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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Do you not get that the notion that Stalin brought good things to Russians and so should be considered with nostalgia is a myth? Memorial produced a video about exactly that point and also more generally about the myths that underpin public opinion regarding Stalin.

https://www.levada.ru/2019/06/10/funktsii-mifa-o-chem-govorit-nam-dinamika-massovogo-otnosheniya-k-stalinu/[/quote]

I am well aware of the wonderful work Memorial is doing.  They are very well known.

You are just going to have to live with the fact that different people can look at the same set of facts and draw different conclusions.  And that different people can experience life differently.   You seem put out that these damn Russians just won't feel and think the way you want them to feel and think. [/quote]

Huh? I’m simply pointing out facts — if you are to believe Levada, which I do.

Also, the Memorial people risk their lives to change Russian public opinion about Stalin, so this is hardly something just foreigners want to impose.

Lastly, my grandparents escaped Stalin’s repressions to come to the USA, so I have a personal stake in this as well. [/quote]

Fighting the windmills on an anonymous website is a strange way to plant a personal stake - just what is it exactly you are trying to accomplish.

You are but one person.   My orphaned mother, aunts and uncles were saved from the life on the street during that time so should I have a personal stake in this? Nope.  I am simply open to the possibility that it's a huge country with lots of people who all have their own stories and human experiences, and these stories are what they are, and not what you'd like them to be.   Life is not written in black and white. [/quote]

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