While having no illusions as to the current brand of ‘freedom loving peoples’ in charge of the Russian government, having just gotten back from
Russia last July after having lived and traveled around the former USSR for almost three years, or having any delusions about the miraculous
conversion of Pravda to an independent search for truth, I have some small idea as to the opinions of the Russian people as to Stalin: he was a
murdering, lying tyrant; only the old and wounded military veterans long for the days of Russian Communism under Stalin, due in no small part to their
having to live on pensions of under 100.00 a month no doubt. If you want a GOOD idea of a Russian’s opinion of Stalin, just ask my mother in law; be
prepared for an hour and a half lecture delivered as only a Russian can do so.
My point in sighting Pravda as a more judicious source of insight as concerns our current American situation is based on the idiom, “never interrupt
your enemy when he is busy destroying himself”; the fact that Pravda is gleefully pointing out what any non Obama zombie or state run news agency in
America can plainly see is acceptance of the facts: “Stupid is as stupid does.”



