[Foundation-l] New project proposal: Soviet Repressions Memorial

Thu Dec 25 22:55:29 UTC 2008

> On Thursday 25 December 2008 03:30, Ray Saintonge wrote:
>> One doesn't become truly educated when someone is playing games with
>> one's emotions.  That just breeds true believers and more victims of
>> patriotic folly.  Stalin died in 1953, and while there might have been
>> some justification for such a project while he was still in power, now
>> it is nothing more than picking at old scabs to see if they will bleed.
>
> Funny, that's exactly what Khrushchev used to justify repressing those
> who
> tried to write about the Stalinist repressions.
>
>> What Stalin did cannot be undone, but understanding the importance of
>> those events in world history is not helped by dwelling on the minutiae
>> of individual tragedy.
>
> The importance of those events extends way beyond geopolitics; their
> importance IS the many millions of individual tragedies.
> --
> Kurt Weber

Yes, it's the MASS in mass murder.

Fred