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This is a comforting post I saw from someone who is Russian and lives in Russia: (I omitted names, because I do not know the internet etiquette and/or rules of posting someone's words from another forum) do not concern much that Stalin is the third because:
Firstly, it was possible to vote several times from one phone every day;
Secondly, people participated in voting were basically elders because the program went late and those who worked could not look it;
Thirdly,communists with peculiar to them fanatism simply voted many times;
Fourthly, the youth did not participate in it because they had too little interest in it;
Therefore it hardly could be considered as a public oppinion. Thank you, Alice, for posting that. It rings true. -- John
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I think it has much to do with how history and which history is taught. Is there a "general knowledge" about how brutal Stalin's control over the USSR was?
When I was in the tenth grade it was about ten years after the Berlin Wall fell. I remember speaking with a girl who had just graduated college with a 4.0 GPA who did not know what the Soviet Union was. I explained it as I could to her at the time, but it didn't click with her. I bet that if I mentioned Hitler or Nazi to her she wouldn't have wondered what I was talking about.
Some people are not concerned with history and find it such a task to study or memorize for a history test that they don't care to retain anything.
What concerns me about this poll is the continuing sway the Communists have in Russia. It begs the question of whether history will ever repeat itself.
Terry Terry, I agree that the knowlegde of history is optional and often shockingly limited in this country. On the other hand, I'm not too worried about full-fledged communism reasserting itself. Everyone wants to make money, especially the crooks running the government; and no one wants to go back to pure socialism because it just doesn't work that well. I'm more concerned about the neo-imperialism of shutting down the pipeline of natural gas through Ukraine or invading little Georgia. -- John
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On the other hand, I'm not too worried about full-fledged communism reasserting itself. Everyone wants to make money, especially the crooks running the government; and no one wants to go back to pure socialism because it just doesn't work that well.
I'm more concerned about the neo-imperialism of shutting down the pipeline of natural gas through Ukraine or invading little Georgia. I have to agree with you. The system cannot work as it existed. But what I worry about is if the aspirations of the ideology are given fuel to oppressive politics or tyranny in any other form. Terry
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Those hopes, formerly in New Soviet Man, were used to justify cruelity and oppression against the wreckers, the kulaks, and any other groups that got in the way of reaching the peace that was propehsied.
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