Roosevelt listens to S.D. energy development plans Oct 21, 2008
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sailed to the Suez Canal in Egypt after attending the Yalta Conference with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. President Roosevelt arranged a meeting with King Abdulaziz Al-Saud on the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal. (Madison Daily Leader, SD)
Politicians needs to be careful of who they associated with Oct 20, 2008
The Obama campaign characterizes Ayers as a school reformer which is akin to calling Joseph Stalin an agriculture reformer. Ayers flew to Venezuela in 2006 to attend a school reform conference and celebrate communist dictator Hugo Chavez's Marxist school system there. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Murder Russian-Style: Political Assassination Oct 20, 2008
"Death solves all problems," Joseph Stalin once declared. "No man, no problem." While , his management-style remains in vogue. (Time.com)
Georgia: Abkhazia Reasserts Control over Upper Kodori Gorge Oct 17, 2008
Within Abkhazia, ordinary citizens often describe the Kodori Gorge operation as a long-overdue move to push back against a neighborhood bully, a perception fueled by still-red-hot resentment over the 1931 decision by Georgian-born Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to make Abkhazia part of Georgia. "Georgia has 4 million people. To us, it s like China," explained one Abkhaz businessman in Sukhumi. (EurasiaNet.org)
Prank or Crime? Oct 17, 2008
John McCaslin : Prank or Crime. Columns, funnies in your inbox. (Townhall.com)
Lessons from grade school Oct 15, 2008
Joseph Stalin was a Community Organizer. These Community Organizers are responsible for the Murder of over 75 million innocent people in the last Century. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
All for Umberto: Building dedicated to longtime Italian resident interned during WWII Oct 14, 2008
At the gathering honoring him on Monday, Benedetti told a story about a photograph he had of Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. Then he realized, even as he spoke at Monday's gathering, that this was another thing he could give. (Missoulian, MT)
Adele Vexler's column should be study material Oct 14, 2008
-- JILL A. WHITE, HamiltonMcCain would guard against terrorist attack Seventy years ago a political joke was told about life in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. It was said that there was complete freedom of speech in the Soviet Union and that anyone could say whatever they wanted -- but only once. (NJ.com -- Times)
Monetary Stalinismin Washington Oct 11, 2008
Amongst the worst tragedies of Soviet collectivization was the Ukraine famine of 1932-33, which took six million lives as Joseph Stalin practiced forced appropriation of crops and imposed very low prices for agricultural products in favor of industrialization. Interference with the pricing mechanism and Stalinism in the form of very low prices for agricultural products also caused famines in India in 1965 and in China in 1969, with a human death toll well into the millions. (Asia Times Online)
Robert Gates warns of strained US-Russia relations 'for years' after Georgia conflict Oct 11, 2008
How they actually performed we will take that analysis at a greater remove, but in terms of what they did rather than how they did it, I think they behaved very badly," he added. Let's not forget that Joseph Stalin was from Georgia. Any how many people died in the FSU because of him?Tony, Hoboken, USAThe pro-Russian claim that S Ossetia is majority Russian is false. Ethnic Russians are only 2% of the population of 95,000. The rest is 2/3 Ossetian and 1/3 Georgian. I don't think it's accurate to... (Yahoo News -- U.S. Military)
Poland: Jazz and all that politics Oct 10, 2008
During the first half of the 1950s, the death of Joseph Stalin and Wladyslaw Gomulka's appointment as First Secretary in the Polish regime had a more liberalizing effect on the country. Jazz was out in the open once more; being listened to, talked about and played without fear. (CNN -- International)
Letter: Letter's claim about Obama entirely absurd, unfounded Oct 10, 2008
7), comparing Barack Obama to Joseph Stalin. Besides being ridiculous, it is utterly disturbing that anyone would compare Obama to one of the most evil dictators in history. (Daily Collegian, PA)
An Amicus Brief for Neville Oct 6, 2008
Chamberlain's failure was that he trusted Hitler at Munich, as his great rival Winston Churchill would trust Joseph Stalin at Moscow, Tehran and Yalta. Mr. Buchanan is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of and. (Human Events Online)
Berlin Airlift vets dedicate memorial, honor the fallen Oct 5, 2008
The Berlin Airlift was a massive effort that supplied West Berlin after Communists troops, on order of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, closed rail and road access to the city in June 1948. Otherwise surrounded by Soviet-controlled East Germany, the closure left the city cut off from supplies -- a move Stalin assumed would force American troops and their allies out of the city. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Three candidates vie for state's highest elections post Oct 4, 2008
