Of course an educator would want Stalin shown honors

Churchill said when he agreed to ally with Stalin it was a pact with the devil. He and Roosevelt didn't have much of a choice. Hitler was a terror that needed to be dealt with.

Now that the professional historians are in charge of things they are working to put things in "context". The National D Day Museum put a bust of Stalin next to Churchill and FDR late last year. Why you ask?

“[A]s a lifelong educator, I believe the Foundation has a responsibility to serve as a catalyst for serious discourse regarding key historical figures and their actions as they relate to the D-Day story and World War II in-general,” foundation President Robin E. Reed wrote to the Bedford County supervisors after their motion of disapproval. “To do otherwise is a serious disservice to those individuals that lived and died during those historical events.”

Hey Doc, in case you missed a few points in your history novels, Stalin:

1. Was a major reason for the war. He was an ally with Hitler at the beginning and we will never know why Hitler ever attacked Russia.

2. He killed more people himself than Hitler, a minor fact that leftist professors like to glass over. He had a purge of the Soviet Union in the years prior to the start of the war where he killed over millions of his own people. He murdered millions of Ukrainians, joined in marching a million Poles and Jews off to Siberia, killed 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn Forest to name a few items.

3. He did not provide any direct aid to Operation Overlord and implied he would make a separate peace with Germany to put pressure on the Allies.

But don't let the facts get in the way of "history"

At least something is starting to brew on this:

Newsmax
Petition Aims to Remove Stalin Bust From D-Day Memorial

A prominent anti-Communist group has joined the fight to get a controversial bust of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin removed from the D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va.

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, chaired by the noted conservative author and historian Lee Edwards, contends that Stalin has no business in a memorial dedicated to the memory of the thousands of young men who perished on the beaches of Normandy to liberate Europe from the Nazi jackboot 66 years ago.

“Since the fall of the Soviet Union, statues of Joseph Stalin have been torn down all over Europe and even in the former Soviet Union itself,” Edwards said. “A bust of Joseph Stalin has no place in a memorial whose purpose is to salute the brave soldiers who made D-Day a vital victory in the crusade for freedom.”

Edwards’ group launched a website to petition to remove the bust.

On Monday, the Bedford County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to oppose the Stalin image, which was installed just days before the June 6 D-Day anniversary....

Although the site where the Stalin bust now stands is owned and controlled by the privately owned D-Day Memorial Foundation, Bedford County is donating $23,750 for upkeep in its 2010-2011 budget period starting July 1. The county could slash funding unless the bust is removed.

Wayne Schwartz of Goode, Va., told the supervisors during a public hearing that he had given thousands of dollars to the D-Day Memorial, but that he and his wife were withdrawing financial support until the bust is removed because he didn’t want schoolchildren to get the idea that it is honoring the dictator.

"Stalin is probably the most hated person of the 20th century," Schwartz said. "This bust has no place at the memorial."

Thank you Mr Schwartz. Couldn't have put it better and God knows these leaches at the Foundation, aka the historians will see the error of their ways once they know it will cost them money. Now who is in favor of this....

President Obama hailed the Soviet participation in what he called the “Great Patriotic War” during his meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev on June 25, sparking harsh criticism from Rush Limbaugh and other conservative commentators.

The “Great Patriotic War” is the term Stalin used to refer to World War II, but no American president has ever used the term in a similar context.

Why am I not surprised...at least there are some more reasonalbe Democrats out there.

Rep. Tom Perriello, a Democrat representing the 5th Congressional District in Virginia, informed the D-Day Memorial Foundation that he would request removal of the Stalin statue if the memorial becomes part of the National Park Service, as some propose.

"I believe the inclusion of the Stalin bust on the memorial's grounds is beyond the foundation's mission and even inconsistent with it," Perriello wrote in a letter to the foundation’s president. "I am also concerned that the ongoing controversy could negatively impact our shared goal of having the memorial designated as part of the park service."

The pact with the devil that FDR and Churchill made is something to be discussed and debated but this is a museum dedicated to the mem who made Operation Overlord the greatest invasion of all time. Stalin was not part of it. Stalin has no place here