by Eric DonderoThe National D-Day Memorial Foundation Park is located in Bedford County, Virginia. The National D-Day Foundation has sparked a controversy for including a bust of famed Soviet mass murderer Josef Stalin. A public-private partnership, the D-Day Park may soon become part of the National Parks if pending legislation is passed in Congress.
The Park lies within the District of Congressman Tom Perriello. But the Democrat has been careful in his criticisms of the Stalin bust, only saying that it's sparked "unneeded controversy." In a letter (pdf) to Foundation Chairman Robert M. Bradley, Perriello mentioned that he believed the bust was inconsistent with the goals of the Foundation, but made no mention of Stalin's atrocities, such as the mass starvations of the Kulaks, and his murderous record of ethnic cleansing against tens of millions of Poles, Ukraniuns, Jews and numerous other groups.
In stark contrast, the Republican Congressman from the neighboring district Rep. William Goodlatte however, has taken it on as a cause celebre.
From the Lynchburg News & Advance: Goodlatte adds that he has heard from numerous constituents opposed to the Stalin bust, and in response, the Congressman wrote the D-Day Foundation multiple letters requesting that the bust be removed.Goodlatte is quoted:
“Josef Stalin was a paranoid megalomaniac responsible for the slaughter of millions of his citizens and others. As leader of the Soviet Union, he led a campaign of terror including mass executions and forced labor in work camps at home in the Soviet Union and he oversaw the spread of communism throughout eastern Europe and is responsible for the Cold War. The appropriate location for the bust of such a dark and sinister man is off in a dark closet but the empty pedestal and telling plaque should remain as a reminder of this aspect of World War II history,“Of course, FDR had a warm friendship with his pal "Joe" during the War. And his appeasement is credited with the handing over of Eastern Europe to Stalinist repression.
Only fitting; a member of the Party of Dwight D. Eisenhower gets it right, while a member of the FDR Party can only muster a half-hearted protest.
Photo from the 2007 film Katyn on the Soviet murderous rampages against Polish officers in 1939/40.
11 comments:
I had an article about the bust almost a month ago.
Yes, yes, yes, we all know that you're ahead of the curve Right Guy.
Yet, you didn't send it along as a submission to the top Right Libertarian site - LR.
So, you lose.
It was an editorial decision...
True, Stalin was a monster. So screw him.
On the other hand, FDR was virtually a dictator who saw no problem in being "President for Life", in trying to pack the Supreme Court to overthrow the Constitution or put American citizens of Japanese descent in concentration camps.
Let's not forget Churchill, leader of an nation that invented the concentration camp and butchered and enslaved millions around the world to create an EMPIRE. Thank God the Found Fathers kicked their English butts out.
The only thing Churchill, FDR and Stalin had going for them is that they were not Hitler.
Of the four Gary mentions:
Stalin - Radical Communist
Hitler - Radical National Socialist
FDR - Welfare Statist
Churchill - Hardline Capitalist and defender of Free Enterprise economics, and staunch opponent of the Welfare State, National Socialism and Worldwide Communism.
I hardly think there's any similarity between Churchill and the other three. Not even on the same planet.
"I hardly think there's any similarity between Churchill and the other three"
Eric, tell that to the dead Boer women and children starved to death in the EMPIRE's concentration camps. To Mahatma Gandhi either while in South Africa or back in India. To Arabs and black Africans in Kenya, Egypt, Sudan or Iraq killed by the British so the EMPIRE could have more colonies to extract money from.
Eric, tell that to Nathan Hale, Daniel Morgan and George Washington who saw the British killing our people.
Churchill was a proud IMPERIALIST who was more than willing kill anyone to keep the EMPIRE alive. Mark Levin would call it a soft tyranny.
Churchill was also half american.
"Eric, tell that to Nathan Hale, Daniel Morgan and George Washington who saw the British killing our people."
What the hell did Churchill have to do with George Washington asshole (or for that matter any innocent civilians from America)?
Dan, it's called the BRITISH EMPIRE. Any given prime minister was there to expand and protect it.
World War One for example. "The war to end all wars" the puppetmasters told the Sheeple. The British and French could not wait to take over and colonize lands of the Central Powers.
Don't get me wrong. The British Empire was a power that we needed on our side to defeat the Axis Powers. But we need to look clearly at history and not pretend. Churchill allowed freedom in England but had no interest in freedom in the rest of the Empire.
I was becoming a fine socialist, until I turned about 12. Then I started reading history, the parts that were not covered in class. I remember reading about this, all of it, and realizing I had a choice to make.
I could either ignore it all and become a mainstream anything I wanted, give or take. Or, I could choose to do the right thing. Schools were already leftstream pretty heavily. I, to a degree, killed many of my chances and took the right path.
This was one of the first big discoveries in my young life. It changed my world. If for no other reason that changing one boy who became a man, they did not die completely without cause.
Whether any one of them or all of them combined were good or bad, right or wrong, doesn't matter. What was done to them was wrong, in every way by all participants. The US had a really bad Marxian slip show through on that one.
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