Time (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
The director of Georgia's Stalin museum believes Russian troops attacking Gori would spare the facility because they share a respect for the Soviet dictator
Time (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
The director of Georgia's Stalin museum believes Russian troops attacking Gori would spare the facility because they share a respect for the Soviet dictator
The Black Kettle (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
David Warren: It is years since I hauled out my favourite Josef Stalin quote. Time to carry it up from the basement, dust it off, and put it back on display. “Nuclear weapons are only a problem for people with bad nerves.” That the quote may be apocryphal, does not disturb me. So many of the best quotes are apocryphal, and only a puritan could wish to eliminate them from the quotation...
linkfilter.net - fresh links (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
In the winter of 1939, the Soviet Union was dicks. Russian Premier Josef Stalin thought it would be really fucking hilarious if he all of a sudden sent like two million of his dudes over to nearby Finland to start kicking everyone's asses and seizing whatever land he could get his borsch-covered hands on, while simultaneously kicking puppies and shouting profanities at inanimate objects...
ProudToBeCanadian Blog (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
It is years since I hauled out my favourite Josef Stalin quote. Time to carry it up from the basement, dust it off, and put it back on display. “Nuclear weapons are only a problem for people with bad nerves.” That the quote may be apocryphal, does not disturb me. So many of the best quotes are apocryphal, and only a puritan could wish to eliminate them from the quotation books on that...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... people milled around on the central square with its statue of the Soviet dictator and native son Josef Stalin.“The city is a cold place now. People are fearful,” said Nona Khizanishvili, 44, who fled Gori a week ago for an outlying village and returned today, trying to reach her son in Tbilisi.And around Gori, the only movement appeared to be in the opposite direction from Russia...
Moon of Alabama (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Billmon: Anatomy of A(nother) Fiasco [I]t’s a pretty strange world where the sworn goal of US diplomacy is to put the country in a situation where it may have to go to war with another nuclear power (or back down ignominiously) to defend the sanctity of borders drawn by Josef Stalin and Nikita Krushchev. Leaving aside the raving hypocrisy (Kosovo, Iraq) it’s an alarming sign that the...
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... people milled around on the central square with its statue of the Soviet dictator and native son Josef Stalin.The only movement seen by Associated Press reporters was in the opposite direction — toward the Georgian capital, 50 miles away.Nona Khizanishvili, 44, said she fled Gori a week ago for an outlying village but returned Monday, trying to reach her son in Tbilisi."The city is...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... divisions mattered little when power was totally concentrated in St Petersburg and later Moscow. Josef Stalin, born in the Georgian town of Gori in 1878, was acutely aware of the potential danger posed to his Soviet Union by its "nationalities". Some of Stalin's many paranoiac nightmares have come to pass as the bomb-damaged streets and apartment buildings of his home town...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... people milled around on the central square with its statue of the Soviet dictator and native son Josef Stalin.
The only movement seen by Associated Press reporters was in the opposite direction - toward the Georgian capital, 50 miles away.
Nona Khizanishvili, 44, said she fled Gori a week ago for an outlying village but returned Monday, trying to reach her son in Tbilisi.
"The...
Biodun Iginla's Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
by Biodun Iginla, BBC News, Minneapolis Under a statue of Josef Stalin, the best-known product of this city, a Russian and a Georgian were discussing the war. The Georgian was wearing a T-shirt and track pants. The Russian was in uniform, holding an AK-47. The Georgian, Archil Tadianidze, lives in Gori and was talking about militia fighters [...]
This Fucking War (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
GORI, Georgia (AP) - Under a statue of Josef Stalin, the best-known product of this city, a Russian and a Georgian were discussing the war. The Georgian was wearing a T-shirt and track pants. The Russian was in uniform, holding an AK-47. The Georgian, Archil Tadianidze, lives in Gori and was talking about militia fighters from the breakaway province of South Ossetia who had joined with...
Sic Semper Tyrannis 2007 (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
... Abkhazia and South Ossetia was created in the 1920s by the USSR, largely through the influence of Josef Stalin, an ethnic Georgian. The Ossetes, Abkhazians and Ajaris are, for the most part, not ethnic Georgians. Their primary languages are other than Georgian. They were "shoehorned" into today's Georgia by the USSR. We Americans have not yet learned the difference between "state,"...
Get Mash (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
AP - Under a statue of Josef Stalin, the best-known product of this city, a Russian and a Georgian were discussing the war. The Georgian was wearing a T-shirt and track pants. The Russian was in uniform, holding an AK-47. Read the full story
OTB News (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
GORI, Georgia (AP) — Under a statue of Josef Stalin, the best-known product of this city, a Russian and a Georgian were discussing the war. The Georgian was wearing a T-shirt and track pants. The Russian was in uniform, holding an AK-47….
