Remove The Stalin Statue

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CITIZEN’S PETITION TO REMOVE THE STALIN STATUE
FROM THE NATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL,
BEDFORD, VIRGINIA

TO: NATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
And
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR KENNETH SALAZAR

I, the undersigned, STAND for the memory of all the Allied troops of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Poland, Australia, and Norway who gave their lives on D-Day or in the ensuing combat on the Western Front.

I STAND for the American veterans currently living in the State of Virginia, and in all other States, who survived D-Day, risking their lives to liberate Western Europe from tyranny.

I AFFIRM that the true history of World War II must be protected from distortion and misinformation which threaten to erase or alter well-established and documented facts.

I RECOGNIZE, on the basis of overwhelming historical evidence, that neither Joseph Stalin nor Soviet forces played any part in the D-Day landings at Normandy.

I AFFIRM that a bust of Joseph Stalin has no place at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia, whose stated purpose is to “honor the valor, fidelity, and sacrifice of Allied forces on D-Day,” June 6, 1944, and that a Stalin statue should not be displayed with statues of the leaders of the Western Allies responsible for the triumph of D-Day.

I therefore PETITION the Officers and Board of Directors of the National D-Day Memorial Foundation to remove the bust of Stalin from the grounds of the Memorial immediately; I further PETITION Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar to ensure that if the National D-Day Memorial should come under the National Park Service, no bust or statue of Stalin will be included or allowed; in so acting, the National D-Day Memorial Foundation and Interior Secretary Salazar will safeguard the sacred memory of D-Day for ourselves, our veterans, and future generations.

Signed,

Marcus Kolga,

Karl Altau,
Time to go. Buh-bye!

James W. Morrison,
The Stalin bust must be taken down.

MSG Douglas L. Morrison (Ret),
WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? ? ?

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Stephen Miller,

Robert D. Lindell,
As with thousands of others I strongly oppose Stalin being represented at the D-Day Memorial.

Hilda Lindell,
This murderer has no place in a memorial dedicated to those who are honored by sacrificing so much on D-Day....

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Doug Pafford,
The Stalin bust must be removed and destroyed.

Zsolt Szekeres,

Jaron Janson,
Please honor the veterans of D-Day and Bedford by removing this bust. It distracts so much from the purpose of the memorial.

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Karin Vercamer,
This is an absolute disgrace....this man made Hitler look like a choirboy, and to place his statue among those who fought for freedom, NOT tyranny, is the height of absurdity.....WHAT are you people thinking?!!!!!

Kaija Dankers,

ivars,
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Laura Valeine,

Klavs Rudzitis,

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Aleks Bars,
Please remove the statue for the respect of the Latvian people and others who had suffered under Stalin's rule.

Ilze Garoza,

Wayne Ford,

Ilona Vilciņa,

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Liga Zemesarajs,
Stalin has no place in any honorary memorial.

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This is disgusting! Next thing you know they will be erecting a George Bush statue. Terrible and tacky! Take it down!!

Martin W. Zalite,
An utter disgrace that the butcher responsible for 20+ million deaths is honored. SHAME

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Viktorija Graudina,

Rita Bars,

Eva Tone,

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Ana Mere,

Peters Antons,
He was a crule and sick person who does not deserve this privelage. I think he was worse than Hitler!---look at the history.

Andris Kursietis,
There is no place in the USA for a statue of a mass-murderer! It truly is a disgrace to millions he killed...

Teresa Peipins,

Andris Trautmanis,

Karlis Dankers,
Adding a bust of Stalin to the D-Day Memorial has got to be one of the most ignorant, outrageous and offensive acts that greatly insults millions of survivors of communist atrocities from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s for which Josef Stalin was responsible. Just because the communists happened to start fighting the Nazis after the German invasion of Russia in June of 1941 with much Allied and especially U.S. help, is no reason to include a bust of this murderer of millions in the same place as honored men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for the freedoms we enjoy today. Shame on whoever came up with this ignorant and ill conceived idea. Are you a communist? Are you helping Medvedev, Putin & Co. to re-write Russian history so that ol' Joe would be seen in a better light? By the way, who kept removing the many negative comments from your Facebook page? I suggest that you read up on history before you make any further ill-informed decisions about what should or should not be exhibited in a place of honor in the National D-Day Memorial.
I sincerely hope that you give serious consideration to these negative comments that you are receiving via petition e-mail, Facebook, etc. and come to the realization that Stalin in the National D-Day Memorial would be a total bust.
Karlis Dankers
(my family fled the Soviet communist invasion of Latvia in 1944)

Stanislaw Praga,
What does Stalin have to do with D-Day? A convenient ally who dropped us and continued 8 more years of totalitarianism when the war was over? Bedford's honored dead deserve much better...

Rex Bishop,
The statue should be removed. Information on Stalin may be made available but not his bust.

Liga Rozentals,
A monument to a mass murderer is hardly necessary in the USA, let alone any country!

Raz Ellis,
Remove Stalin, that butcher has no right to be on this memorial

Andrejs E. Lazdins,

Renate Rutkovskis,
A man who coldly executed thousands of Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians and put those people in similar concentration camps in Siberia as the Jews in Germany, does not deserve to be memorialized amongst those who worked tirelessly for freedom and not against it. This man has no place in honoring those who gave their lives during WWII and I urge you to err on the side of reason to have this statue removed and sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Tormi Kimsto,

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Edvins Veits,

Jekabs Zalte,
To idolize Stalin is a great disrespect to the Baltic countries and the survivors of communist carnage from the past.

Matthew bleeck,

Tim H,

Liina Melanie Sarapik,

Grant Osvalds,

Kriss Petrovskis,

American Hungarian Federation,
The American Hungarian Federation Condemns Stalin Bust at National D-Day Memorial
The American Hungarian Federation honors the bravery of all who fought and died June 6, 1944, forever known and revered as “D-Day.” Americans of all backgrounds braved unimaginable horrors as they valiantly stepped forward on the beaches of Normandy to free Europe from the Nazi scourge. Freedom-loving Americans and Europeans alike are eternally grateful for the sacrifices of the “Greatest Generation.” We were looking forward to the opening of the National D-Day Memorial with great anticipation.

The National D-Day Memorial Foundation asks us to “imagine a place where the lessons and legacy of D-Day are remembered and preserved, a place where veterans of all ages are welcomed and honored, a place where visitors discover and recognize the worthy service of those who answer duty’s call, a place where gravity and dignity are hallmarks.” They explain that the “National D-Day Memorial reminds all who enter it of the heavy price that heartland communities have paid, and still pay, for freedom.”

The Foundation’s decision to include, in the last minute, a bust of the tyrannical murderer Josef Stalin is deeply disturbing and is incompatible with the stated goals of the Foundation. To include a man who murdered more people than Hitler and the Nazis and began the Cold War is insulting to “those who answer duty’s call” and “paid, and still pay, for freedom.”

On August 21, 1939, Stalin and Hitler concluded a deal -- the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact -- by which they both agreed to divide Europe. Both attacked Poland in September, less than a month later. Stalin assisted Hitler by supplying resources to assist the Nazi war machine. It wasn't until Hitler attacked the Soviet Union that Stalin fought against him. While Allied forces were fighting to free Europe, Stalin and his Soviet hordes fought to occupy much of Central and Eastern Europe. His legacy is that of death, destruction, internment, forced labor, torture, fear, suffering, oppression, occupation, and “Evil Empire.” Hungarians rose up against Soviet tyranny in 1956. They cut off the head of Stalin’s statue, leaving only his boots. The “Freedom Fighters” while initially successful, would later be crushed by 200,000 troops and 5,000 tanks. Thousands died, children hung, and 2% of the population fled, many to the United States. These Freedom Fighters would go on to make significant contributions to their new homeland.

The American Hungarian Federation, with its legacy of supporting liberty and human rights, cannot remain silent. We respectfully ask the National D-Day Memorial Foundation to remove the Stalin Bust. Stalin’s is not a legacy to be honored and has no place on hallowed ground.

Benita Plume,

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Frank Koszorus, Jr., president, American Hungarian Federation,
Placing a bust of Stalin -- a mass murderer and Hitler's ally until attacked by Nazi Germany -- on the hallowed grounds commemorating D-Day is a grotesque perversion of history.

Haris Subacius,
No matter the intent, a statue is memorial. This may be the first such memorial for a mass murderer in the nth degree in the free world. American and British heads of state were sending their citizens to save Europe from the two demons who were fighting over it: Hitler and Stalin. Deals with one of them were made in the aftermath but that does not make it right to celebrate Stalin as anything other than what he was: a terrorist dictator directly responsible for millions of deaths.

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Mara A. Kubulins,
Putting a bust of Stalin is like putting a bust of Hitler.

Ivars Bezdechi,
If anything there should be monument to acknowledge the enslavement of torture of millions of citizens of Eastern Europe at the National D-Day Monument. Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania are the only countries which magically disappeared from the world map after WW 2.

Amanda Meijers,

Zigurds Riders,
Putting a statue of Stalin anywhere in the USA is an insult to all the freedom loving Americans and a slap in the face of democracy for which we stand as a nation.

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Please remove this abomination. Stalin was a perpetrator of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

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Doan Huu Dinh,

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Pablo Kleinman,

Marc Wheat,
Stalin was a murderous horror visited upon the Russian people - and had no role to play on D-Day. It is imporant that the D-Day Memorial demonstrate familiarity with history through the visual arts. Please remove the Stalin bust.

Meghan Cox Gurdon,

Henry Song,
This is outrageous! This is a disgrace, and a slap in the face to all the veterans of D-Day.

