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Posted by: Babes011878 | August 25, 2009 at 01:22 AM
Hi Mark & Steve!
My name is Andrey, I live in Moscow, Russia. Your last podcast #252 shook me very much, particularly its last part about The Second World War and what the Russians try to rewrite history. I would like to argue against.
Steve said that The Soviet Union, as such, Stalin’s Soviet Union, was their country and therefore you could not say anything negative about what the Soviet Union had done in the Second World War. Then Steve added that therefore something like the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was being justified as a very cleaver move by Stalin. I totally disagree with Steve’s report. Most people in Russia do not justify the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and do consider it to be the disgraceful and shameful pact. So this pact is not an arguable issue in Russia.
In early July, 2009 The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe passed a resolution basically equating Nazism with Stalinism. It was the resolution that brought about a scandal. Nazism and Stalinism have absolutely different roots and equating them together is a flagrant injustice.
Thereby I am trying to say that everything what is going on around this issue is a dispute of equating Nazism with Stalinism.
Thank you very much for your programs… I take a delight in listening to your podcasts.
Yours faithfully,
Andrey
Posted by: Andrey | August 27, 2009 at 02:17 AM
wao...this article was quite interesting and informative to read!!! I am surely going to encourage my kids to take up such programs where they could learn and speak various languages.
Posted by: volunteer overseas | October 26, 2009 at 04:51 AM