lorddreadnought | Stalin was canonised in Putin's Russia.

An orthodox church in Russia has sparked controversy by putting up an icon showing the figure of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, with some believers and Communists viewing this as simple justice and others as an indication that many Russians have lost any sense of proportion or truth. Russian church has glorified men who had a great deal of blood on their hands, like St Constantine or St Vladimir. But to glorify a man who martyred so many legions of Orthodox Christians would just be demonic.

President Vladimir Putin has also taken on the task of refreshing Russian history with a new perspective. He is on record lamenting the collapse of the Soviet Union as "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century". As he has said: "It was worse, apparently, than World War I, worse than World War II". Accordingly, this paradigm has been agreed and the policy of Russia in the past 16 years, whose main goal is to recreate the collapsed empire in 1991. Russian aggression against the Republic of Georgia was received by the international community in a spirit of compromise, and world powers agreed to the annexation of 20% of Georgian territories spurred Russia to annex the peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine and the creation of zones of conflict in the eastern regions of the country. Only the desperate resistance of Ukrainian people delayed the realisation of that plan.

Last year, the president informed a group of history teachers that Russia has nothing to be ashamed of Stalin and that it was their job to present a more balanced picture of Joseph Stalin, described in one approved volume as "the most successful Soviet leader ever." I must recall that Stalin was inventor of holodomor with at least 7 million white people dead in Ukraine in 1932-1933. Millions of white people also starved to death in other Soviet made-man famines in 1922 and in 1947. The death toll of starved to death in USSR is more than 15 million people. Yes, Stalin was very successful in exterminating white European people on the territory of USSR.

Russian main holiday and historical event is "victory" over Germany, Italy and Japan in second World War and "liberation" of Europe. In modern Russian propaganda Stalin is the main creator of that "victory". After that "victory" millions of European people were raped and killed by Red russian liberators. But Putin has never apologised for communist atrocities against Germany and other European countries, all he preached was a holocaust.

Putin officially honours Stalin as the greatest leader, while Russia's Orthodox Church has been made ikons with Joseph Stalin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin:

“Regrettably, in some European countries the Nazi virus 'vaccine' created at the Nuremberg Tribunal is losing its effect. The situation in Ukraine, where nationalists and other radical groups provoked an anti-constitutional coup d’état in February,causes particular concern in this respect.”

“First and foremost it is worth acknowledging that the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.”

“The Stalin regime never aimed to exterminate entire ethnic groups.”

“The victory in May 1945 is a symbol of unity of the multinational people of Russia.”

"Russia will never forget Holocaust".

“Those that preach the ideas of nationalism, xenophobia and religious intolerance must be set rigid barriers”.

“Those who say Russia – for Russians are either dishonest people or provocateurs”.

“Soviet defeat of the Nazis should be a warning to those seeking to revive fascism today.”

“The downfall of fascism should become a lesson and a warning that retaliation is inevitable.”

Death to Communism. WPWW 14/88!