Nick Zahn,

John Fogarty,

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It would be shameful to display a bust of this murderer.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Miller,

Sandra Stipins,

Tania Mastrapa,

Edite Lynch,
Placing a bust of Stalin at the National D-Day Memorial site in bedford ,VA. was a travesty no one with a clear mind could have anticipated would happen. The outgoing Chair of the \Foundation seems to have had a particular fantasy relationship with Stalin. Why? No one knows. But he sure wanted that bust there before his term was up. Not one Soviet(RED) Army soldier died on the Beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Stalin nor his murdering army which carried out Stalin's orders deserves a place of honour with men of real heroism, leadership,love of freedom and liberty , who did not command their armies to kill hundreds of millions of innocent souls. who disliked Communism.Tear down this monstrous Stalin for all time and never give him any honor on American soil ever again.

Bruce K. Gouldey, Ph.D.,

Justin Vander Veur,

Priscilla Tacujan,

James Rice,

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Alan Charles Kors,
A bust, in memory of D-Day, of the mass-murderer who supplied his ally Hitler with essential war materials until the day his accomplice in conquests betrayed him! It is intolerable.

HungViet Bui,
Please do not insult our nation. Remove Stalin's statue. Thanks.

Beverly Danielson,

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I had relatives who were murdered by Communists influenced by Stalin in 1944. Remove the Statue now!

Marjorie Thorpe,

richard urey,
What next, a bust of Tojo at the WW2 Memorial?

Gustav Plato,
Please remove the statue. It is offensive to me as a US Citizen and being from a family, which fell victim of the Soviet Holocaust, I am deeply saddened about the insensitivity of this.

Ilya Shapiro,

P. Peter Anniko,

Elizabeth Wheless,

Peter Flaherty,
THE MASS MURDERER WASN'T EVEN AT D-DAY

Helvi Sarapik,

Dr. John S. Micgiel,
Please remove the mass murderer's bust. Even the Russian government has begun to admit the truth about his crimes, and the National D-Day Memorial Foundation should too.

Laura Blanchard,

Terry Miller,
The D-Day Memorial Foundation Officers and Board are a disgrace and should be removed, along with the bust, of course.

Kathy Privrat,
We shouldn't even have to be petitioning to have this removed - why is it there? - this is a shameful display of ignorance and arrogance by those who made the decision to place the bust there. Stalin murdered his own people. He had nothing to do with D-Day. This purpose of this memorial is to honor the heroes of that day.

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Not removing this statue would be a travesty and insult to the brave men and women who fought as well as our allied troops.

Anna Jansons,

Victoria Palley,
This deplorable spector of nightmares deserves nothing. The only way to use (even private funds) properly was to share the atrocities perpetuated by this man - through print or documentaries. A sugary cloying bust is a slap in the face of the victims and humanity.

claude matasa,

James Tusty,

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Jeff Ventrella,

Spencer,

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It is a humiliating, appalling thought to memorialize the
legacy of Joseph Stalin by erecting a statue for him on U.S. soil

Richard Pipes,

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its a disgrace to see this murderer on American soil

Cynthia Grenier,
It's one thing to mention the USSR that did play a major role in winning WWII, but no need to cite tyrant Josef Stalin.

Christina Ellyson,

Mark LaRochelle,

Antanas Suziedelis,
Stalin does not deserve to be honored any more
than HItler does

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Vital Zajka,
There is no way a bloody totalitarian tyrant honored in the Land of the Free.
Get rid of his effigy, fight his legacy. NEVER AGAIN!

C. Preston Noell III,
Communism, "the shame of our time," deserves to be buried in the ash heap of history. Stalin's bust should be removed immediately!

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Stalin had my father-in-law deported and executed, before he had a granddaughter. His family feels insulted by the existance of Stalin's statuein the US

William Wehrly,
It is wrong to honor a cruel, homocidal dictator who had nothing to do with the success of the D-Day invasion.

Tran Van Tong,

Miss R. H. von Goetz,

Zoltan Bagdy,
I consider placing Stalin's bust in this memorial a truly outrageous act.

William Connery,
How many Russian troops landed on the Beaches?

Otto Reich,
My father and grandparents were persecuted by Nazis in Austria. My grandparents were murdered. My father escaped to Cuba. My parents, family and I were persecuted by communists in Cuba. Communism and Nazism are two sides of the same coin. Stalin is responsible for more crimes than Hitler. He does not belong on a memorial of a liberation.

Richard P. Poremski,
As Chairman, I'm signing this petition on behalf of the National Katyn Memorial Foundation, Baltimore, MD - USA

Nikolas Bars,

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Gundega MElli,

Jessica Kline,

Charles E. Thomann,
As a combat veteran in the Pacific during World War II, and also in Korea and Vietnam, and a descendant of family who have served in every war American's have been involved in since 1664, to include a cousin at Normandy, I object to the bust of this socialist dictator. Next thing you know, Hitler's bust will be included.

Edwin,
Ridiculous.
Stalin has no place on American soil in any form.

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John Lowell Armstrong,
NO STALIN, NO WAY!!!

Elizabeth Hamrick,

Gunars Lazdins,

Camilla Andersson,
Please show some respect to the millions of victims around the world and remove the Stalin bust.

frank ruddy,
It is shameful to honor at a shrine to freedom's heroes one of the greatest mass murderers in history.

Aaron CHURCH,

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Darius Suziedelis,

Babs Weingartner,
Yes get anything to do with Communism outa here.

Judith Ponder,

D Allen Dalton,

John Bibelnieks,
Stalin, butcher of the Ukraine, exterminated 120,000,000 innocent men women and children.

Zigurds Karklins,

Charles Lamalfa,

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Communists have infiltrated all aspects of US life and we see the blatant results.

Lee Brewer,
LEAVE THIS COUNTRY IMMEDIATELY you ANTI-AMERICAN, cOMMUNIST THUGS! How in the world can an AMERICAN do something this hideous?

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Aija Pelshe,

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What's next? Is it going to be Hitler? -- Afterall there is no difference when it come to mass murder. Even the Russians have rejectd him. Yet our President refuses to wear an American flag on his lapel. Shame on all of you.

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Walter Stankievich,
Stalin ordered the execution of at least 100.000 Belarusians in the Kurapaty forest near Minsk, and many thousands more elsewhere. The people who conceived the idea of displaying a bust of Stalin at the D-Day Memorial should be sent to visit all those tragic locations and place copies of the bust there.

Eriks Krumins,
The butcher of innocents in Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Latvia , Lithuania and other countries should
NOT be honered with a statue in the United States.

elmer bundza,
he was the greatest killer that the world has seen

Eligijus Suziedelis,

Arturs Grava,

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Disgrace to have him there plus he had no part of D-Day

Robert Russell,

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Deborah M Majka,
By including a bust of Stalin, you have dishonored and disrespected all those who gave their lives in defense of freedom.

Edgar B. Anderson,

Charlotte Bassett,

ronald cohen,

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Mark Q. Rhoads,
This incusion of a bust of a Communist tyrant is a bizarre mystery. Whose crazy and insensitive idea was this? Yes the USSR was an ally in World War II but the Red Army was not among the troops that landed in Normany on 6 June 1944. Stalin was a mass murderer who eliminated millions over 40 years and he was an enemy of freedom and democracy and the human rights that the USA, UK, and Canadian troops died for. It is not only an insult to Allied heroes to include Stalin's bust but it is also an insult to brave Russian heroes who fought for their homeland but also detested the bloody tyrrany of Stalin that they could not escape.

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Zinta Aistars,

Carol Sperry,
Ridiculous!

I H Dambergs,
Sure, stalin had a role in WWII, BUT he does not belong on a D-Day Memorial

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remigijus suziedelis,

Nathan G. Bein,
The memorial is for brave men; not psychopathic criminals.

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Juan Aguilar, MD,

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V.Varsbergs,

Maija Grendze,

Paul Goble,

Astra Moors,

aili,

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What a disgrace....I equate it to building a mosque on NYC's hallowed grounds of the Twin Towers. Shame

Benno Stamurs,

Ruta Bekeris, RHIA,

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Andrew Douglas,
This bust is an atrocity.

Gary Isbell,
It's a disgrace to honor a filthy communist despot in our country period. Communism and Socialism are the same evil thing that our heroes fought against and both need to be defeated, even if Russia was an ally for whatever strange reason!

Juan C. Sanchez,

Rytis Varnas,

Ramona V. Clucas,

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Rimantas Jocius,

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While the participation of the former Soviet Union in the ultimate defeat of Naziism during WWII cannot be diminished or ignored, erecting a Stalin bust to honor D-day is a gross misrepresentation of history.

Belden Bell,
About Time!

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Stalin was a mass murder of millions...

Stephanie Gwinn,

Mart Martinson,
Stalin was responsible for mass murder of 100's of millions of innocent people in Eastern Europe and a statue for him anywhere in the world is far worse than a statue for Hitler would be.

Romuald E. Lipinski,
As Siberia survivor, where I was deported on Stalin's orders, at age of 14, I protest in strongest terms against displaying his monument in Bedford or anywhere else in the civilized world. He is responsible for death and repression of millions of innocent people and will go into history as a murderer.

Andrij Dobriansky,

Raymond Matison,

Peter Ozols,
I am a naturalized citizen of the the United States, having escaped with my family from my native country of Latvia, where during WW2, many of my relatives were either tortured, killed , or deported to Siberia, as a result of the directives of the Soviet regime under Stalin. I have served in Vietnam,and I truly believed that America was against communism. Stalin never was a true ally, and America fell for his lies. It truly would be a mockery of American principles of freedom ,and my having served America, if this lying murderer's statue would be displayed in America and proclaimed as a WW2 ally of freedom. He was completely the opposite. Do not fall for this lie again.

