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Face of death: Auction of Stalin’s death mask
Published: 23 January, 2012, 19:20
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin has been hated, feared, and even worshiped; now he’s going under the hammer. His bronze death mask and hands are due to be auctioned in the UK this week.
A genius like Stalin is born once in a thouthand years. He built one of the greatest country ever to exist on earth.The time will come when people of Russia and Eastern Europe will curse the modern russians and ukrainians for allowing Soviet Union to be destroyed.
Stalin murdered millions, starved millions in the Ukrainian Holodmor, displaced millions, incarcerated millions in GULAGS and terrorized hundreds of millions with his "cult of personality". His dictatorship deserves only condemnation - just like we condemn the Nazi regime's terrors. PM Putin has recognized such terrible monsters such as Stalin and his henchmen as being a horrific stain on Russian history. Terrible that the last crimes that Stalin perpetrated was the "Doctors Plot" murders of many Jewish doctors and others.
JohnN, OK, you have proved that you have access to wikipedia...
Stalin and we are close
Believe you me.
That's kind of disturbing.
This is so sick and sad on the same time =( Over 40 millions died thanks to this b*stard and Lenin as well ,and now he is on Auction! Nazis have admited their crimes, tho Russian goverment still do not admit all crimes of Stalin and Lenin and USSR thugs!
THis is sad, throw it to the junk yard!
Dear Johann Scuhamcher and JohnN, please stopquoting uninformed books by Solzhenitsyn.
Real data are available now from archives:
in 32 years (1922-1954) of Lenin+Stalin rule 680000 people have been sentenced to death (including criminals) and 4000 000 imprisoned.There was a famine because of the shortage of food in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstanin 1931– 1933 when in total 7 millions died of starvation (in Ukrainian part 3million died).This is approximately the same amount of people that died ofstarvation in USA during the great depression, when it was plenty of food incontrast to USSR.
Dear Johann Scuhamcher and JohnN, please stop quoting uninformed books by Solzhenitsyn.
Real data are available now from archives:
in 32 years (1922-1954) of Lenin+Stalin rule 680 000 people have been sentenced to death (including criminals) and 4000 000 imprisoned. There was a famine because of the shortage of food in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan in 1931– 1933 when in total 7 millions died of starvation (in Ukrainian part 3 million died).This is approximately the same amount of people that died of starvation in USA during the great depression, when it was plenty of food in contrast to USSR.
Johann Scuhamcher..........That's a lie... The new German Nazis haven't admitted their crimes , they just cry about Stalin & the old Soviet Union like you..The new German Nazis hide behind NATO and promote the Cold War so they can exploit Eastern Europe just like Hitler had planned & failed to do before.
. Next, they need to auction off Lenin's corpse. .
"Soviet leader Joseph Stalin has been hated, feared, and even worshiped".
The order of words is wrong. The proper one should be (we are talking about the Soviet people):
"Soviet leader Joseph Stalin has been worshiped, feared, and even hated".