Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Outrage of the Year: A Statue to Stalin in Virginia?

January 5th, 2011 Dr. Paul Kengor, FloydReports.com

Of course, it’s customary at year’s end to share our favorite news items from the year past. As someone who teaches and writes about history, I tend to focus on historical things I fear are lost to American education.
So, my enduring “news item” of 2010 falls under the category of historical outrage, though it is redeemed somewhat by another item considerably more positive. I’d like to link them here as a teachable moment.
My outrage of 2010: the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia, erected a statue of Joseph Stalin, architect of the Great Purge, Ukrainian famine, gulag, war on religion, and countless millions of deaths.
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