Mara Pravs,
Stalin murdered more than civilians than Hitler. Eradicate the murderer!!!!!!

Jonathan Levy,

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This is horrible

Dr. Steven J. Allen,

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The man was a monster. It's like putting up a statue of Hitler.

Susan Freeburn,

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Stephen W. Browne,
I lived for many years in Eastern Europe, and my wife is from Poland. A bust of Stalin in a memorial commemorating the liberation of Western Europe is a slap in the face of every European nation which endured Nazi occupation only to fall for another two generations to Soviet occupation.

Zane Vokes,
He was a very evil man who deserves no respect; no honor.

Andris Padegs,
It is a disgrace to honor this murderer

Jo hn F. Boseker,
Whoever is responsible for this idea should be investigated and fired, not necessarily in that order. Perhaps the bust should be placed on our Mall in D.C. or better yet at the site of the Memorial to the Victims to link their tragedies with a face.

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Aldis Lapins,

Peteris A. Medenis,
One of history's greatest butchers of human beings. He was no mensch!

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Stalin murdered 20 million of HIS OWN countrymen, for goodness sake. Kind of a no-brainer to sledgehammer his bronze bust to smithereens. C'mon.

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Borut PRAH,
insult and affront to all who survived communism
and to the one hundred million who did not

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T Michael Lutas,
Even ignoring his monumental evil, the USSR had no role in the events of D-Day. Why shoehorn an irrelevant malevolent figure. As historical revisionism, the decision is poor.

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It's a disgrace. You cannot find statues of this mass murdered in Rissia

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We should not honor a butcher or a man responsible for the Iron Curtain.

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John A. Douvillier,
Having this bust on display anywhere in the USA is a disgrace and a travesty, a slap in the face to all which we hold dear. Why would anyone want to hold the butcher of 30 Million persons in regard other than as the Monster he was.

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This brutal murderer should not be placed there, or anywhere, honoring D-Day (in which Russian troops did not particpate). It'd be the same honoring US troops being honored at a memorial commemorating the defense of Leningrad.
However, William MacKenzie King of Canada should be there, as the Canadians did fine work that day, as in other days during WWII (and other wars).

For the butcher, Stalin? I hope he's a bust...in hell.

A.O. Romano,
Stalin is a mass murderer! He is responsible for the murders of millions of innocent Belarusans in prisons, concentration camps, Siberian gulags, mass graves throughout Belarus.

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Stalin has no place among heroes. His hands are still dripping of innocents' blood.

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I'm absolutely opposing this action and would like to invite people who initiated it to look at historic facts how many people he killed personally by signing all decisions

Cathy Trauernicht,
I am honored to sign this petition, and expect to see the Lenin bust removed promptly.

Ints Rupners,
Putting Stalin on a D Day memorial is like putting DeGaulle's name on the Stalingrad memorial. Does anyone in Virgiania have any idea about what happened in WWII?

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Anda Cook,
People do not need to be brought face to face with this butcher.

Alex Pastori,

indra purins,
a butcher of not only his own fellow russians, but a butcher of his fellow man. stalin deserves no memorial or recognition of any kind.

Garry Vokes,
Why are we honoring a war criminal?

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A few short years after D-Day, a new war would begin, and countless American lives would be lost in a place called Korea. Who supplied the weapons that mowed them down? It is your "hero," Mr. Stalin.

Having descended both from Americans who fought to free Europe from Hitler, and refugees who fought to free themselves from Stalin, I find this an all-around insult. It is a mockery of all those who love freedom and have given the ultimate sacrifice. Such disgrace!

Marek Jan Chodakiewicz,
This is a flagrant disgrace!

Steven Collins,

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Ilya Somin,

M.Gilbert,
Lets not accept the twisting of history!Please!

Ileana Johnson,
For all my relatives who have died at the hands of communism, please remove the bust of this murderer and dictator, Joseph Stalin.

Delaney Skerrett,

Baiba Serocca,

James Doig,
Stalin was a murderous thug!

Daniel Shapiro,
Stalin was a mass murderer just like Hitler; indeed he murdered more people than Hitler!

Vilnis Vilsons,
Please destroy the bust of this famous murderer.

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I am an American living in Latvia and assure you that Stalin truly has no place among the great men of WW 2. My wife's grandfather and many more (including Russians) were brutally murdered by this man.

ronan,

Brant Bassett,
Stalin was no less a monster than Hitler. Let there be no monuments to either on US soil.

Emily Skerrett,

Rita Rubenis,

Dalia Krupaviciene,

Karlis Streips,
What's next -- a statue of Hitler? Shame on you!

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Larry Madison,

Martins Barkovskis,

Venelin I. Ganev,

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Stalin never cared about human beings - they were just statistic.

Audrius Skaistys,
Who builds monuments for tirons respects tirony.

Silvi Pirn,

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Mihail Neamtu,
This is an insult to all Eastern-European countries, too.

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Ingvars Leitis,

Florian Carlan,
This is the worst sign for the future of the whole world, worked openly by USA. I"m entirely perplexed! What a shame!

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Priscilla Taylor,

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Dave Stump Jr,

Jules Balogh,
Putting up a statue to the mass murderer Stalin is like putting up a statue of Hitler. Please remove this perversion of the memory of D Day.

Ligita Krumkalns,
My father was murdered for being a patriot under Russian occupation of Latvia - To HONOR Stalin goes beyond all understanding!

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Isabelle Howes,

Ed Priola,
The bust is a disgrace. Remove it now.

John Woolwine,
The Stalin bust can be replaced with a small statute
to honor the brave Russian men and women who fought to repell the German Armies. A ground plaque with the image of Stalin and his history can be placed near the foot of the marker. This will inform visitors of who Stalin was, but not allow him the honor of a bust.
Gen. George Patton is remembered on a plaque
near ground level close to the American busts. If Patton does not deserve a bust, certainly Stalin does not!

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This is an insult to all those who believe in and are willing to fight for freedom.

James Mallinson,
The Second World War started when TWO countries invaded Poland: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. By sheer body count, Stalin is a greater criminal than Hitler was, and not just because he lived longer. Get the image of this brutal murderer out!

Alex Storozynski,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-storozynski/us-honors-stalin-on-hallo_b_363141.html

Ivars Svanfelds,
It is an outrage and a slap in the face to the brave men who sacrificed everything for freedom on D-Day.

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H. Quick,

D Garlow,

Irena Mirecki,

Don Belt,
Memories of reports of horror caused by Stalin

Lynn Lappert,

W. E. Phoenix,

Thaddeus Mirecki,
Stalin was, at the outset, a staunch ally of Hitler. Stalin did not have a change of heart - Hitler did. Honoring Stalin makes as much sense as honoring Hitler.

Aldis Kubulins,
Everybody knows how many Hitler had killed...Nobody will EVER know how many Stalin had killed!

Joan E Lusk,
A bust of Stalin at the National D-Day Memorial is unconscionable! Does Secretary Salazar know our fairly recent history? Thanks for pointing out this error of judgement

Anthony J. Bajdek,

Heiti Kotkas,

Diana B. Vidutis,
The "didactic" excuse that the commission gives for including Stalin is just plain weak. Yes, the exigencies of politics make for strange temporary bedfellows but that doesn't warrant hero status for the unsavory, much less for brutal murderers.

Jose Antonio Font,

Thomas Marsh,
As a professional sculptor of monuments, I know that there should be a record of the process by which this D-Day Memorial design came about. This record should be made public.

Valery D. Dvornik,

Margarete Holubar,
How unfortunate that those Stalin starved to death in the Ukraine can't add their names to this list!!!

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In the name of of millions of bessarabian souls killed in the gulags and in siberia, under Stalin's regime.

vicki aubinoe,
Who ever erected this statue does not know American history and has insulted every patriotic American who does know American history.

K.Sventeckis,

Baiba Apelis,
Stalin's regime marked the beginning of the oppression and extermination of an entire people that went ignored for decades. He has no place among heroes.

Howard Froehlich,
I find it reprehensible that a bust of Stalin would be displayed anywhere in this country much less to be placed on the anniversary of D-Day

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This is an affront to our troops who fought and died for our freedom and it is an outrage to include an image of a despot who murdered thousands of his people in the name of communism

Julie Garoutte,

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George Nicholson,
Never imgained that somebody would dare to put Stalin's bust in Virginia! What a travesty!

Jovita B,

Yuri Maltsev,
Unbelievable that Mr. McIntosh does not have any moral compass and want federal funds to keep Stalin's bust in Bedford. What an insult to the memory of millions muredered by the tyrant! Including thousands of American perished in Gulag and killed in Stalin-backed wars against the United States.

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Joel Margolis,

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C W Johnson,

Karen Quillen,

Zilvinas B.,
Unbelievable foolishness

Lonnie Chapman,
Without true history, we are doomed to make the same mistakes, again!

Backaitis,
Stalin has had no role in the D-day event. For that matter, he is responsible for causing the WWII to occur by his complicity with Hitler, which in turn necessitated D-Day and so many millions of lives lost. If Stalin is put up, then Hitler and Mussolini should be there as co-equal participants in the sad and murderous event,

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Anatole Konstantin,

Linda Horvath,
Tear it down just as the Hungarians tore down a huge statue of Stalin on Oct. 23, 1956, the first night of the Hungarian Revolution against Soviet tyranny!

John H. Moore,

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William McGuire,
Whoever suggested including the murderer Stalin for this honor should be shot at sunrise.

Vello Ederma,
As a surviving victim of stalinist terror, the statue is an insult.

