Who regrets the rise of Stalin?

[DACT]

I do.

edit: this thread is in response to the who regrets the fall of the Soviet Union. Just to put my question in context.

[ACK]

1. Me too.

Geez.

[bryant69]

2. I also rue the rise of the black plague

The only people who don't dislike Stalin are historically illiterate. Or, perhaps, monsters of a similar stripe.

Bryant
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[Sir_Shrek]

3. Ummm......

....yeah, I do. Though I had nothing to do with it, so I don't regret it in the sense that I could've done something about it and didn't. But yeah, it would've been nice if that bastard had never come to power.

[Loonman]

4. USSR-style "socialism" was abhorrent

I find it the apex of ignorance to praise such a system.

[rman]

15. calling it "socialism" is a mistake

Stalin was a dictator. The fact that he came to power during communism does not mean that communism = dictatorship.
Likewise the fact that Hitler came to power during a democracy (as did Bush) does not mean that democracy = fascism.

[bleedingheart]

5. Who would not?

Many members of my family were murdered by that beast. Why Lenin didn't have him assassinated is beyond me. Lenin knew he was demented and feared that he would muscle his way into control but yet didn't do anything...and he is the one who could have ordered the hit....once Lenin was dead all bets were off and the crazy paranoid freak was set loose on the soviet society.

[MrBenchley]

6. I'm sorry

I ever voted for him...no wait, that was Ed Koch I'm sorry I voted for....

[Township75]

7. Where is the "who regrets the fall of the Soviet Union." Thread at?

I would like to read that.

Thanks

[DACT]

8. Also on the front page on GD. Here's a link.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=886682&mesg_id=886682

[Township75]

9. Thanks, don't know how I missed it...

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[Good Fences]

10. Yes.

Walter Duranty, star reporter for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner, stooge of Joseph Stalin: was he too credulous, poor chap? David P. Kirkpatrick, writing in the Times, says yes indeed.

Pulitzer Board Won't Void '32 Award to Times Writer

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK (NYT) 689 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 13 , Column 5
DISPLAYING FIRST 50 OF 689 WORDS - The board that administers the Pulitzer Prizes said yesterday that it had decided not to revoke the prize awarded in 1932 to Walter Duranty of The New York Times for a series of articles about the Soviet Union that were later discredited as too credulous of Soviet ... Mr. Duranty's...

[htuttle]

11. I wasn't even born yet

I had nothing to do with it, I swear!

[G_j]

12. who regrets one more inane thread clogging up GD?

why didn't you post this on the thread you refer to? :shrug:

[IrateCitizen]

13. I think that's a rules violation of GD, is it not?

nt

[G_j]

14. sort of seems like a continuation

of a dispute from another thread.

[IrateCitizen]

16. Exactly. And therein lies the problem

From the rules for starting a thread in GD:

5. You may not start a new discussion thread in order to continue a current or recent flame war from another thread. The moderators have the authority to lock threads in order to contain flaming on a particular topic to only one thread at a time.

Now, whether this is "flaming" or not is a subjective matter. But it's pretty clear that it's inanity at its finest, as you pointed out above. ;-)

[G_j]

19. lounge material?

since it's hard to imagine it's a sincere or serious question. Though it's certainly not the first time we've seen threads which are a twist on another, some obviously attempting to make a point about the thread they are 'imitating', others asking a legitimate question with similar wording.

[Name removed]

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[AntiCoup2K4]

18. I regret the rise of dictators, period.

Hitler, Stalin, Bush Jr.... any of em.

[Moderator]

20. locked

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Thanks

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