Well....since you're gonna run and hide, let's rub it in.....
Roosevelt....'moral compass'????
8. Robert C. Tucker, Sovietologist historian, known best as a biographer of Stalin, wrote:
"Nowhere [during the 'Great Purge'] were victims subjected to more atrocious treatment than in Georgia."
"Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941," by Robert C. Tucker, p. 488.
Stalin's version of 'a hometown discount'...on display to the 'moral compass' guy,FDR....
a. Mamia Oreakhelashvili: " After the
Sovietization of Georgia, Orakhelashvili served as chairman of the Georgian
Revkom and secretary of the Central Committee of the Georgian Communist Party. He later became deputy chairman of the Georgian Council of People’s Commissars ..."
Mamia Orakhelashvili - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the 'great terror purges' of the late 1930s,
425 of the 644 members of the Georgian party congress were put to death.
Oreakhelashvili had his eyes put out and his eardrums perforated while his wife was forced to watch.
Stalin's tender mercies, as seen by the guy with the 'moral compass.'
b. Then there was party chief Nestor Lakoba, who had died before the purges, and buried with honor. They
had his body dug up and burned, and is wife tortured to death in the presence of his 14-year-old son. The son was sent to the gulag....than brought back and shot.
c. Buda Mdivani was a veteran
Georgian Bolshevik and
Soviet government official energetically involved in the
Russian Revolutions and the
Civil War, who led Georgian
Communist opposition to
Joseph Stalin's centralizing policy....he was
tortured for three months, and then shot....his wife, four sons, an daughter, were then shot as well.
9. Yet, even after the above, and the show trials.....Roosevelt said
"I have just had a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of a man. Harry says he's not and that he doesn't want anything in the world but security for his country, and I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won't try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace."
This is the 'moral compass' of the icon of the Progressives.