In Russia, several history teachers got into trouble for presenting to students “a negative image of Stalin.” They are now angrily denounced in the press and hounded at work for mentioning in class that Stalin’s regime incarcerated many people. The teachers are accused of having been bribed by the EU to conduct this anti-Stalin propaganda.
5 responses to “If Only Solzhenitsyn Could See This”
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I guess I’ll cross Russia off the list of places to apply to work. There was a history opening a while ago at Smolny College in St. Petersburg and I decided not to apply.
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Yes, they will not look kindly on the kind of research you do.
What a crying shame that it had to come to this.
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Sadly, I’m not surprised at this. Not long ago I read an article (I cannot remember where, I’m afraid) that discussed the rehabilitation of Stalin’s image under Putin; among the subjects mentioned was the disappearance of Stalin’s purges from history textbooks.
What angers me even more is seeing the Putin-fluffers in the West gleefully embrace him and not even bother to call out the pro-Stalin attitude he has. But then again, I think that most of them probably admire Stalin anyway.
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Yes, Stalin is now officially – and hilariously – referred to as “an effective manager” in Russian textbooks. Stalin himself would have flipped out had he known he’d be seen as a manager. 🙂
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He didn’t have to resort to any of the current managerial buzz-words when something needed to be done:
You have let down our country and our Red Army. You have the nerve not to manufacture IL-2s until now. Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats. Shenkman produces one IL-2 a day and Tretyakov builds one or two MiG-3s daily. It is a mockery of our country and the Red Army. I ask you not to try the government’s patience, and demand that you manufacture more ILs. This is my final warning.
Telegram to government aviation production plant superintendents by Stalin in the autumn of 1941, warning them to produce more Il-2 Sturmovik ground attack aircraft for national defense
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