Life under Stalin (the return of the cult?)

[Uladzimir Katkouski]

I can't recommend anything that has not been mentioned
yet, but I would like to share some oservations about
Stalin's figure. It seems, some Russians are using the
60th annivessary of victory over Nazi Germany to
attempt to rehabilitate Stalin's good name. My friend,
who recently was in Moscow and visited many bookshops,
said that each bookstore had at least several new
books (2004, 2005) about Stalin, mostly eulogies or
biographies that portray him in a positive light.

This trend unfortunately has also reached my native
Belarus. Several days ago I found in a popular online
bookstore a recently published book, which is an open
glorification of the great Soviet Fuhrer Jospeh
Stalin. It was published a few months ago by a
Belarusan publishing house "FUAinform", and it is
currently sold all over Belarus. The book is a
collection of essays of Soviet historians and
propagandists (including several Belarusan ones)
lionizing and glorifying Stalin's achievements,
portraying the bloody Soviet dictator who killed
millions of people as a very kind person, a wise
politician, a genius military leader, a champion of
social equality and fairness, a talented poet and a
good Christian family man who was tortured by his
jealous wife. And the title of this new 700-page book
is... Bow to Stalin, Europe!

Further information about the book and discussions:
* http://rodina.by/book/info/go/14011.html?partner=422
(Russian)
* http://www.livejournal.com/users/rydel23/374339.html
(Russian, English, Belarusan)

Regards,
Uladzimir Katkouski




		
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