Sharbono quoted the late Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who said, It's not the people who cast the votes that are important. It's the people who count them. (Missoulian, MT)
League's leaders dictate a bottom-to-top approach Oct 3, 2008
Like Joseph Stalin, Craig Bellamy and Des Hasler had a plan to claw their way to the top of the pile, writes Andrew Stevenson. The first five-year plan was Stalin's. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Obama buys own satellite TV channel; loops 2-minute ad... Oct 3, 2008
Ben Smith's Blog: The Obama channel - Politico. Obama having his own channel. (The Drudge Report)
After war, Russia's influence expands in Caucasus Oct 3, 2008
But Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, an ethnic Georgian, folded South Ossetia and Abkhazia into Georgia. That had unintended consequences when the USSR collapsed in 1991, triggering separatist rebellions in both republics. (Christian Science Monitor)
* Vincent Siew: a poor, lonely choice Sep 23, 2008
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and some emperors of the Han, Song and Ming dynasties didnt really begin their period of rule until they had executed most or all of the officials who had done the fighting for them. Although the former government did appoint some outstanding government and party officials that contributed to the social security system and general industrial transformation, Chen and other key leaders, while adept at fighting, did not know how to rule and failed to promote a... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Why Mbeki went Sep 22, 2008
" These criticisms are not just held by the Communist Party, they are a reflection of the unease on the left as a whole at the policies that Thabo Mbeki adopted. Anger at the president's strategy to tackle the problems of unemployment, in particular, contributed to his downfall. Victims unite All politicians make enemies. That is the nature of the game. But President Mbeki has made more than most. One example should suffice to illustrate the problem. In April 2001 the country's national daily,... (BBC News)
Opinion: It's a Chinese thing. You wouldn't understand Sep 15, 2008
During the 1950's, despite being aware by then of the ghastly depredations wrought against the people of the Soviet Union under the merciless rule of Premier Joseph Stalin, many of America's starry-eyed leftists continued to find tortuous and ingenious ways to absolve the sadistic Communist dictator of his crimes against humanity. Stalin's Western apologists expected that, given time and a little leeway, Stalin would finally taper off from his tendency to starve and slaughter his countrymen; he... (EETimes)
READ MORE > Sep 13, 2008
Pariah wrote on Sep 13, 2008 3:54 AM:" Michael, I would like to remind you that George Bush cannot run again.So many Democrats are repeating the line from Move On dot org, and the Daily Kos that Jesus was a Community organizer while Pilate was a Governor. I would like to remind everyone that Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong were both Community Organizers and responsible for the murder of over 75 million of their own citizens, While Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter were both Governors. ". ADD YOUR... (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Who is Barack Obama? Sep 13, 2008
Mark S wrote on Sep 13, 2008 3:12 AM:" Joseph Stalin was a community organizer. Bill Clinton was a Governor. ". JON wrote on Sep 12, 2008 11:19 AM:" All right...this wall has proven that both sides buy in to every single half-truth and outright lie spread through the internet, conservative talk pundits, and even the advertisements on each side of the campaign. You complain about politicians being corrupt, but you hurl insults at each other and don't know the facts...making this no better. Anyone... (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Obama will bring 'real change' to Washington Sep 13, 2008
" Keith wrote on Sep 13, 2008 3:23 AM:" Joseph Stalin was a Community organizer, Bill Clinton was a Governor. Mao Ste Tung was a community organizer, Jimmy Carter was a Governor. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
How Truman defied the odds in 1948 Sep 13, 2008
Without consulting his Secretary of State, Gen. George Marshall, the president decided to send his crony, Chief Justice Fred Vinson, a man with no expertise in foreign policy, to Moscow to chat with dictator Joseph Stalin in the hope of easing U.S.-Soviet tensions. Clifford later called Trumans idea a mistake which could have cost him the election had Dewey exploited it. (MSNBC -- Terrorism)
A postwar cultural reckoning for Georgia Sep 9, 2008
