> 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 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
