Word: stalinism
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...World War II, Joseph Stalin's personal movie library expanded. His army liberated Joseph Goebbels' film collection. On movie nights in the old winter garden of the Great Kremlin Palace, Stalin and his gang (a revolving cast of Bolshevik thugs and survivors) would watch Charlie Chaplin or Spencer Tracy or Clark Gable. Stalin particularly liked gangster and cowboy films; sexual content offended...
...note that any sexist or racist comment is provocative,” Wolf said. “I mean, Stalin was provocative...
Judging from the content of popular culture, one can safely say that if Harry had chosen to sport the hammer and the sickle of Stalin, Beria and Dzerzhinsky instead of the swastika of Hitler, Göring and Goebbels he would have attracted little notice. The widespread popularity of Che, Castro, Lenin, CCCP or Marx t-shirts, and the frequent usage of the Soviet five-pointed star or the crossed hammer and sickle, are only the most obvious examples of the curious double standard between our views on Nazism and Soviet Communism. Harvard’s own beloved...
...depraved, bloodthirsty and merciless as anything propagated by Hitler’s Third Reich. The lack of outrage over the continued usage of Soviet images is disturbing, because it suggests a shocking lack of historical perspective. While few are prepared to say it, the Russia that Lenin and Stalin forged in the blood of millions of nameless peasants was as evil a system as humans have yet constructed: it would behoove us to remember what happened in Soviet Russia as assuredly as we remember what happened in Nazi Germany...
...course, it’s not always a space issue. One particularly zealous patron once presented the bar’s management with a life-sized poster of Josef Stalin...