A statue of Joseph Stalin, who was born in Gori, could be seen through a shattered window. "This war was a spat between two global powers. It was not an ethnic war between Georgians and Russians.". (International Herald Tribune)
Posh and Uzbeks: minnows think big Sep 6, 2008
7 The population of around 28 million includes a small Korean community forcibly relocated by Joseph Stalin in the 1930s. 8 The nation is 88 per cent Muslim, mostly Sunni. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
The failure of two empires Sep 5, 2008
At first impression, it seems that the greatest among all Georgians - Joseph Stalin - is back. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, his most implacable enemy, the author of the major anti-Stalin work, Gulag Archipelago, is dead. (Asia Times Online)
LETTERS: NCT, Sept. 2, 2008 Sep 3, 2008
joseph stalin, a despot just as cruel as, if not more than, hitler. so, nick, i welcome the citation of your sources which you have clearly declared. (North County Times)
Experience? Never mind Sep 2, 2008
In a famous example of ideological flexibility, the American Communist Party changed its mind completely about Adolph Hitler in 1939, when he signed a deal with Joseph Stalin. Previously, they hadn't cared for him much. (Daily Iowan, IA)
History preserved at Laton dairy Sep 2, 2008
There's a huge photo of the "Big Three" at the Yalta Conference in 1945 -- Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin -- at that time the three most powerful men in the world. There's a ton of other memorabilia that's interesting in its own right: An autograph from Hall-of-Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax, a bumper sticker proclaiming Clint Eastwood mayor of Carmel, an autographed photo of legendary jockey Willie Shoemaker. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
And None Dare Call It Treason Sep 2, 2008
Latvia, a tiny Baltic republic annexed by Joseph Stalin in June 1940 during his pact with Adolf Hitler, was set free at the end of the Cold War. Yet hundreds of thousands of Russians had been moved into Latvia by Stalin, and as Riga served as a base of the Baltic Sea fleet, many Russian naval officers retired there. (Human Events Online)
Pushing Russia Into the Cold Aug 30, 2008
But when did Bush demand that Israel get off the Golan Heights or withdraw from the birthplace of Jesus, which Israelis have occupied for 41 years, as he demands that Russia get out of the birthplace of Joseph Stalin, which Russia has occupied for two weeks. As Israel was provoked in 1967, so, too, was Russia provoked. (Human Events Online)
Punishing Russia could prove costly Aug 29, 2008
South Ossetia had never been a part of Georgia until Joseph Stalin separated the Ossetian homeland into two parts and attached the northern part to Russia, while giving the South to Stalin's native Georgia. Stalin's plan included a measure of autonomy for Abkhazia and the two Ossetias. (Asia Times Online)
Tsar Wars Versus Star Wars Aug 27, 2008
The question intentionally echoes, "So what did Stalin want?" -- which historian John Lewis Gaddis asked then answered in his award-winning book "The Cold War: A New History." Gaddis argued Joseph Stalin wanted "security for himself, his regime, his country and his ideology, in precisely that order.". These goals would also resonate in an "Old History" of Russia -- call it Tsar Wars, with Ivan the Terrible as the featured personality. (Townhall.com)
What do totalitarian states do? Cheat Aug 27, 2008
As stipulated by Joseph Stalin himself, a cabinet-level member of the Soviet hierarchy presided over the enterprise. This czar of Olympics competition was required to give his personal assurance to the Politburo that Soviet athletes would succeed. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
1997 DUHS graduate visits Georgia for health logistics Aug 27, 2008
Georgia is also the birthplace of Joseph Stalin, a man who rose to become the Soviet leader and U.S. ally during World War II. Squiers found his own observations here. "I enjoyed learning about the local customs and traditions. I also enjoyed the prairie lands and mountain views," said Squiers. (Dowagiac News, MI)
BOGDAN KIPLING: Western observers naive to overlook Putin's desire to restore Russian glory Aug 25, 2008
Of course, they should have had some inkling that former KGB officer Vladimir Putin was speeding on the Joseph Stalin Expressway when his thugs began killing independent journalists and littering their bodies on roads leading into Moscow. They might have recognized a harbinger or two when Putin's prosecutors started arresting Russian capitalists like Mikhail Khodorkovsky on trumped-up charges and shipping them to the Siberian gulags once reserved for freethinking literary geniuses like Alexander... (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Russia withdraws from some positions in Georgia Aug 23, 2008
