
Man doesn't pay for 'Only God can judge me' tattoo Jul 10, 2009
NEW YORK What does Angelina Jolie have in common with Joseph Stalin and Thomas Edison as well as two out of every five Americans between the ages of 26 and 40. They all have tattoos. (Fresno Bee)
Xinjiang - China's energy gateway Jul 10, 2009
This is not a forced internal population transfer of the sort imposed by Joseph Stalin on the Chechens during World War II, but it is no less official and less compulsory only by degree. Given the threat of unrest in the homeland of Han-populated China further east, the recent rioting between Han and Uyghurs, killing at least 156 people, can only further alarm the authorities' endemic disquiet over popular discontent. (Asia Times Online)
Hands Off Honduras! Jul 9, 2009
What FDR meant was that, in those grave times when Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin and Japanese militarists ruled most of Eurasia, America must take her friends where she could find them. In World War II, we welcomed the alliance with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, and the neutrality of the autocrats of Madrid and Lisbon. (Human Events Online)
Outfest opens at the Orpheum Theatre Jul 9, 2009
As my colleague Kenneth Turan mentions above, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art screens Sergei Eisenstein's final film, the two-part historical epic "Ivan the Terrible, Parts I Friday and Saturday evening. The first part of the film chronicling Russia's first czar was released in the USSR in 1944. Presenting Ivan as a hero, the film was warmly embraced by Joseph Stalin. But not so the second part, which was completed in 1946. In that, Eisenstein offered a less sympathetic portrayal. The film... (Multichannel News)
Book Reviews Jul 5, 2009
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore The early years of Joseph Stalin make for an exotic tale. Widowed at 22, Stalin's heart turned to socialism and he soon grew into a gangster chief, a four-time political exile and a talented poet. (Asia Times Online)
Resolution on Stalin riles Russia Jul 4, 2009
Joseph Stalin continues to be a hero to many Russians, who credit him with defeating Nazi Germany. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Europe)
How Franken won Jul 2, 2009
the dems are just following their old hero - joseph stalin when he said: "it's not who votes that counts; "it's WHO COUNTS THE VOTES. " Posted by: infantry11b4faus | July 1, 2009 11:39 AM | Koolkat,are you supporting or denying "Red State -- FAT STATE. (Harper's Magazine)
Black Market Gear: Deals of The Week Jul 2, 2009
Now you'll have the perfect piece of clothing to wear with your Joseph Stalin mask during Call of Duty clan night. Just remember that in Soviet Russia, you don't play CoD4, CoD4 plays you. (IGN Gear)
Nigeria: Obasanjo, Atiku Feud Disrupted 2007 Election - Iwu Jul 2, 2009
com: Nigeria: Obasanjo, Atiku Feud Disrupted 2007 Election - Iwu (Page 1 of 1). Nigeria: Obasanjo, Atiku Feud Disrupted 2007 Election - Iwu. (allAfrica.com)
Did Someone Say Coup? Jul 1, 2009
In a statement that could have come from Vladimir Lenin, Adolf Hitler, or Joseph Stalin, he declared, "I am going to go after those resisting the revolution and eliminate them one by one." His targets have included priests, independent journalists, businessmen, opposition politicians, and Venezuela's tiny Jewish community. Globovision stands accused by the government of "media terrorism" because a commentator suggested that Chavez might end his days the way Benito Mussolini did. (Townhall.com)
Friday's TV: Footy Chicks Jun 24, 2009
Laurence Rees' compelling drama-documentary features engaging performances by Alexei Petrenko as Joseph Stalin, Paul Humpoletz as Winston Churchill and Bob Gunton as Franklin D. Roosevelt but they take a back seat to the thrilling, at times shocking, narrative about World War II. It begins as an examination of Stalin's place in the conflict but is really the story of the relationship between those three key figures. Footy Chicks. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The Tiananmen Moment Jun 19, 2009
After Joseph Stalin s death in 1953, East German workers rebelled, and were crushed. Rather than let the Hungarian Revolution triumph, in November 1956 Nikita Khrushchev ordered in the tanks. (The American Conservative)
White House: Firing AmeriCorps IG an act of 'political courage'... Jun 19, 2009
White House: Firing AmeriCorps IG an act of "political courage". By: Chief Political Correspondent 06/18/09 2:18 PM EDT. (The Drudge Report)
Bridget Kendall: History lessons Jun 18, 2009
There, youngsters ill versed in the history of the recent past, have bought into a government that sponsored false nostalgia about a benign and benevolent Soviet Union, and even worse, of the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin airbrushed as a war hero. But perhaps, in conclusion, there are two key issues to watch: whether a government is prepared to use force, and whether it can effectively control the information space. (BBC News -- Africa)
The Anti-Reagan Jun 16, 2009
He did not mention that the United States forced the retreat of Joseph Stalin s army from Iran in 1946. For the 100th time, he declared, I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States, and I have ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed by early next year. (The American Conservative)
Curt Smith: To win back market share, Detroit must first win back imaginations Jun 16, 2009
Detroit s primacy was obvious, like Joseph Stalin s evil. Last month, at age 101, GM went bankrupt, becoming a ward of Uncle Sam. (Medfield Press, MA)
Gleeson goes from Mad-Eye Moody to Churchill May 30, 2009
Brendan Gleeson portrays Winston Churchill, Len Cariou portrays Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Alexy Petrenko portrays Joseph Stalin in a scene from, "Into The Storm," premiering, Sunday, May 31, 2009, at 9:00 p.m. EDT on HBO.. Susan Allnutt / AP. (MSNBC -- News)
How Putin Is Snookering Obama May 27, 2009
For a time, even mass murderer Joseph Stalin improbably morphed into the jovial, pipe-smoking Uncle Joe. When the American establishment finally reversed course and accepted that the Bolsheviks were there to stay, it clung to that belief so adamantly that the collapse of the Soviet Union took the CIA by surprise. (Slate)
Rwanda: Some Things We Know About Genocide May 23, 2009
My longstanding interest in the way Joseph Stalin had betrayed the Russian Revolution introduced me to the famine in the Ukraine, but once again the issue of genocide was marginal at best. Despite perpetually trying to keep abreast of African matters, I had never heard a word about the anti-Tutsi pogroms unleashed by the new Hutu rulers of Rwanda in the 1960s, and certainly knew nothing whatsoever about the vast massacre in 1972 of educated Hutu by the Tutsi soldiers who ran Burundi, which some... (allAfrica.com)
