Russia Communists: don't slight Stalin on his bday

The Russian Communist Party asked the nation Monday for a daylong moratorium on criticizing Soviet dictator Josef Stalin as they celebrate his 130th birthday.

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Re-Stalinization of Moscow subway sparks debate

A Moscow subway station is the newest focus of Russia's bitter dispute over the legacy of Josef Stalin, whose outsize shadow still haunts the nation more than 50 years after his death.

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Dictator Stalin voted third-greatest Russian

Television viewers have voted Soviet dictator Josef Stalin — who sent millions to their deaths in the Great Purge of the 1930s — Russia's third-greatest historical figure.

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NYCLU: Why was Stalin banner removed from school?

The New York Civil Liberties Union has demanded that city officials explain why they ordered a private art school to remove a banner displaying an image of Josef Stalin.

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Russian Historians to Study Stalin

Historians announced a project Wednesday to increase understanding of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's rule and help Russians come to terms with one of the grimmest chapters of their past.

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Ukraine Reburies 2,000 Stalinist Victims

Ukraine reburied nearly 2,000 victims of Stalinist repression, paying its respects to those gunned down by the Soviet secret police before World War II and dumped into a mass grave, organizers said Sunday.

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On Hating Dick Cheney

I heard a guy on the Imus show this morning and he said Hating Dick Cheney will not stop the terrorists from hating America any less...they don't hate us because of Dick Cheney..What they hate is America's freedom, and probably because over the years we have been perceived as the …

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JOSEPH Stalin sent millions to their deaths during his reign of terror, and his name was taboo for decades, but he is a step closer to rehabilitation after Vladimir Putin openly praised his achievements.

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It is implanting 6,000 Basij militia centers in elementary schools across Iran to promote the ideals of the Islamic Revolution, and it has created a new police unit to sweep the Internet for dissident voices.

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I won't even bother with a synopsis, just watch the video and judge for yourselves.

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Secret prison cells from the Stalin era have been discovered on a Tbilisi construction site for a $90-million luxury hotel for the international Kempinski Hotel chain

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Colonialism and developing countries

By Mobeen Chughtai

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Jeremiah Wright. William Ayers. Van Jones. Where does the rogues' gallery of Barack Obama's radical friends end? These people are not liberals.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Supporters of Josef Stalin denounced "lies" about the Soviet dictator at a Moscow court on Thursday as his grandson sought to clear Stalin's name after an opposition newspaper accused him of killing Soviet citizens.

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The American empire may be in decline, but I'm beginning to think we're still at the forefront of technological innovation in some areas.

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[Glenn Beck's] 9/12 Project came off exactly as expected. By that, I mean nothing happened, but it was really loud, obnoxious and ignorant in the service of nothing.

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This article is a "must read." Those who left Russia found a different set of values in America: freedom of religion, speech, individual pursuits, the right to private property and free enterprise.

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'Putin: "Without a doubt there are full grounds to condemn the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of August 1939. But after all, a year earlier France and England signed a well-known agreement with Hitler in Munich..."

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In Iran, the new system's key element is partnership between Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The current trials' theme is that the opposition planned a coup, precisely what the rulers are really doing.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Josef Stalin was in the dock on Monday when a Russian court held a preliminary hearing in a libel case brought by his grandson over a newspaper story which said the tyrant had ordered the killings of Soviet citizens.

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Vladimir Putin plans to be in Poland on Sept. 1 to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II, a visit that could go a long way toward reducing renewed tensions over Europe's troubled history.

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.."The women's faces gaze down from the walls, young and old, dark and fair, blue-eyed and brown-eyed. Some look sad, some stoical, some bitter, and some simply confused.

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The late Huw Wheldon of the BBC once described to me a series, made in the early days of radio, about celebrated exiles who had lived in London.

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How can these bloodthirsty tyrants be artists and voracious book readers?

The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape. Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2 This is a story about a poet, artist and erudite despots. Knowledge sometimes exposes an evil genius.

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Ukrainian nationalists continue to perpetuate "Holodomor" myth

March 13 -- The ruling bourgeoisie of the former Soviet republics, threatened by the world capitalist crisis and the rising tide of political consciousness amongst the working classes, are unloading the usual arsenal of lies, disinformation and propaganda to slander the legacy of …

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I won't link to WorldNetDaily unless I have to, and unless I'm typing with lead-lined gloves.

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Remembering J.V. Stalin

March 5 -- 56 years ago, on this very day, the Great Leader and Father of the Soviet Peoples, the inspiration of the international proletariat and guiding light of the communist movement spanning all over the globe, passed away due to a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 74.

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State Governors: "A Call To Arms"

The Obama ruse is now in full swing with his pennies from heaven being waved in front of all state governors in return for selling their souls to socialism and committing to programs that in the long run will offer nothing but massive debt to state budgets.

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The critics of Vladimir Putin – Russia's Prime Minister and former KGB agent – have a strange habit of being found shot or stabbed or poisoned. This week, I met a man who is half-expecting an assassin's bullet – here, in London. He is not alone.

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Book Review#4: What Stalin Knew-The Enigma Of Barbarossa

I recently read this book, since I was intrested in the history and backstory of Operation Barbarossa and how Stalin responded(or, more accurately, didn't until it was too late) and what he actually knew.

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He was a Cambridge graduate turned 1930s adventurer. She was a beautiful nurse in Stalin's Soviet Union. They fell in love - but then were parted for five years by the brutal regime. What Brian Grover did to win back his love would defy belief if it were a Hollywood epic.

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