MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti commentator Dmitry...
supporters in Russia say it never happened, while Western anti-Stalinists present our tragedy in a way that is painful to its victims and clearly pursues dishonest objectives.For example, the recent article by Andrew Rettman published by EUobserver claims that RIA Novosti plans to "improve the image of Joseph Stalin", and "is trying to recruit one of the top 10 PR firms in Brussels to put the project in play."
The journalist apparently has a black-and-white view of the world, which, in his opinion, is divided into the flourishing and humane United States and European Union, and Putin"s retrograde Russia, which is crawling back into the Stalinist era.
This is a silly and trite claim.
I can see where this burning desire to present Russia as the devil"s advocate comes from. For years, Russia has been a "constituent other" for the West, first of all the U.S. and Western Europe. The news that there is a poor and totalitarian Russia somewhere east of Europe
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