Stalin killed far more innocents than Hitler, but Stalin gets far better treatment from Western historians and commentators. Why? From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
It is interesting that you can travel to Russia – the old Soviet Union – and take a tour of Stalin’s dacha, complete with pictures of him on the wall and even dummies of him dressed like him sitting at the desk where he no doubt signed the execution orders of countless victims. You can walk past the embalmed corpse of Lenin – founder of the most murderous regime in modern times – and pay your respects. The Soviet star – symbol of that regime – is still a common sight in Russia. It is still displayed on Russian military aircraft, in fact.
But you’ll be arrested – in Germany – if you attend a model RC airplane show with your Messerschmitt BF109 displaying the period-correct symbol of national socialist Germany on its vertical stabilizer. The former headquarters of Reichsmarschall Goering’s Luftwaffe still exists, but there is no indication it ever was the headquarters of Reichsmarschall Goering’s Luftwaffe. The eagles holding swastikas on the plinths in front are long gone – and there are no pictures of Der Dicke – the Fat One – hanging on the wall, let alone effigies of him dressed in one of his gaudy uniforms.
It is absolutely verboten, of course, to display a portrait of you-know-who and it is inconceivable to even imagine that – had his body survived the war – you’d be able to walk past it encased in glass and guarded by government soldiers.
This is interesting when you ask why this is.
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Because he’s a fellow traveler comrade?
Love the meme of hundreds of movies about Hitler but none about Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Mau Mau, why is that?
Because the Arabs run Hollywood! (H/T-AJ)
Robert “napalm in the morning” is underrated as Comrade Stalin in the 90s movie.
The original Uncle Joe loved watching cowboy westerns.
I give him credit for being the most badazz peasant ever who refused to lose.
He recovered from the early despondency of Barbarossa and put in the right generals who weren’t purged in the 1930s.
Hitler thought the “whole rotten edifice” would collapse due to the purging.
The how many divisions does the pope have is a classic.
No victory without all that Lend-Lease help a comrade out from the UK and America.
Just as Bolshevik Banksters funded the 1917 revolution while getting Lenin safe passage across Germany.
Everyone has a shekel price.
Humanzee Manboons just couldn’t handle a Stalin in this great big chicken just waiting to get plucked femme society.
Way too masculine.
This just in from Atrophy:
Violent By Nature
P.S. Warbirds in America have the correct tail identifier of the Hakenkreuz (crooked cross) from a Focke Wulf 190 to a Junkers 52 & 88 and everything in between.
The outdoor Ju-88 at Dayton has it and there is a FW-190D Long Nose in the hangar, went there as a lil’ shaver and loved it. (H/T-Pappy)
The Brits still have a BF-110 night fighter (!), JU-87 Stuka, HE-111 Heinkel in an RAF Museum.
They took out the extremely rare Black 6 BF-109 with tropical dust filter and Afrika Korps paint scheme to fly in an airshow and proceeded it crash it due to the narrow undercarriage.
Ground loop was usually the problem for green pilots.
When Daimler was contacted about engine components they said we can’t make those parts anymore, now it is on static display after restoration.
RAF Herndon is certainly bucket list.
Not very many early Yaks, Migs, or “cement bomber” Sturmoviks left for Ivan.