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December 28, 2008

Uncle Joe Gets Rehabilitated

Whether Obama is another Jimmy Carter or something even worse, he may well be remembered as a great leader, if this is any indication:

A nationwide Russian poll seeking to name the greatest-ever countryman is set to end Sunday, and former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin is in the running for No. 1…
The broader campaign to revive Stalin as a "hero" appears to be coming from the highest levels of government.
A new manual has been given to history teachers in Russia's schools, which says Stalin acted "entirely rationally," the BBC reported.

Equally rationally, the Communist Party wants Stalin canonized by the Orthodox Church if he wins the poll. The church was repressed under Stalin's nightmarish regime, which killed millions and subjected millions more to slave labor and prison camps.

If state-controlled education and a compliant media can whitewash Joseph Stalin, a genocidal dictator, it should be a cinch to spin Obama as something other than an unqualified cipher riding a tidal wave of empty hype.

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Stalin's heroic handiwork.

On tips from Eoin and conservativeteen.

Posted by Van Helsing at December 28, 2008 10:49 AM

Comments

When despots (liberals) write history no amount of murders, no amount of opression, no amount of subjugation is too much. The end justifies the means. Look at our own recent history. Who writes of Ried, Dodd or Barney Frank and their ownership of the mortgage and housing debacle? Why are they not in chains? They should be hanging from street lights on Pennsylvania Ave. Their very actions precipitated the current recession and now they are in charge of the recovery? The United States needs an enema.

Posted by: John at December 28, 2008 12:04 PM

Revisionist history is requirement #1 for the Progressive agenda to 'advance'. As they say, "the past is not what it was". Now more than ever...

"It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged" -- G. K. Chesterton, 1921

Posted by: lvb-rocks at December 28, 2008 1:25 PM

Joe Stalin was a bigger mass murderer then ADOLPH HITLER

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 28, 2008 7:18 PM

Wow, the thought of 'Saint Joseph (Stalin)', I bet that will send a real thrill up Chris 'Tweety' Matthews' leg.

Posted by: Viking04 at December 28, 2008 9:23 PM

Of the 94,000,000 souls executed by communism in the 20th century. The University of Hawaii indicated that 39,000,000 occurred in Soviet concentration camps. The specific deaths attributable to "Uncle Joe" differ from 20,000,000 on the low side, to 50,000,000 on the highs side. Without dispute, "Uncle Joe" was indeed, the leasing cause of increase of the population of Golgotha. These numbers do indeed make Adolf Hitler a piker, at 5,291,000 souls.

Of more modern concern, I recall reading elsewhere in Moonbattery, or Right Wing News, of one William Ayers and his ilk: Discussing the "elimination" of some 25,000,000 "non-re-educables" in strategically located "re-education camps" during their proposed collectivization of the USA.

Note that in all cases, through history, that the leading cause of death is governments. And, the least probability of democide occurred with the democratic forms of government; The highest probabilities occurring with communistic and monarchical forms of government. "Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power, corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always, bad men." Letter: From Lord Acton to Bishop Mandell Creighton - 1887.

I also like this 16 word quote from this ecclesiastical historian:

"No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good." Mandell Creighton, former Bishop of London

It explains how those like Vladimir Lenin, Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, Kim-Il-Sung, Hugo Chavez, et al are set up into their situations: After which inducing proof of Lord Acton's postulate.

Posted by: batman at December 28, 2008 10:10 PM

The Competence of Carter combined with the Moral Fiber of Clinton.

That's going to be the Obama Administration.

May Stalin burn in Hell forever, that pedophilic, anti-semitic, genocidal, ethnic-cleansing, mass-murdering megolomaniac.

Saint my Arse...

Posted by: Evil Monk at December 28, 2008 11:23 PM

Evil Monk, no doubt he IS burning for eternity.
Under his hideous regime, millions of Christians were executed for refusing to become atheists, and that's not counting those who survived imprisonment and torture for the same reason. As Christ once said, "If any man puts a stumbling block before any of these little ones that follow Me, it would be better if a millstone were tied around his neck and he were drowned at sea."

Posted by: Adam at December 29, 2008 5:23 AM

These numbers do indeed make Adolf Hitler a piker.

And yet if you wear a hammer and sickle, or a Che T-shirt, it marks you as a "progressive."

Posted by: V the K at December 29, 2008 6:08 AM

What's the saying? Oh, that's right...

People get the government they deserve.

Russia, Germany, France, increasingly Britain, increasingly the U.S., have populations that could be compared to cattle.

Posted by: Eoin at December 29, 2008 6:38 AM

I read where FDR referd to stalin as UNCLE JOE and left-wing actor RED ED ASNER is a big time admier of him

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 29, 2008 12:51 PM

All we ever hear about in the West is how awful Hitler was. Yes, Hitler was terrible and the lessons of WWII (and what led up to it) should never be forgotten. But the discussion of the Communist mass murders barely even get a mention.

No scores of Hollywood produced films, no masses of documentaries on the History channel, no giant charity corporations in the victim's names, etc.

You get the idea.

Ever wonder why that is?

Posted by: Mike at December 29, 2008 8:21 PM