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SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Judging by his latest article, Simon Sebag Montefiore and Vladimir Putin both share a passion for distorting history. The former describes Stalin as "Marxist fanatic" and writes "When Vladimir Putin presented Russian teachers with their new textbook last year, Stalin appeared as “the most successful Russian ruler of the 20th century”" Putin here reveals his blood red capitalist...
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Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... remains the elected leader of democratic Georgia, Putin will be stymied. Speaking of Putin, this Simon Sebag Montefiore op-ed in Sunday's Times contains the most chilling quote of the week (so far!): [T]oday Georgia has embraced pro-Western democracy, while the Russian rehabilitation of Stalin is best illustrated by those tanks parked protectively beside the white marble temple...
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Maurizio - Omnologos (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 ” may be “ not that far-fetched ” ( Letters , IHT, Aug 25), whilst Simon Sebag Montefiore makes some eery references to that greatest Russian of Georgian origin, Iosif Dzhugashvili (also known as Stalin) (” In the Shadow of the Red Czar “, Aug 25), ======== I am afraid most of these commentaries suffer from the tunnel vision that afflicts the...
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
Djugashivili senior was indeed a cobbler, though a drunken one, and as has been recently shown by historian Simon Sebag Montefiore in Young Stalin, he died a pauper in 1909. The boy who became Stalin had rejected his father's attempts to make him a cobbler too. An unfortunate failure as things turned out. WILLIS PICKARDLockharton GardensEdinburgh