Aria Saleda,
While Russia is de-Stalinizing and getting rid of his statues, we in the US want to honor this monster???
Shame on us.
Aria Saleda

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Absurd and insulting to victims of Stalinist terror, as my family was.

Janis Robins,
During the first year of occupation of Latvia in 1940/41 Stalin killled or sent to Siberia 75,000 Latvians!

Uldis N Bross,

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Lily Gordon,

Lawrence B Sulc,
History should be accurate.

Gunārs Zāgars,

Irena Skrejans-Fields,

William f. Krol,

Marija Danguole Navickas,
I cannot believe that anyone would even think of honoring a mass murderer with a statue. Rather, we should honor the memories of his millions of victims by removing it.

Charlotte Sveilis,
It is an insult to those who gave their valor, fidelity and sacrifice.

Juris Blodnieks,

Maria Maher,
America deserves the truth.

Preston Lindler,
God bless those who were victims of history's worst mass murderer. And God save us for not acknowledging his crimes.

Peter Kaufmann,
Citizens in Irkutsk, Siberia, rejected a statue to Stalin, yet we honor him here in the US? Is Hitler next?

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Iveta Asons,

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I hear the screams of 10,000 allied troops killed on D-Day screaming again from their graves.

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My family was slaughtered by the Bolsheviks and Communists, and were deported to Central Asia where they were inprisioned in Labor Camps. Please do not put a bust of this butcher/murderer up at the D Day memeorial. Family members suffered horribly and infants died as a result of the deportations they suffered. Millions of Ukrainians starved to death as a direct result of Stalin, and many nationalities suffered as well.

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Read Tim Tzouliadis's "The Forsaken". Then think again about this statute.

jolanta,

Vaclav James Solfronk,
I agree that statue of Josef Stalin has no place anywhere near the National D-Day Memorial. I know the deeds of this dictator he has killed and tortuted many, too many.

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Carolyn M White,

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Karen Mefford,

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Bart Pemberton,
This is digusting! Why don't you add a bust of Hitler to the monument while you're at it?!

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Agnes G. Korosi,
The idea is absurd!

Epp Aruja,
In the memory of 25% of Estonia's population who either perished in Siberia, were killed on the spot or had to flee (otherwise they would have been killed) + direct victims of Stalin. Remove the bust! Obviously someone does not know their history.

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This is an affront to all Allied Soldiers of WWII.

Maria Soukhanova Watson,
Stalin was a mass murderer and should never be memorialized. The Bedford D-Day Memorial is a dignified salute to valiant soldiers lost in a battle to another mass murderer, Hitler. History & history books should never forget these murderers, their beastly acts, nor the millions of innocent victims, but a sculpture or bust is totally misdirected and a shameful act. Remove the statue immediately.

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Renate Gravers,
Information about the number of people Stalin murdered should be included in every history and school textbook. After Mao Tse-tung he is the greatest mass murderer of all time. Hitler does not even come close in the number of people murdered.

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Such a Murderer like Stalin can not be included along our Fallen Soldiers' memories.

Ingrid Fotino,
Stalin is responsible, by the most conservative estimates (see the "Black Book of Communism", Harvard University Press, 5th printing, 2004), for the killing of at least 20
million people. He is at the forefront of those who perpetrated crimes against humanity. And a statue should be erected to him on U.S. land?

Marianne Jessee-Solfronk,
I am deeply aware of Stalins misdeeds. He truly was a mass murderer. How can it be possible that he is honored in the Bedford D-Day Memorial Park?

INGA FREIVALDS,
Stalin was an inhumane monster. He deported and killed millions of people, including thousands and thousands of Latvians. Latvia was a thriving and progressive country, until
Stalin and the communists illegally occupied the country and
flooded it with Communists and ethnic Russians. Latvia will never fully recover from the psychological and sociological impact and setback of its 50 year occupation by the soviets.

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Lauris Rozkalns,

Martha munters,
Take it down please

Kārlis Līdaks,

Agate Tilmanis,

Viesturs Timrots,
If they don't remove the Stalin statue, let's request that they put up a statue of Hitler also. After all, his troops were at Normandy during D-Day.

Mircea Fotino,
Memorializing Stalin, the universally recognized Soviet political and military mass murderer, in the US is against basic common sense and a shameful distortion of values and ignorance of facts by the proponents that should not be allowed to sully the memory of millions of victims in many countries.

John S. Kalme,

elmars grava,
Stalin was a butcher of human beings.

Peteris Dajevskis,
Having seen the Lenin statues come down in Latvia , I find it shocking to see this dictator's statue put up by own countrymen who value freedom and democratic principles. Has this group any recollection of what happened during the Cold War?

Juliana Geran Pilon,

Ingrid Merkel,
I am simply appalled at the proposal to homor a mass murder! Might his 20 some million victims arise and protest the violation done to them a second time, ruthlessly and from ignorance of . history The blood of the victims will stain those that commemorate bloody murder.

Betty Zeps,
I agree with the statements in the petition and think the statue should never have been erected in the first place. I did not even know it was there. A dictator and oppressor like Stalin is not worthy of any kind of honor.

Ron Albertson,

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Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, M.D., Ph.D.,
One has to be insane to honor the mass murderer Joseph Stalin.

Baiba Poore,

Erik Sulcs,
Better Dead Than Red!

Elizabete Freijs,

Denise Sruoginis,

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In as much as Ribbentrop/Molotov treaty (really between Hitler and
Stalin) was the prerequisite for Hitler's invasion of Poland and the beginning of WWII to honor Stalin in the D-Day Memorial is like putting up a statue of Hitler and honoring him also. Honor the boys who gave their lives on those beaches.

James H. Burnley,

Sam Hershey,

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Philip Long,
Really, we can do without honoring the biggest mass murder in world history. Sheesh.

Valentin V. Tepordei,
Remember Katyn, remeber Ribbentrop/Molotov treaty, and the 20 mil. Russians killed by Stalin!

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Mass murderer does'nt deserve such honour

Robert P. Stalder,

Fletcher Johnston,

Joseph Stoniecki,
You might as well include Hitler on it if you include Uncle Joe..

James Chang,

john cinque,
a mass murderer who killed more people than hitler has no place in our sacred monument

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Emery and Elizabeth Farkas,
Stalin was the greatest villain with Hitler of the 20th c. Horrible shame to memorializa him in the US

Mary Zinkiewicz,

Ian C Story,

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Cassandra O. Scholte,
This statute is an insult to those who fought and died for freedom on that day.

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Ivars Arums,

Suzanne Braun,
Remove!

Juris BALODIS,

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would like to know the "brain" behind the decision to erect a statue to one of the most evel people in history.

Ralph Douvillier,
I cannot believe someone would be so bold as to think that putting up such an insulting bust of Stalin would be all right with the Real Americans. Who love their country and respect our Military, Veterans, and the Americans that have died serving this Great Nation. By all means lets get that dam thing removed from this Place of Honor, and our Country.

Kestutis V. Ciziunas,

Evelyn Stratton,
No comment other than the fact that I agree with you.

Peter Lazdins,
Thousands of my countrymen were murdered by Stalin!

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Nomeda Tautkute,
The statue of Stalin is unecaptable. Don't put it up in the name of all the victims that suffered and died under his reign

AL BROZ,

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Mr. Janis Z. Baumanis,

Eva Fekete,

Rasma Dinbergs,

Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Croissant,

Eugene Megyesy,

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Lynn Criner,
Stalin's murder of millions is his true legacy, and it should be uppermost in the world's memory of him.

Leons Liepa,

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Soviet troops played no role in D-Day.

Deanna,

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Why offend so many needlessly?

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I am of Lithuanian background and several of my relatives were deported to Siberia by Stalin, for purely political reasons. He decimated Lithuania's intellectual community and killed thousands. He was a criminal and shouldn't be glorified anywhere.

Peter I. Bicevskis,

Peter Gross,

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the butcher sent my father his parents, brother & sister to Siberia, My grandmother died there. I was raised without my father, we only found out he was alive in 1957. Stalin really was a butcher, with o conscience.

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This was a dreadful travesty that it should have been erected in the first place. It should have never made it past the suggestion phase. This was a slight to millions of people who suffered at this monster's hand... and acrid spit on the graves of the many thousands slaughtered by him.

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Jean & Elemer Bernath,
As a science teacher in Fort Morgan Colorado for 30 years, recreation director for City of Fort Morgan for 12 years, I was upset to learn, that a statue in present of in that USA of Mr.Stalin. This individual is responsible for death of many humans in several countries including the country I was born HUNGARY.Denver has a Hungarian park as you know that remind us all about the 1956 Hungarian revolution against the Russians and the communist..That gave the opportunity for my Mother a two brothers to come to my to Fort Morgan.Mother is baried in Fort Morgan.My two brothers both received their doctorate in this wonderfull country of our.Now they are also retired.
In the name of all of us including my dead Mother, ,who went thru hell in Hungary under the communist,please help all the nationl in their new country, not to rember about the past, by removing the hatred statue of Mr.Stalin.
For give my mistakes, I will have a cataract operation soon in Fort Collins.I have trouble to read at the present.


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Marina Soboleva,
He was the most dreadful figure of the 20 century.
He committed the genocide to his own people killing the intellectuals, the brain of Russia. With a consequence of it we are dealing now in Russia.
My grandfather was in the concentration camp for 17 years, my parents are the siege survivors, now my family in Saint Petersburg fighting with criminals trying to protect the lend which was in the family for 100 years.

Kai Rikken,

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Joseph Stalin was a beast! To honor him in the U.S.A. is an insult to all of the Americans who served to defend freedom world wide.

