MOSCOW (AP) — School notebooks with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on the cover are causing controversy in Russia.

One of Moscow's largest bookshop said it is running out of the notebooks because they are so popular — but human rights activists have slammed the notebooks as promoting Stalin as a hero to children.

Russia's education minister says while he disapproves of the notebooks, there is no legal way to stop stores from selling them.

Stalin, who ruled the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1953, is a controversial figure in Russia today. Although he was responsible for the deaths of millions of his own citizens, Stalin is still highly regarded for having led Russia to victory in World War II and overseeing its rise as an industrial and military superpower.

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They are so mentally fucked, the nation of slaves... imagine German children buying portraits of Hitler...

I see nothing wrong with German children buying portraits of Der Fuhrer.

So what, assholes in this country fall all over themselves to put on Shit Guevera t-shirts

"They are so mentally fucked, the nation of slaves..."


It's the GOD syndrome; The Good Old Days. Some people look to the past with rose tinted glasses. Yesterday was always better! People who think like that are dysfunctional. Nations that think like that are has beens. Successful nations, like people, are those that look to the future with optimism. When a country has to dwell upon its "glorious past" it's fucked. It's just biding time until it whithers on the vine and some other country just walks in and takes it over.