Stalin History Being Rewritten

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A government-backed drive is promoting textbooks which say his reign of terror was entirely rational and necessary to make Russia great

It's a disservice to the people who didn't survive the Stalin years and the ones who barely survived.

[ewomack]

Ew. That was pretty gross...

[robjones]

Orwell was known for making political commentary by way of using his books to illustrate where the underlying principles & practices would lead. Hard to read Animal Farm or 1984 and not see this sorta thing coming. He rather obviously wasnt a huge fan of their method. BUT... you can't watch our own history evolve without noticing (hopefully) that revisionist history is a traditional tactic of *politicians*... not just Communists.

Give it another generation or two and kids somewhere may be studying from textbooks praising Hitler and Stalin for being ahead of their time with their earth-friendly strategies to aid in population control.

[iowadawg]

Odd, but the older generation in Russia remember the Stalin years as the best years of Russia and would like those times to come back.

Yes, I always thought that history books, etc....treat Stalin less unfairly than Hitler.
Though Stalin, and Mao, killed more people than Hitler did.

[ewomack]

Yeah... the 20th century was a good one for mass death... for sure...