Jonah Adler,
Aside from Stalin having nothing to do with D-Day, allowing his bust to desecrate the grounds of Arlington Cemetery is also a way to blur not only historical facts but the lines between good and evil and soften our resolve to identify evil.

History judges a person according to his legacy. Stalin was a monster who murdered around 20 million people and his image belongs in the rubbles of the Former Soviet Union not in Arlington Cemetery of our heroes. We must speak for those who cannot speak for themselves and who made the sacrifice for us.

Olgerts G. Orleans,

Krzysztof Ganczarski,
Stalin statue insults all Polish soldiers who had given their lifes for freedom of European countries. Don't let it last!

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Please remove Stalin's statue!

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There is no place for Stalins statue in the Western world.

Kristopher Rikken,

RASMA KUPLIS,
NO BUST OF STALIN SHOULD BE DISPLAYED1

Artis,
Millions of own people murdered in concentration camps. Hundreds of thosands people murdered all around Eastern Europe. Uncle Joseph was the guy who traited and extradited German anti-fascists to Stalin's once admired buddy - Hitler. How does that comply with US political statement DO NOT RECOGNIZE BALTIC STATES OCCUPATION BY USSR? If you really care memory of War Heroes, do not display that bastard's monument, as he is one of those two who caused World War II and following pain over the Europe.

Pēteris Cedriņš,

SNIEDZE RUNGIS,

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Toomas Rikken,

judy rikken,
An insult to all those who served!

Mantas,

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Vidmantas Gelzinis,

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Andrzej Myc,

Lauris Lambergs,

Aivars Celmiņš,

Richard Watts,

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Tagamets, Toivo,
Stalin was a mass murderer not only of his own countrymen and women but of other people who were of many different nationalities and faiths. It is inappropriate in a country which is a republic and democracy to honor this mass murderer with a statue. Especially if this honor is conncected with WWII D-Day Memorial. This Memorial honors soldiers who through their efforts and lives brought freedom to the people of Europe. People who were under the oppression of another mass murderer. Both of these mass murderers and partners in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 were the enablers for the start of the Second World War.

Clarence A. Hollar,

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He was the murderer of the 20th century. He killed 10 times as many people as Hitler

Heidy Pelszynski,
This is outrageous... we dont honor men that mass muder ... isn't there someone else - AMERCIAN who we can honor -- after all...we are in a war.. there must be someone AMERICAN we can honor!!!

Juris G. Draguns,
Not to remove the bust of Stalin fron the National D-Day Memorial would be an insult to the D-Day heroes and to the millions of Stalin's victims who includethe Polish officers murdered at Katyn, who fought against Hitler on the Allied side,

Nijole Shutterly,

CYRIL McCAFFERY,
The D-Day Memorial site should only contain items relevant to D;Day, and those who took part in this historic invasion. The tribute to the Chinese Leader should also be removed for the same reason. Do not convert this special place to a WW2 Memorial. Heidy must realise that there were more nations than USA involved in this landing.

Tony Oszlanyi,

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It is the ultimate perverse act to display the bust of Stalin at the D-Day Memorial!

Mari-Ann Kelam,
No room for mass murderers. Too many WWII heroes are missing from the D-Day Memorial in any case.

Mikk Hinnov,
Stalin and Hitler in collaboration were responsible for STARTING the war and making the allied sacrifices of the war, including those on D-Day, necessary. SHAME!

Irena Lasota,

Ingrida,

Maija Medne,
No,no,no!

Douglas Keegan,

Mikelis Austrins,

Aivar Koitla,
Former USSR and this leader Stalin are general criminals who started II WW. Without USSR help in military schools and strategic products for Germany it couldn`t start the evil force against humanity. Stalin is responsible in starting the II WW.

Teet Korsten,

John Grotta,
This is absurd

Ulvi Renser,
It is a disgrace...

Teet Korsten,

Sander Piibemann,

A. Pihta,

Urmas Piigert,

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Only in America does such stupidity prevail. Remember, the New York Times chose not to report about Stalin's Ukrainian famine, until it was to late. So it is no surprise that ignorance is passed on to the next generation. Some of us Americans will NEVER FORGET the crimes of Stalin and the U.S.S.R. as long as the new generation lives. I only hope that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson forgive these lost souls of Bedford, Virginia who allowed this to happen.

Abigail Voit,
Please come to your senses

Tunne Kelam,

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No-one dares erect a statue to honor Hitler; Stalin was no lesser evil-doer.

Laurie Morrow,
If not for Stalin, there would have been no need for D-Day. Remove this obscenity from American soil.

Imants Minka,

Maruta Lazdins,

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This is severely disturbing, that such a symbol of massive cruelty would be featured here.

Barbara Ardelt, Wojciech Ardelt,

Rein Vanja,
My English is bad.

Evi Vahtra,
Shame.

Alfreds R. Semeiks,

James E Hinish, Jr.,

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george and lorraine kipel,
There may be no better definition for irony. On a day that will always be remembered for liberation,sacrifice, and a victory for democracy, how can you possibly memorialize of of the worst oppressors in human history. What was someone possibly thinking to create such a terrible blunder.

Lyyli Kersalu,
I offer my help in deep moral crisis US is going through. How else can we explain that mass murderer's statue ended up in D-Day Memorial to be honoured.

LTC Christian J. Jensen,
I am a 29th Infantry Division (Light) veteran and am offended by the worst monster of the 20th century being immortalized through his bust being displayed on what I consider to be sacred ground. I visited the Memorial before the Stalin bust, but will never return until the mass murderer is removed. Haven't the good people of Bedford suffered enough without having to be put through the shame of living in the same vicinity as that butcher's bust? Shame on all those who are responsible for this decision or who did nothing to stop it!

Dr Inna Rogatchi,
This is a complete outgrage which reads more orwellian than Orwell. The 'best' sample of re-writing the history, and of sending a completely wrong message to the world on what's USA is known as being standing for. And an utter mockery of a freedom. By all means this shame should be removed from the US soil instantly. And it will be quite useful to publish a detailed account on the background of this extra-ordinary 'excercise'.

DR Michael Rogatchi,
As a son of a political prisoner in the Soviet Gulag, and a person who due to Stalin and his regime have spent a large part of life in the Gulag and Gulag areas in exile, I am completely outraged by this unbelieveable fact. And do wish anyone who has been involved in the decision and its fulfillment to spent the rest of their lives in the places which Stalin did develop the best - namely, in Gulag. There are some left on the earth yet today - in North Korea, China, or Cuba. All those activists for commemorating the Stalin's memory on the US soil should be sent there for good, to enjoy the practices of Stalin inheritage fully.

Markus E. Apelis, Esq.,
Including the bust of one of the world's most brutal tyrants, responsible for the near evisceration of entire nations, does nothing to honor those who gave the last full measure of devotion on the beaches of Normandy in June 1944. In fact, permitting it to remain dishonors the memory of those untold thousands who were sent to their deaths under this monster's iron fist, those who lived under his oppression for decades, and those who have and continue to fight for freedom and independence.

Eric Cjhenoweth,

Peeter Jakobson,
Dr William McIntosh,

There are people of accomplishment with grand titles some that even deserve the accolades. And then there are those in exalted positions that defy reason. They behave badly or have achieved high status without real merit. I do not know which is the case with you the National D-Day Memorial Foundation President. You are dead wrong in this decision to include Stalin.

Stalin and Hitler joined in a pact (Ribbentrop) and together started World War II. No matter what he may have done subsequently, that in an of itself would disqualify Stalin from any consideration of what you referred to as an ally who helped the allies defeat Nazi Germany. Dr McIntosh, you could have set the record straight after these decades have shown the despicable murderous true nature of the monster called Stalin and put Churchill next to Roosevelt and said nothing.

Look at the way things really were McIntosh, if it weren't for the allies, the Germans probably would have destroyed more of Russia. Stalin and his communist gang would have ended up in the salt mines of Siberia. Look at some of Stalin's speeches, he wanted the war to linger to weaken the west so that communism could spread easier, but he didn't anticipate Hitler turning on him.

Mcintosh, take that abomination down and if the new president elect of the foundation Reed cannot comment on this matter, he should not be considered!

Peeter Jakobson, MD

Susan Szappanos,

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Maria and Sergio Aguero,

Inta Rutins,

Stefan and Krystyna Madajewicz,
Stalin`s pact with Ribbentrop open the door to the World War II and subsequent murdering over 20mil. victims of it; Katyn and more and more

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sarah,
How could this mass murderer be honored with a statue? Please have respect for those murdered by Stalin and his henchmen.

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Martins Trautmanis,

zev wajsman.M.D.,
as a victim of stalinist presecution I strongly support the petition and protest the ignorance and insult to our Veterans and to milions of vicims of stalinism in the world

Agu Ets,
Dr Macintosh seems to represent the latter day group of people whom Lenin called "useful idiots."

Ingrida Erdmanis,

Vidmas Kondratas,
Russian soldiers played a key role in defeating Germany during WWII. However, we should not honor their memory and sacrifice by glorifying the memory of another facist dictator that murdered so many innocent people. It's a slap in the face to all the victims of fascism and fascist communism.

Anya Bancroft,
This is a disgrace! Take it down!

Elizabeth MacLean,

Ilan Wajsman,
Do they not teach History up in Virginia?

Vaida Meizys,
Please don't worship this monster!

Aurel Vlad,
No statue for a Tyrant and Assassin. As a political prisonier I was arrested , 16 years old, send in labor camp for six years, all 4 brothers in prisons , one executed.

joanna chabowski,

Gunta Kaza,

Ingrid Vaga Neel,
If you know history, Stalin and Hiltler were secret allies at the start of WWII, then doublecrossed each other and each committed horrendous atrocities against innocent civilians. Neither deserves a memorial on our soil!

