Stalin at D-Day
Curiously, the National D-Day Museum in Bedford, VA has added a bust of Joseph Stalin this last week to pay tribute to Stalin’s contribution to winning the war against Nazi Germany according to John Fund in the Wall Street Journal;
The memorial’s board chose the 66th anniversary of the Normandy invasion to add a bust of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to accompany the busts already in place of FDR, Harry Truman and Winston Churchill.
William McIntosh, president of the D-Day Memorial Foundation, hasn’t been returning calls from reporters, but previously said his group merely wanted to note Stalin’s role in winning the war.
Yeah, how about highlighting Stalin’s role in starting the war. The world recognizes September 2, 1939 as the date the global war began. The Molotov-Ribbentopp Pact was signed in Moscow on August 23, 1939 enabling Hitler to invade Poland on Sept. 2 without a thought as to the disposition of Soviet armies. Of course, June 22, 1942, Hitler broke the pact and marched across Soviet territory unopposed for weeks causing over 4 million casualties for the Soviets and 3 million prisoners.
Yeah, Stalin’s’ contributions to the war against Nazis was immeasurable and certainly worthy of a bust at the museum in Virginia since without his contributions, there might have been no war.
Category: Historical
The Bedford boys are rolling over in their graves.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
JesusHTapdancinChrist, what’s next? A bust of Ho Chi Minh at the Vietnam Memorial?
Spray-painting vandels, meet your next target. . . .
We won the war DESPITE Iosif Vissarionovich not thanks to him.
Without Stalin’s human wave tactics who knows what would have happened. I always said the only reason we weren’t fighting Stalin was because Hitler screwed him before he got a chance to screw Hitler.
Now, now. In all fairness, 75-80 percent of all German casualties were on the Eastern front.
That and if the Soviets weren’t coming from the East, who is to say that the Germans wouldn’t have fought us harder.
Of course had we not had the bomb, we probably would have been fighting Stalin next.
That and Suvorov has an interesting theory on how Stalin was the true evil genius of World War II.
Stalin killed more Russians than Hitler did.
Just saying.
Fred I agree with you. I would easily say that Stalin is perhaps the most evil person who ever walked the earth.
I remember a class I took in college and we had a discussion about wether Truman was justified in dropping two bombs on Japan. Honestly I think that was just as much to end the war as it was to scare the crap out of Stalin. Many of the students had the idea that all we needed to do was drop one bomb, but when the question of Stalin came up they started changing their minds. One bomb would have made him nervous, but two bombs not only proved that we could make or had more and were willing to use them. The only thing that people like Stalin understand is power.
I don’t know if it is fortunate or unfortunate that people have forgot that kind of evil. I have a couple friends of mine who are “communists” they always hate it when I bring up good ol Uncle Joe.
Claymore
Shaka and the walls fell…..
Timber, his arms wide…..
OT Claymore just so you know my family nerd level. My wife and I both know what you guys are talking about.
jason
I believe Teh Geekness is strong here….
“Stalin’s’ contributions to the war against Nazis was immeasurable and certainly worthy of a bust at the museum in Virginia since WITHOUT his contributions, there might have been no war.”
Learn to read, Carl.