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.
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:
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