H Bryan Neel, III, MD PhD,
It is a horrendous injustice to victim's families to honor Stalin, a tyrant and murderer of civilians.

Toomas Rebane,
It is not political correct to be ignorant of history. No statue.

Leon A Kuplis,
This should have never happened

KARL ZIEBARTH,
Lee:

Good going! the facsist thug must be expurgated.

He and Hitler were one and the same.

Karl

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Jaanus Kase,

Sebastian Doreanu,

Tiina Fischgrund,

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Peet Sink,

Dina Aditajs,

Irakli Porchkhidze,
No to Stalin and Stalinism

Katrina Lidaka,

Zurab Katchkatchishvili,
21 Century without Stalin!

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Evhen Tsybulenko,
The main reason why Stalin should be removed is that Stalin was a greatest criminal of 20th century (together with Hitler), who was directly responsible for death of millions…

Meanwhile the wording of the appeal itself is quite weak - USSR was an ally country and heroic fight of soviet soldiers indirectly but very significantly helped to the success of D-day.

Luís Ribeiro,

Sylvia Freiman,
STOP the elevation of murderous dictators!

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Carla Tomaszewski,

Antoaneta Cami,

Juris A. Balodis,

Sandra Kuplis Trevathan,

Lisl Biggs-Davison,

KARLIS E. RUSA,
It's inconceivable that anyone with the slightest knowledge of 20th century history could want to erect a statue to Stalin ANYWHERE.

Zigfrids Jirgens,

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Harvey Clarke,
The Stalin bust is part of an effort by the former President of the D-Day Foundation to politicize the Memorial and change its mission from honoring the 4313 Allied servicemen who died on 6/6/44 to a historical monument for all of WWII. All of the Busts except those of Gen Eisenhower's staff are politicans, only two of which had anything to do with the detailed planning of the Normandy invasion. Stalin was an ally on 6/6 but had little specific input on the planning and execution of the invasion. Stalin does not need to be honored. Period!!

M. Racenis,

Marie ciliberti,
The bust of Stalin should NOT be in any country of the world. Even showing the face of this fiend is a disgrace.

Gunars Z. Kancs,

dan peters,
This is the fellow who refused to allow our planes to land in the Soviet Union while attempting to resupply the resistance forces in Warsaw and halted his forces on the outskirts of Warsaw so the Germans could first eliminate the resistance?.....

Please get serious.

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Rick Rivera,
I can't believe the statue was erected. Have the lost their minds?

Martins Sausins,
Please shop the head of Stalin, as he did to many other..... !

Helen Simon,
It should wear eggs daily until it's removed.

Rafal Gawlowski,

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Harry Wu,

C. Robert Keenan III,

Nicole Kempton,

Rebecca Tatum,

Lisa L. Thompson,
Stalin is the man responsible for the horrific death of millions, yet you chose to honor him at the D-Day memorial! It's outrageous.

Carlos L. Castillo,

Elena Maza-Borkland,
Stalin was a mass murderer who murdered millions of his own people--why should he be honored in any way? It's a disgrace to have his bust in this monument!

William Galloway,

Melissa Manuel,

Julio Betancourt,

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Roger Lindsay,
I strongly urge and support the removal of the statue of Stalin from the D-Day Memorial. It is a disgrace to all those who sacrificed on D-Day!

GREG EIGENFELD,
Stalin made Hitler look like an altar-boy! Think GULAGS...

Sylvia Meijers,

Kris Wood,
That murderer doesn't belong anywhere near the D-Day Memorial! Melt that thing back into scrap.

Charles Elcock,
Get this murderer out of a memorial to our brave, liberating military personnel.

Robert A. Kulkusky,

Ian Strangeways,

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anhthu lu,
Stalin was a mass murderer, never a hero. He has no place with our World War II heroes.

Jose Sanchez,

Robert Meyer,

Lan Mong Lu,

Shawndi Hoy,

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I agree with Kris Wood....melt it back to scrap and throw it in the trash!

Nick Baker,
What the hell's wrong with you people? Stalin killed more people than Hitler!

Bernie Reeves,
I am foundwer of the Raleigh Spy Conference that has hosted leading Cold War scholars. Stalin was a brutal genocidist and has no place at the War Memorial

Ron,

Mark Kohan,
Remove this bust immediately. Stalin symbolizes all that is wrong with Russia.

Maria Bergeron,

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Michael Clyde,

David E. Stark,
Stalin at a D-Day Memorial?! A mosque being built at the 9/11 ground zero?! What are we allowing our country to become?

Cynthia Hitschler,
Names of all individuals and organizations supporting the Stalin bust installation as part of the D-Day Memorial should be published.

Sharon Stathopoulos,
Outrageous!

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Agris Pavlovskis,

Matthew Roberts,
Stalin, a mass murderer on par with Hitler, and former ally of Hilter, has no place at this memorial.

Maggie Holseberg,

Emil Jeffers,
Although the Soviet Union was part of the Allied Powers during WW2; the Soviet Union did not participate in Operation Overload and the Allied Invasion of Normandy! Therefore the bust of Stalin does not deserve a place in your celebration.

Christine Cheesman,
Pure insanity

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William Browning,
Melt Stalin's statue into scrap metal!!!

P.T. Gustan,
Stalin had nothing to do with D-Day; he was the most disgraceful of the Allies, in the long run responsible for more suffering and death than Hitler. No bust, no honor.

Ronny W Burdewick,

L. Jones,
Inappropriate for this memorial or any other connection to our military. Insane even to think this is right.

Joe Smith,
Responsible party or board should be fired and repalced with Americans.

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RICHARD SMITH,
This statue must be removed it has no place at the Natonal D-Day Memorial

Joe Kimmey,

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Gary King,

Gary Morella,
Stalin was a brutal dictator who does not deserve to be honored in an America that prizes freedom over tyranny!

William Carp,
Send the bust to Russia, maybe they will find an obscure basement for it.

John F. Quinn Jr.,
I'll bet the farm that whoever thought it was a good idea to have include Stalin wasn't a combat soldier or even a veteran. It's Despicable!!!!!

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Thomas H Slack,

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Stalin was an evil leader who make millions suffer and die.

Cheryl Frantz,

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James Sauls,
The idea of this bust is offensive and peverted.

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This is an insult to every Americdan who fought
to keep our country free.

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Rebecca Belden,

Miley Sutherland,

Morris Rainville,
Stalin was drinking his usual vodka at the time of the D-Day landing and did not care what was happening in France.

Cathleen Amelio,
How dare anyone place, using public funds, on public property in the United States of America erect this atrocity of a maniac dictator! How dare you! If you loved this man so much move to Russia! How dare you disgrace this country with a dictators image! Men and women died for our freedom and not for this! What is wrong with you people? Have you no shame?

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Stephen J. Savoie,
Over the top, like so many decisions that have been made since Barack Hussein Obama has become our President. Time for the people to rise up and say "enough is enough".

Steve Hague,

John howes,

Martins Daiga,
Mass murders do not deserve a bust in a memorial for heroes.

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Stalin should not be honored in any way.

BARBARA WHARTON,

Carl Vaughn,

Terry Swan,
do any of you really know our history?? maybe you need to do some research before deciding stalin should have a statue in our USA

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Sad, shameful days for America.....

John Kiernan,
Typical of the ignorance of the left and it deceptions

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Roma Hadzewycz,
The installation of Stalin's bust at the National D-Day Memorial demeans Stalin’s victims and dishonors the true heroes of World War II. There is no reason that Stalin, a mass murderer responsible for the deaths of untold millions – including millions in the Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 in Ukraine – should be honored in the United States.

DrTruong Tan Trung,
To never glorfy crimes of Stalin and communisum around the world including Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)

Richard Snyder,

William Collier,
I agree with the comments of the other contributors. It seems that many un-american decisions such as this one have been occurring recently. Can we not trust anybody in authority to make decisions that support the principles upon which this country was founded? Perhaps the responsible parties should be stripped of their citizenship and deported. There needs to be consequences for un-american treasoness actions!

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what idiot wants to include Stalin in this remembrance of D-Day?

Roger Anghis,
Placing Stalin at a memorial for our fallen soldiers is nothing more than slap in the face to those who fought in WWII.

Lloyd Scallan,

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Jerry Freeman USN (ret),

Alan Jones,
I grew up in the area of VA near Bedford and cannot believe the people there want this statue

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SILVIJA ZARINS,

Eric Rice,
Never should any dictator be honored on US soil

Terry Boone,

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The Officers and Board of Directors of the National D-Day Memorial Foundation have joined the ranks of those who wish to destroy the values, beliefs and foundation of America. They have acted in a malicious, and defamatory manner directed at those who fought and died for freedom. Joseph Stalin has no place within the structure and basis of America. Officers and Directors need to resign and/or be removed as they have shown they have no perception of the duties and responsibilities attributed to the positions they hold. Make peace with yourselves, elsewhere.

gerald saltzman,
we need to stop this nonsense and support our
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If someone would have told me about 18 months ago that I would be writing an email to REMOVE a terrorist dictator from a place of honor in this country I would have said "Hell NO!" And yet here we are.

I am wondering who are the members of the National D-Day Memorial and what possible explanation they could have for undercutting the sacrifices of our WWII veterans. Obviously they have never served in our military and need to be given a thorough education!!

Bruce Roosa,
This notion of giving Stalin any recognition is a disgrace!

Jean Marie Marsden,

Becky Lannon,

Paul Hadzewycz,

David Harvey,
Dictators are to be overthrown, not embellished in memorial.

