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Ludwik Kowalski said:
You wrote that “Russia, naturally, isn’t too happy about the resolution.”
I do not think that this is NATURAL. Russia (actually the entire Soviet Union) made essential contributions to the defeat of the horrible Nazi regime. Numbers are summarized in my OpEd at
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Red-Army-During-World-War-by-Ludwik-Kowalski-081106-838.html
And Russian people (actually Soviet people) suffered enormously from the Stalinist regime of proletarian dictatorship. Numbers and references can be seen in my short and easy-to-read book on Stalinism:
http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/excerpts.html
It is not a scholarly book; I am not a historian. The book, published last fall, was written for those who know very little about the Soviet history. A review and comments can be seen at
http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/revcom.html
That book, by the way, is dedicated to my father, one of millions of victims of Stalinism. He died in Kolyma, several years before most of his relatives, in Poland, were exterminated by Nazis.
It is natural to remember all victims of Naziism and victims of Stalinism on the same day. It is not natural to oppose this. I strongly suspect that family members of some delegates (who protested the OSCE resolution) were also among victims of both regimes
Ludwik kowalski kowalskiL@mail.montclair.edu
# 6 July 2009 at 4:05 pm

Sten (author) said:
What I meant was, it’s “natural” for Russia, it’s common behaviour for Russia’s regime.
Russia does not recognize that stalinism and nazism were equal evil ideologies. Russia doesn’t recognize that they were allied with nazi Germany before the latter attacked Soviet Union. And Russia is doing everything in their power to rewrite history, also, by creating “truth commissions” that threaten people and even nations that do not agree with the Russian version.
So that’s what I meant. Of course there is nothing natural about denying stalinist crimes, but unfortunately today’s Russian regime is doing exactly that. And millions of Russians regard Stalin as the greatest Russian ever (although he was Georgian).
P.S. Yes, you are right, Soviet Union did contribute to defeating nazi regime, but only after nazis betrayed them. Before that, according to documents, Stalin even gave Jews to Hitler for murdering, as a “goodwill” gesture.
But even though Soviet Union contributed to defeating the nazi regime, they replaced it, in many places, including Poland, with similar oppressive and murderous communist regime.
# 6 July 2009 at 4:19 pm

Vladimir said:
The Molotov pact was not possible without the Minich pact a year before. Poland was no angel either, it signed a deal with Germany five years earlier, in 1934. In 1938, after the Munich pact, Poland – together with Germany occupied Czechoslovakia and gained part of its territory. In the end Hitler betrauted everyone and the Soviet Union took the lion’s share in defeating the Nazis and saving Eurpore.
Here’s a comment from Mateusz Piskorski: “…as Poles, we should remember that a year before we also cooperated with Berlin, although on an obviously smaller scale. Poland had taken part in the partition of Czechoslovakia…”
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20090825/155922851.html
And here’s from Wiki:
“…In early November 1938, under the first Vienna Award, which was a result of the Munich agreement, Czechoslovakia (and later Slovakia) — after it had failed to reach a compromise with Hungary and Poland…. and Poland obtained small territorial cessions shortly after…”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_Czechoslovakia#The_first_Vienna_Award
# 3 September 2009 at 12:58 am

Ludwik Kowalski said:
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FORMER STALINIST
Please share this link with those who might be interested.
http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/mybook2.html
P.S. The book is waiting for a reviewer
# 4 January 2010 at 9:43 am

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