National D-Day Museum To Honor Stalin?

This from the New York Daily News:

The National D-Day Memorial has sparked outrage by adding to its lineup of Allied leaders a bust of the Soviet dictator who helped start World War II and the Cold War.

Not only did Joseph Stalin kill more people than Adolf Hitler in his murderous reign, he didn't send a single Russian soldier to storm the beaches at Normandy in 1944.

William McIntosh, president of the memorial in Bedford, Va., insisted "the function of this sculpture is not to honor Stalin."

Stalin is included with the busts of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill because the Soviets "secured the eastern front and helped win the war," he said.

"Given McIntosh's logic, should America put up a statue of Saddam Hussein because he was an ally of the U.S. in the 1980s when we supported Iraq in a war against Iran?"

Dunderheads!

Comments

[Astroturfer]

TLF:
Uh, no, you have it backwards.
The war probably would not have STARTED without the Soviets. Hitler's Molotov-Ribbontrop treaty with the Soviets in 1939 allowed them & the Nazis to divide up northern & eastern Europe, permitting the Soviets to conquer Estonia, Poland, etc. If both countries had not banked on the imperial greed of the other, we might not have needed a D-Day in the first place! Once Hitler started to invade the USSR, THEN Stalin decided to join our side. But he didn't join us enough to bother to send us any naval support in Normandy. They also didn't come to North Africa either: For the entire war, the Soviets only fought their own battles. Read your history!!

[Astroturfer]

TLF:
Uh, no, you have it backwards.
The war probably would not have STARTED without the Soviets. Hitler's Molotov-Ribbontrop treaty with the Soviets in 1939 allowed them & the Nazis to divide up northern & eastern Europe, permitting the Soviets to conquer Estonia, Poland, etc. If both countries had not banked on the imperial greed of the other, we might not have needed a D-Day in the first place! Once Hitler started to invade the USSR, THEN Stalin decided to join our side. But he didn't join us enough to bother to send us any naval support in Normandy. They also didn't come to North Africa either: For the entire war, the Soviets only fought their own battles. Read your history!!

[TLF]

He didn't send any troops to Normandy because the Soviets were expected to hold down the eastern front. Yes, Stalin was an evil murderer. That being said, the war in Europe could not have been won without the Soviets.