Ziva Sahl,
My Father was a WWII Vet, a man proud to have fought for continued freedom of our great nation and that of our allies. The inclusion of Stalin, a mass-murdering dictator, dishonors all the those who fought wth the Allied forces.

Marcie Dreyer,

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This is an absolute insult to those who gave their lives for our country during this war. What are you thinking and what is the justification for this decision to include this murderer?

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Eric Pierson,
This statue is not only embarrassing to have on US soil, it is insulting!

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He does not belong on any D-Day Memorial. What are they thinking???

Kathy Vennemann,
This is an outrage. Since when do we idolize mass murderers?

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Maija Demants Salkeld,
Get rid of it!

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John Schilling,

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This is so absurd that it is difficult to belive.

Keith A. Kelso,

Eric Ellis,

Melvin Jones,
I think it is shameful and stupid to include Stalin. If he is to be included, by not in Chiang Kai Shek. He at least was not a murderous dictator. But he didn't have any more to do with D-Day than did Stalen the murderer.

Victor Hadaway,
I am a Vietnam veteran against this abomination. My father Charles K. Hadaway fought in WWII for the freedoms that stalin denied so many.

Thomas Gilfether,

tom irwin,
Sralin did nothing to help the in the D-Day landings. Where as the landings helped Stalin.

Helen Sedlack,

MAX MILES,
I am a vet and this is disgusting a memorial for one of our biggest enemies of world was two

Frank Muretich,
My favorite uncle fought at Normandy on D-Day! This is a slap in the face for all WWII Veterans! HOW dare you dishonor their bravery and sacrifice!

Anders Hjemdahl,

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This is an insult to the patriots that fought communism

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Get rid of this pathetic statue ! He had millions of people killed!!!!!

Dayle Robbs,
Let us honor those worthy of honor. One responsible for the massacre of millions should not be honored.

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Steve Dunn,
If Stalin, then why not Hitler, he had a H*LL of lot more to do with D-Day than Stalin. However, in truth neither deserve a place at the table of heroes. Only true patriots to the cause of freedom should be recognized and honored for their participation and sacrifice in this great event. In my opnion, this raises questions about the patriotism of those who made the decision to include Stalin.

sharon crow,

david berkland,
stalin was the opposite of what our soldiers died for

Ralph Quosig,

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1. Russia was not part of the D-Day Invasion
2. And perhaps more importantly in this case, we do have hindsight to rely on. No matter his role, one of the greatest muderers of known human history should not be glorified in any way, shape or form. Reality trumps all else.

Wes Christensen,

Thelma Taormina,
The bust is an insult to every person who has given their life for our Country and our freedom.

Scott Brittin,
Can't begin to imagine anyone believing this would be a good idea. What in the hell were these people thinking/smoking?????

Marcie Soto,
Are we now honoring those that have committed crimes against humanity? This is beyond immoral.

Neil Horowitz,
This commie bastard's bust has no place on US soil! Especially commemerating an event he had no part in.

Denise Greer,

Will Blatz,

Kevin Burkett,

Patrick Corcoran,
Stalin has no connection with this memorial and should not be there.

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Jennifer Copeland,
There should never have been one erected in the first place !!!!!!

Eric Rappaport,
Thank you for you efforts to defend the sacred honor of the troops who fought to liberate Europe form tyranny on D-Day.

Chris Fay,

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I can not believe this Country would have a bust of this person in that place of honor. It's an insult to every Veteran.

John C. Fowler,

Ruth Delaney,
This statue dishonors the memories of my beloved uncles who fought in WWII. Please remove the bust of this butcher from the memorial.

Michael Rabjohns,

cazacu marius,

William Phillips,

Gay DeHoff,
This is an insult to every military person living or dead. It is another example of Political Correctness amuck instead of common sense!!

Troy Case,

Cassandra Troy,
History is not relative. Joseph Stalin has no place in this memorial for brave men and women who gave their lives for liberty. Stalin was a tyrant who enslaved half our continent for decades and was a mass murderer to boot. Facts matter. Time does not change them.

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Insult. Remove Stalin.

Elizabeth McCarthy,

Pamela Lowe,
Is there no end to the ignorance that could even suggest a bust of Stalin in this place of honor. I am hurt for those who gave their lives, and it is in their memories that I object to this.

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This is a travesty to those who fought & died for us & the Free World!

Shirl Lamonna,
My Dad landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. Three months later, he lost his arm fighting for our freedom. His brother landed on Utah Beach (also on D-Day) & they spent many hrs throughout their lifetime discussing the horrors of the war. I am appalled that the US would include a bust of this Marxist/Communist mass murderer at the Natl
D-Day Memorial. This is disgusting!

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WHY ?? honor Joseph Stalin......what audacity! It was our Western Allies who triumphed in the D-Day landings at Normandy.

Robert Henry,
This sucks. Stalin was a butcher and incompetent leader. He was responsible for the huge losses to the Russians. He wanted war with the USA. How dare the obamy the commie administration put up such a thing.

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an insult to the american ww2 veteran to have this erected.

norbert rohaly,

Carlos Eire,
Absolutely shameful, to honor this monster in such a way.

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The D-Day Memorial should be about the truth of the brave men and women who died defending liberty on that day. Mr Stalin did nothing to promote liberty. He should not be commenerated in any way

Ardell Barr,

Gabor Becht,
It is a travesty to leave this statue/bust of a mass murderer

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Communist Dictator that sacrificed his people should NOT be honored with our fallen...they fought to free...he fought to suppress. Its and insult!

Robert Bullock,
Insanity - stop it!

Calvin Weyers,
This man should not be honored in any way, shape, or form in this nation. His pact with Hitler enabled that regime to begin a terrible war - one that later engulfed his nation.

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ben davis,

J Cruz,
This Communist mass murderer has no place on American soil. Who ever is responsible for putting this thing there should get the hell out of the USA. God bless America and all who defend her!

Staci Jackson,

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How dare you put a bust of this low-life monster among our heros! You need to be fired, if you allow it to stay!

Matt Wolfe,
The tree of liberty must be refreshed every now and then with the blood of patriots and tyrants, it is the natural manure.

Gintare,

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J. K. Ingram,
Absolutely LUDICROUS idea! Has D.C. gone completely out of it's collective mind? (Appears to be so!)

Gary Richardson,
Russians didn't sacrifice at D-day and Stalin was a dictator who murdered many millions of people and should never be obsurbed as a hero, He was a butcher,

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Eileen Neulman,
This is an evil man and an enemy of the State!

Rocco D Filoso,

Mary Jo Lampe,

Elizabeth Sams,
This is beyond insulting and absurd - get rid of the Stalin statue NOW!

Timothy Williams,

Frank Dry,
We need to get to the bottom of who's idea this was and fire them.

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Inclusion of this hideous tyrant in this honorable memorial is an appalling and outrageous act, as well as being historically dishonest. What could be the purpose???

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This is just one more step to indoctrinate the US to become one with the world.

Andrew Ludanyi,
His presence would desacrate the memorial!

Chad G. Abbott,

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Ralph Russo,

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THIS IS JUST ONE MORE INSULT TO WEAR DOWN THE PUBLIC IN PREPARATION FOR A SOCIALIST/FASCIST TAKEOVER

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America shouldn't honor political killers.

mara kaugurs,
Unthinkable - unbelievable!

Joel K. Levy,
Why do we have this tribute to this monster in our country? What about Hitler, Mussolini, and Mao? Might as well have statues of them, if we are going to have a statue of this homicidal maniac.

Shirley Manning,
This is a slap in the face to all who served during WWII to have a Mass Murderer's bust included in our National D-Day Memorial. Remove this abomination!

Madra Bernard,
Insulting

Jameson Lewis III,

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Those who have caused this deceipt will receive their reward.

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My family landed on D-Day and I've had family murdered by the Russians during their occupation of Eastern Europe this is an insult to all freedom loving people in the world. Take it down!!!

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STALIN??????????????? Are you fucking kidding us?

Lisa Crawford,
Honor is for those that fight for freedom on D-Day. Stalin did not. Do not confuse history, do not disrespect sacrifice and do not misrepresent the facts of the past.

Nick Taormina,
I am the President of, We The People Are The 9-12 Association, Inc. and a veteran this is disgraceful this man who murdered his own people, should be shunned not honored, please stop this insanity NOW !!!

howard schelin,
what kind of education created this situation??

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Henry Gomez,
Stalin should not be praised for any reason, especially for events he had nothing to do with.

Susan Husselbee,
A communist murdering thug should never be honored in an Amercian war memorial!

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Cathe Harris,

Elise Newman,

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Cindy S.,
Murderous dictators should NEVER! be honored in the US!

Rose Marshall,

Marge Taylor,
It's an insult that they would put Stalin,the butcher, there.

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This is just one more step to indoctrinate the US to become a One World Order. A complete disrespect to our Miltary. GOD Bless!

Isaac Gutwilik,
Find another appropriate place for his bust. Any
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The above explains it all !

Joann Balfour,

Markshearman,
this is not right!!!

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Neil Steiner,

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Norman J. Garneau,
Another progressive attempt to rewrite history.

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Linda Faison,

aleidaquintas,
We cubans that sufer under comunies goberment do not wish the criminal be homenage

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Scott Strong,

Ken Stewart,
Stalin had nothing to do with D-Day, hated the West, and killed more of his own people than Hitler did.

Boyd Leavitt,
Having any reminder of Stalin is unworthy!

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This is a disgrace. One of the most brutal, murderous dictator has no place among the honorable men and woman of D-Day.

Emilio Carril,
It is an obscene travesty to have a bust of this monster in the D-Day Memorial. It must be removed!

Warner Todd Huston,

Astrid Sköldebring,
The appropriate place for this bust is under a huge roller that will pulverize the darn thing to smithereens.

