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Dec 10, 2008, 12:24 GMT
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One of the greatest murderers of all time. Sure, it was great to fight off the invaders, but at what cost? Millions of comrades killed under the cruel yoke of Communist rule.
Being strong by any means is inhumane. Do you know what real strength is? It is perseverance under the harshest of circumstances. It was Solzhenitsyn.
Nothing good came of Solzhenitsyn: he was a traitor and chief defamer of the USSR in the Soviet times, and a futile idealist in the post-Soviet times, whose ideas 'to rebuild Russia' were very abstract and no more than impracticable hot air. He has always been a puzzlehead who confused his personal grudge against the Soviet Power (e.g. he was reprimanded for traitorous conduct in battle during World War II) with the real needs and expectations of people. The West extols Solzhenitsyn, bcs he contributed to the destruction of the Great Socialist Country and indirectly caused the loss of life of tens of millions who abjectly perished after the collapse of the USSR.
As for Stalin, it is the worst anti-Communist myth that the West has ever concocted. Of course, it is not by chance that the person, who brought to life the socialist dream in all its grandeur became a bogle for the Western philistines. In fact, the deaths in Stalin's USSR were by no means more than, say, in the USA during the respective time - and his task was immensely hard. He had to build and consolidate the first socialist state amid the hostile imperialist and fascist environment. During the period of the so called 'repressions' (1921-1954) the total of those executed was 642,980 people, those who served terms in prison - 2,369,220, and those exiled - 765,180 people. It is not so few, if you go by ideal conditions, but the conditions were far from ideal: the existence of socialism and the country itself was at stake.
Go tell your myth to those whose loved ones were treated like dung and executed under that tyrant.
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