Stalin Honored with Churchill at D-Day Memorial
Phil Orenstein • November 30, 2009 • Uncategorized
Twice as many people were murdered by Joseph Stalin than by Hitler’s regime, but the brutal crimes of the powerful ruler of the former Soviet Union were nearly whitewashed from the pages history. Now the foundation that oversees the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va. has added the bust of Stalin to honor him along with the display of victorious Allied leaders of World War II. Candace de Russy comments on this appalling example of the moral bankruptcy of our times in an article she wrote for Pajamas Media.
She writes:
Most likely the foundation leaders acted inattentively and insensitively, and certainly without malice of forethought, in elevating Stalin to the pantheon of WWII heroes. But in doing so they conspicuously joined with the many other prominent Westerners who have failed to bear moral witness before the world to this monster’s heinous deeds. The honor they paid him stands as a particularly ominous and hurtful example of the moral blackout that shrouds modern times.
In After Virtue, Alisdair MacIntyre warned that this — the contemporary “radical incapacity” to be guided by moral reasoning, to envisage in moral terms our dealings with the living and the dead, or even to discern our own moral blindness — will be catastrophic for the human race and must be overcome.
At this time it is worthwhile to view the entire History Channel documentary, “Stalin: Man of Steel” to remind us of the terror and absolute tyranny of one of the most evil men in history.
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