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Putin = Stalin
A headline in the Telegraph today states;
'Putin’s transformation into the new Stalin is now complete'
After the sham election, a pretty fair assessment, would you not say?
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OH and I talked this postulation over a bit today. Apart from forays in WW2 we felt that Stalin had at least kept his pograms inside Russia; but then, of course he regards Ukraine and other countries as part of Russia - so that wouldn't hold water.
Stalin didn't threaten to attack the whole of the West; but he didn't have nuclear weapons, or he probably would have done. It's made for some interesting chats, so thanks, Khandro.
On the whole, we decided that it was 'a pretty fair assessment'. The world is now in a very dangerous place - looking back we can see so many parallels and America is trying to go back to 'Splendid Isolation' as well. :(
A "tankie" is an apologist for the USSR... it comes from the period of the hungarian uprising after which most western leftists denounced the USSR permanently (the uprising was crushed with tanks... so USSR's defenders were called tankies)
they are an extremely small minority of people who are totally irrelevant... you can find them on twitter or reddit posting bitter memes but they have pretty much no influence whatsoever
Joseph Stalin Starved Millions in the Ukrainian Famine. Cruel efforts under him to impose collectivism and tamp down Ukrainian nationalism left an estimated 3.9 million dead, so Putin has some way to go, but he's working on it.
This war has killed or injured about 500,000 Ukrainian & Russian troops & more than 10,000 Ukrainian civilians have died (at least).
I'm reading a review of a new book by Yaroslav Tromfimov, himself a Ukrainian who writes for the Wall Street Journal who was present at Bucha when Zelensky arrived to witness the atrocities. He suggests that Z. had then a naive belief that if Putin could 'peer down at the bodies, the war would stop'... 'inevitably all that came from Moscow was denials & claims that the atrocities were staged'.
Negotiations carried on for a couple of weeks, but in effect they died at Bucha, "No Ukrainian government could agree that any of its citizens should be abandoned to live under such a regime."
