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Veterans are incensed over the release in Russia of soda bearing pictures of dictator Josef Stalin and other World War II leaders.
The soft drinks will hit store shelves in early February, Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported this week. They were produced at a beverage plant in Volgograd, Russia, to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad -- Volgograd's name before the fall of the Soviet regime.
The sodas will be re-released in time for end-of-war Victory Day festivities on May 9.
The three drinks have portraits on them of Stalin, Marshal Gregory Zhukov and Marshal Konstantin Rokossovksy, framed by the words "Our cause is right – We have triumphed."
About 30 million people perished during Stalin's oppressive reign.
The head of the Volgograd City Council for Military Veterans is outraged about the soda series.
"Before such a reckless step was taken, they should have interviewed the veterans," Stanislav Gorokhov said. "Really, every one of us has known much sorry from those times ... What a feeling the veterans will have who unjustly suffered from the Stalinist repressions!"
The director of the plant manufacturing the soft drinks doesn't think the lemon soda with Stalin's image on it is problematic.
"There's nothing bad here," said Boris Izgarshev. "All three military commanders are significant historical figures."
[via The Other Russia]
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2-01-2010 @1:00PM Janeyre said... There are some rabid people, making comments here, today... None of this has to do with America. Now if they shipped to this country, then...
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2-01-2010 @1:01PM Steve said... "think"
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2-01-2010 @1:02PM Steve said... Then collectors would buy them up to make a profit. When it comes to money, we Americans have no ethics or integrity.
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2-01-2010 @1:31PM Tim said... Why is everyone so outraged by this? Its a Russian company making a product to be sold in Russia. Does it really concern any of you? Lets look at ourselves in this country. Most of us look up to or inspire to be like people who their whole life owned literally owned other human beings. Yes they did great things. "All men are created equal" except of course if you were black at the time. Ok maybe thats going too far back. How about the whole Civil War. It was a war fought bc the southern states still wanted to have forced labor and the continued oppression of people who are different from them. Hmmmmm, where else have I heard of forced labor and oppression of peoples different from you? Oh yea it happened in the USSR, the very country that is in question now. Fine you say that was 150 years and Stalin was in the past 60 years or so. How about this one, during WWII after Peral Harbor what was it Rooservelt did? Anyone? No? He rounded up Japanese Americans and had them forcibly removed from their homes and put into internment camp. He subjugated his own people yet take a look a dime and whose picture do you see? Last time I checked it was Rooservelt. I know Stalin was an "evil" man but he is part of Russian history and look at it this way, if Hilter hadn't invaded Russia fearing Stalin would break their pact the war might have turned out differently. One last thing if nothing else its just a Russian company trying to remember Russian history and don't forget "Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it." How can you learn if you cant remember the past. And finally its Russia who gives a s**t
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2-01-2010 @1:20PM Fred said... Stalin signed a peace treaty with Hitler. If you had studied history a bit more thoroughly you would have noticed Stalin was known for his purges where he killed all that might challenge him including his relatives. The man was a cold killer and anyone that paints the picture in any other color is either stupid or ignorant of the facts. Yes there are still some of us old enough to remember the truth. We are not radical right wing nut jobs or liberal give up the farm types. We know enough to read historical figures as bad when they are and any attempt to put a strong image on a pop can is just an attempt by the old party liners in Russia to prey on the stupidity of youth.
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2-01-2010 @1:20PM Amanda Addams said... Does anyone know where we can buy some of these sodas? These cans will be a hot collectors item. I would like to purchase as many as we are allowed to import.
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2-01-2010 @1:23PM jma said... Chill Out !!!!.....This is in Russia....Not in the USA....What does it matter if they want to drink urine out of jugs shaped like Rasputin's buttocks !!!....It is THEIR business....We have enough problems here in the good old USA, with what is happening with Obama and his Czars and Administration destroying OUR economy and OUR Country without going off the deep end at a soft drink being sold in Russia !!!
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2-01-2010 @1:27PM jma said... Chill Out !!!!.....This is in Russia....Not in the USA....What does it matter if they want to drink urine out of jugs shaped like Rasputin's buttocks !!!....It is THEIR business....We have enough problems here in the good old USA, with what is happening with Obama and his Czars and Administration destroying OUR economy and OUR Country without going off the deep end at a soft drink being sold in Russia !!!
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2-01-2010 @1:30PM BILL said... ppl always bash these guys but then turn around and use ALL their ideas--european union(hitlers dream),nazi bankers (the bushes),tectonic weapons(haiti)nazi gun control act(stolen word for word, then translated into english), fluoridated water(mind control from concentration camps), the illegal irs, public property surveillance cameras, agenda 21, false flag attacks, indoctrination centers-oops, i meant public schools,and on and on. the u.s. gov't smuggled lots of guilty nazis into america! and lets not forget the fact that the gov't knew 1 month in advance(broke the japs purplr code) of the pearl harbor attack, but let it happen! pure evil
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2-01-2010 @1:47PM Priss said... Japan is too and in our own history books in the USA if you have school aged children and are going over their history with them you will find some of the info has been changed as to what WE were taught while in school.
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2-01-2010 @2:06PM Jim Summers said... Stalin killed 30-40 million people but he also saved Russia from enslavement to the Germans by his massive buildup of the Soviet steel industry from 1929-1941. Not everything has to be about human rights ALL THE TIME.
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2-01-2010 @6:35PM Commercialism has ruined our society said... Well... that's about right. A product featuring photos of mass murderers just to make money. Next thing you know we'll have Charles Manson beer and Adolph Hitler cheezie-poofs.
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2-01-2010 @1:44PM Buddyr said... Bob
Is your name Bob? Don't sound like a russian name to me. Sounds like you are having another bad dream.
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2-01-2010 @1:45PM TawanaBrawley said... All you "revisionist" historians are pathetic. Stalin was a horrific, evil person.
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2-01-2010 @2:14PM TonyCarlos said... I love all the neo-cons (or are they calling themselves something else these days) who completely overlooked the fact that Russia was our ally during WW2, and that we supplied them with weapons and food in order to survive the war (thus keeping Stalin in power). I also love how they need to morf this into another anti-Obama rant. LOL.
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2-01-2010 @2:17PM Steve said... So the word for murder by communists is perished. Stalin MURDERED everyone that would not tow the line.
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2-01-2010 @2:34PM Dave said... Oh, sure, sure. And in Germany I suppose they'll make cans of soda featuring Hitler,
Himmler, Eichmann, and other "famous" nazis? And in Japan, maybe Tojo?
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2-01-2010 @2:58PM son of a WWII vet said... i wil go along wiht the vets of WWII, my dad is in heaven right now saying "tommy you dont know the horror that man put our boys thur,Im not that well informed but again I defer to the vets and I slaute you all
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2-01-2010 @6:14PM Vivian said... Son of WWII vet, Your dad did not say that about Stalin and our boys. You deminish your father's patriotism with a quote that makes him look as though he was telling a false story about his service.
2-01-2010 @4:27PM Chuck said... Stupid people throw out stupid comments. 30 Million was the number of people killed during WW2 by Germany. Stalin was repressive, but most Russians do not hate Stalin. Stalin got Russia through WW2 and defeated the Nazis and Germany. Communism was not bad for the people if you consider what the situation is now in Russia. Then everyone had a place to live, food but not luxury food, and a job. A lot of Russians would bring Stalin back if they could. Russians hate war, unlike the USA which gets a war going whenever it can.
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