"For all the euphoria, though, serious questions remained. The drawdown followed a pledge by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to recall his troops by Friday, but there were signs that Russia plans to station troops deep in Georgian territory. The Russians kept positions well outside the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and, to the west, Abkhazia, both of which are at the heart of the conflict.Because a few Russian military vehicles lingered on the outskirts of Gori, it wasn't clear that the... (Anchorage Daily News)
The Russians Are Coming...Or Going? Aug 23, 2008
"Where are we supposed to sell now? America is too far away. Russia is better for us than America." He says all this while standing under a towering statue of Soviet strongman Joseph Stalin, who was born in Gori, in a town square where most of the windows were recently blown out by Russian bombs. His views are still the exception in most of Georgia but probably music to the ears of Russian soldiers and tank commanders still clanking through the streets of the Georgian city. (Time.com)
Ability to love keeps couple going after nearly 78 years Aug 21, 2008
Joseph Stalin was collectivizing Russian farms, President Herbert Hoover was trying to prevent an impending depression, and traffic lights were installed in New York City for the first time. This was the year that Victor and Mary Erti met in Calabria, Italy, and, after just a month of dating, married and moved to Cambridge. (West Roxbury Transcript, MA)
Mao re-reconsidered Aug 21, 2008
Mao Zedong is no more complicated than Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, or Pol Pot. JOE LUKASZEVICZ Plymouth. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Russia Shows No Signs Of Troop Pullout Aug 20, 2008
A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin is reflected in bullet-ridden window in central Gori, Georgia, Aug. 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel). (CBS News -- 48 Hours)
Food aid sent in to suffering Georgian area Aug 20, 2008
Mikhail Metzel A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin is reflected in bullet-ridden window in central Gori, Georgia Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. A small column of Russian tanks and armored vehicles left the strategic Georgian city of Gori on Tuesday, the first sign of a Russian pullback of troops from Georgia after a cease-fire intended to end fighting that reignited Cold War tensions. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
On your mind Aug 20, 2008
The founders of the union hired a Georgian to help finance their effort since he was a notorious bank robber by the name of Joseph Stalin who ultimately rose to the leadership of the union. It would appear to me that its reincarnation is beginning and we do not have to be truly surprised do we. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Americans play Monopoly, Russians play chess Aug 19, 2008
Asia Times Online :: Central Asian News and current affairs, Russia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan. Page 1 of 2 Americans play Monopoly, Russians chess By Spengler. (Asia Times Online)
Russia-Georgia conflict: Why both sides have valid points Aug 19, 2008
Both groups claim that they were folded into the Soviet Republic of Georgia against their will by dictator Joseph Stalin (an ethnic Georgian), who also ordered Georgian settlers to flood into their territories. Abkhazia and Ossetia argue that their citizens were Soviet citizens, never Georgians, and therefore they had a right to declare independence as Soviet Union was collapsing. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
Cambridge native participates in Army training in pre-war Georgia Aug 19, 2008
Georgia is also the birthplace of Joseph Stalin, a man who rose to become the Soviet leader and U.S. ally during World War II. Kruklis found his own observations here. "Georgia has a beautiful landscape and rich culture," said Kruklis. (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)
From City Hall In Shawnee To The Cusp Of Conflict Aug 15, 2008
That's not the state in the southeastern part of the USA. It's the country between Turkey and Russia on the shores of the Black Sea, the place Joseph Stalin was born, a former part of the old Soviet Union that has established one of that area's leading democracies and was invaded by the Russian Army just about a week after the vice mayor of Shawnee/light colonel got on a plane and flew home. "We were there as a part of a training exercise that was called Immediate Response 08," Stephens said in... (County-Wide News, Inc., OK)
15,000 Russian troops in Georgia, U.S. administration officials say Aug 14, 2008
Journalists in Gori, the birthplace of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, said they had seen no Russian tanks. Reports of casualties on each side varied widely, and CNN could not confirm any of them. (CNN -- International)
Stalin's birthplace a town ravaged by war Aug 14, 2008
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)
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)
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)
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)
