Quote Originally Posted by Gollandski Yozh
BTW, I have a feeling this is gonna be the longest thread in MR-history
The fastest growing one, anyway!

BTW, who cares if Stalin killed either 5 or 50 million people. It still makes him a massmurdering paranoid maniac. Like he himself said 'one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic'

Quote Originally Posted by bad manners
Surely not all of them are bad, but when you take almost anyone bashing Stalin these days in Russia, it will almost invariably be a jerk with "высшее образование" who's not good for anything but criticizing it all. "Good for nothing" is a necessary condition; they apparently realize what sad bastards they are, and they just blame their country for it.
So you've actually got an unreasoned, unreasonable fear for people who are smarter than you? Maybe because they have higher education they have more right than you to criticize Russia. After all, there's an awful lot to criticize. (I love Russia, but not everything)