A Soviet poster saying "Beloved Stalin - the happiness of the people" (photo from the Daily Mail)
This is a not a myth, it is a true story. I took it from Radzinsky’s biography of Stalin, which I have purchased recently, but have only looked through it.
There was one huge statue of Stalin at the Volga-Don Channel – somewhere on its banks and it was erected in honor of the author of this great project – Stalin himself.
One day a bureaucrat responsible for that statue noticed that huge flocks of birds liked to sit on it. He got alarmed - birds would crap on the statue and spoil it. Therefore, he decided to direct high voltage electricity through it.
And every morning, workers-prisoners would gather many corpses of dead birds around the clean statue of Stalin and bury them nearby.
Just a sad story I wanted to share with you. And it was an anniversary of Stalin's death these days. Tyrants shouldn't be forgotten. Nevermore!
1 comments:
Thanks for the sad story. I am reading Robert Conquest's "The Great Terror: A reassessment." Not an easy read - but excellent.
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