Get Rid of It Now!


I do not have the statistics handy, but I read recently that Mao Tse-Tung has the dishonor of being the worst mass murderer in history, with Joseph Stalin in second spot. Both were Communist leaders, intent on burying the individual freedoms represented by The United States under the thumb of government-run tyranny.
It was shocking then, to read that a bust of Stalin has been erected at The National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia. That’s right – “National” meaning “taxpayer funded”. This bust is the fourth at the display, joining Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman as opponents to Adolf Hitler. Never mind that the other three were champions of freedom and that Stalin had been an ally of Hitler’s until the German invasion of Russia in June, 1941. And please, American citizens, do not remember that no Soviet forces participated in the D-Day invasion. The Russian army was attacking on the German eastern front, D-Day occurred on the Western front.
Gosh, history can really be inconvenient, can’t it? That is why so much revisionism is now taking place. Like putting a bust of Stalin on display at The National D-Day Memorial – what a great ally! Yeah, right. Does anyone care?
One man who cares is Dr. Lee Edwards. Edwards is Chairman of Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. This organization has a web site every American should visit and every school should require its students to explore: www.victimsofcommunism.org. This web site will link to www.globalmuseumoncommunism.org. The museum web site is thoroughly historical and objective, lacking propaganda. It attempts to teach the truth about Communism from Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto to the facts about present day Chinese suppression of liberties in Tibet. Dr. Edwards is leading a campaign to have Stalin’s bust removed from The National D-Day Memorial. Those who gave their lives on the beaches of Normandy did so in defense of liberty. Frankly, a bust of Stalin on display at The National D-Day Memorial is an offense to their memory.
The News and Advance of Lynchburg, Virginia reported in its August 2, 2009 issue on the sculptor of the Stalin bust, Richard Pumphrey. Pumphrey, a professor at Lynchburg College, is quoted as saying, “He was just a terrible person, so the challenge is to embody the terror he instilled.” Pumphrey continued, “I was angry every day I worked on him ( the bust of Stalin). Knowing how bad a guy he was, you’ve got to reveal it…you should feel the figures in addition to seeing them. You should sense their nature just by looking at them.”
Dr. Edwards’ web site http://stalinstatue.com is for those who want to see the Stalin bust removed from among the others. At this site you may leave comments and sign a petition. Many of those writing in are refugees or the children of refugees who fled the madness of Communism in Eastern Europe. They know from experience that “he was just a terrible person”, as Richard Pumphrey said. The Director of the D-Day National Memorial, William McIntosh, said that the intent of displaying a Stalin bust is that he was an ally. No mention is made of his earlier alignment with Hitler. Theirs was a treaty between two devils - broken only because Hitler knifed Stalin in the back first. Had the pact never been signed August 24, 1939 it is highly debatable that Hitler would have invaded Poland and launched the Second World War on September 1, 1939. At that particular moment in history, Stalin was the crutch upon which Hitler leaned.
Shame, shame on The National D-Day Memorial. Stalin was no lover of life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness (except his own). His bust represents everything America opposes and much that is wrong in the world today.
Perhaps you would like to visit http://stalinstatue.com and join Dr. Edwards’ campaign to have the bust removed from The National D-Day Memorial. It is worth a stop at this web site just to read the comments.
By all means write or call your congressman and tell him, “Get rid of Stalin’s bust at The National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia and …
get rid of it now!”