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What an affront to the veterans who actually liberated western Europe on June 6, 1944. It is shameful!

Dan Crone,

Mary Gillespie,
There's no recognition of Stalin in Normandy - even the French understand this issue!

Wanda Slawinska,
Stalin is the author a death sentence of millions of freedom loving people.

katherine l. zeigler,
It is a travesty to memorialize a mass murderer

Juris Lazdins,
Stalin's sculpted likeness has been relegated to heaps of rubble in his own country and here we put him on a pedestal. That someone would come up with this sickens me.

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This is SICK!!! Is this for real???? How could our government approve such erection???

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He does not belong there and needs to be removed. It is a disgrace to all the honorable veterans who fought D-Day.

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Frank Nave,
Get rid of it.

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It is a disgrace to all who fought for the freedom we enjoy. Remove the statue.

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You cannot risk losing contributors over this issue.
Cut losses now and remove the Stalin bust.

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Mart Arold,

mary powell,

Arthur Zeigler,
Stalin was responsible for the deaths of many more people than Hitler. Get rid of the bust.

Doug Walters,

Richard Babcock,
How about a list of these board members?

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As military veteran, I find the inclusion of a brutal dictator appalling.

Rev. Imre A. Bertalan,
Who's idea was this in the first place? Stalin's destructive and repressive effect on Hungary (along with other countries of Eastern Europe), stands in stark contrast to the spirit of human liberation, freedom and sacrifice, as symbolized by the events surrounding D-Day and the brave people involved in carrying out the mission.

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NO WAY! he had nothing to ndo with D-Day!!!!

Jim Latham,
The fact that NDDM Foundation Directors would even consider placing a bust of Stalin anywhere in the United States is unbelievable. God have mercy on our country.

Richard Gilliam,
What the heck is it about history that these people don't understand? Yes, one of the reasons that the 2nd front was opened was to releave the pressure on Russia, but Stalin had no part or parcel of this operation. Get his damn face off the memorial.

Jill Swanson,

Charles W. Stauss,

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Stalin statue is a disgrace--agree with request for a list of the board members!

Alex Perez Sr,
Get that freaking murderer off that sacred soil and dump the bust over the oil spill.

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Tom Lewis,

Charles B. Watson, MD,
Hitler was actually responsible for fewer deaths than Stalin, might as well have a bust of Hitler there.Stalin's brutal police state and policies killed millions, including large numbers of Jews who were repatriated to the Jewish Autonomous state in Siberia. Does the D-Day memorial celebrate the gulag?

Stalin had nothing to do with D-Day and doesn't belong at this memorial, whatever anyone thinks of him.

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Beverly Ketchum,

Mike Spray,

Nancy Bradley,
Veteran's will be rising up over this one!

Carol Kennedy,

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This is an insult to our Veterans who fought for our freedom.

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Stalin should be removed and forbidden further expoosure at any US memorial site.

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David Ingram,
We must turn back every attempt by the socialists in this country writing and teaching revisionist history. The greatness of American culture and American exceptionalism must be taught and encouraged.

Lauris Wheeler,

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Armando Alvarez,

Ron Neal,
Quit stalin, get ride of the statue NOW!

Pat Norris,
This is an outrage!! Go back to Russia and worship him there..USA is NO place for this dictator!!

Joseph Hyde,
Might as well get a Mao statue also and soon Obama as well

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S. C. Snedeker,

Cissie Megyesy,
Please remove!!!

Bradley Moore,

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keith walter,
Will Hitler be next?

Juri Toomepuu,

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hua vang Tho,

Scott Walsh,

D.Long,

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My family is in the United States fleeing the likes of Stalin. It is an abomination that our soldiers die to keep us free from Communism and then a bust of the dictator is erected in his honor. Shame on the committee.

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This is not right - period. Stalin, Like Hitler - is dead. Lets NOT keep them alive like ELvis..

Monica Walsh,
Do we really have to petition to preserve truth? Who is responsible for these decisions who do not know their history, and why do they have that decision-making power? Either beef up on history or resign, please.

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The statue has got to go. It is a disgrace.

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Why would we honor a mass murderer with a statue? We stand for freedom, not tyranny!

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Patricia Patton,

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May God bless all of us.

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Herb Englund,
Have we lost our minds? Millions died under the brutal fist of this monster - this is tantamount to erecting a memorial to Dr Mengele for pioneer research in our understanding of pain and suffering

Mary Horwath,

Kathy S Jurn,

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Leron Sasser,

BAO QUOC PHAN,
I HATE COMMUNISM

Brad Orris,

Bruce Freise,

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Donald Baxter,

Richard Jones,
I will never visit a memorial or exhibit that honors the mass murderer Stalin

Mary Rigert,

Jennifer Stastny,
Disgusting that someone who systematically murdered tens of millions of people could be honored on our soil.

Peter Szog,

Margaret Bond,

Janice Boone,
This statue is an insult to all the brave men who landed on D-Day, all those who fought in World War II and all patriotic Americans who stand for freedom. Only the vilest creature from the pit of hell would consider this display appropriate.

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PLEASE do not let this man have a place of prominance.

Sean Ownes,

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This is a disgrace considering the millions Stalin murdered and disruption of peoples' lives.

Judy Megyesy,
Cannot believe this! Do these people know anything about the History of Stalin and the millions he had put to death?

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Murderer, pillager, Communist

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Honoring Stalin is a disgrace.

orien rigney,
Mr. Obama, Have them tear that Stalin statue down!!

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Victor Gray-Lewis,

John Gable,
Stalin' statue has no place at the memorial to honor the brave men who DID have something to do with sucess at D-Day in Normandy.

Patricia Lewis,
The keeping of this statute is condoning the communism of the Soviets and that presence in the Virginia republic

Nora Dimitrova,

Michael Gray,
That blood-thirsty tyrant has no place in this hallowed memorial.

Robert K Severn,

Martin Putelis,
What organization had influence or who is the person responsible for the decision to place this bust here?

Jeffrey Gran,
Fascism and Communism: the two great evils of the 20th century.

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Kaarin Kolbre,
Stalin's horrific crimes against humanity disqualify him from any memorial in the National D-Day Memorial or any memorial in the free world.

Maggie,

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We citizens MUST stop the insanity that is taking place across this nation. Stalin's statue must go and so should those who made this devastating decision. I will forward this site to everyone I know to help make this happen!

Thank you for your part establishing this site!

Peter,
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Neil Pershall,
This statue has no place in the land of the free.

Kathy Fullenkamp,

Aiga Stokenberga,

Dennis H Levins,
U.S.M.C.- any more questions ?

Gail h. Britton,

Teresa Schnell,
Please remove the statue of Stalin... America is no place to have a statue of a Communist Leader.

Arlene C. Ryan,
The heritage of this magnificent country is now overtly under attack from an emboldened Left. To paraphrase the great William F. Buckley, it's time for us to rise up once again and stand athwart this revisionist history yelling 'Stop!'

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James Holcomb,

Kay Tatum,

George Pennell MSGT USMC RET,
Stalin was far more brutal than Hitler. Take him out of
the memorial!

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Jack D. Wheeler,

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Tomi A. Kaneshiro,

HARRISON LE,
STALIN, COMMUNIST LEADER IS CRIMINAL...

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Judy Jordan,
Why was Stalin added to the D- Day Memorial in the first place? Who is responsible for this insult to the allied troops? Disgraceful!

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Al Pipkin,
Including a statue of one of the most heinous dictators of the 20th century in a tribute to the real heroes of D Day would be a travesty to the memory of those heroes.

SuzanneHamlett,

Gerardine Reed,

Richard A. Kuehne,

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Joseph Franchella,
The murderer of more noncombatants than Hitler should not share space with men of honor.

Matthew D. Schuster,

Jose Gonzalez,
Honor our heroes,not the genocides who kill them

John Doan,
He signed the pact with Hitler to divide up Poland between the two of them. That encouraged Hitler to start WWII! Outrageous!

V&A Kalnins,
Discracefull to American troops and citizens

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Joseph Stalin was a mass murderer and should never be in any way venerated in any free country in the world, especially the United States of America, whose brave soldiers shed blood to bring his tyranny to an end.

Lya Karm,

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Professor David Koltick,
Let us not honor the man responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of innocent men, women and children .

Mikelis Kramens,

Toomas M. Sorra,

e. wirkowski,
He was the bigggest murderer in the modern history

Ilze Kancans,

robert hudgel,

Indrek Lepson,
Pull a Hussein on him

Darlene Gaebel,

Kristaps Kancans,

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Keep up the good fight!

roy glimore,

Aet Singer,
Systematic mass murderer Stalin at the D-Day Memorial in America? Beyond sick.

Monika Roose,

Ilze Bārs,
What's next, a bust of Mao at the Vietnam Memorial?

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Sophia Acierto,

Deann A. Megee,

Martins Roze,

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aaron zeigler,
my grand father, William F Bullock capt us army, went in through normandy and helped to free the peoples of western europe. he had many stories of occupied germany and the terrible treatment of thoughts under the control of the soviets. my grand father must be spinning in his grave at arlington at the thought of this horrible mans bust being placed among the memories of so many brave and worthy men. take this abomination back now.

Tom Hodges,
What a disgrace to have a brutal communist anywhere near a memorial honoring our brave young men.

mike verbois,

Nils Senvalds,

Thomas Gretchko,

Elisabeth B. Schuster,

Shannon Janson,
I am very very tired of this desire to try to make Stalin and the communists appear to be good. Stalin was no better than Hitler and should not have a place at the D-day memorial.

Beth Pershall,

Francis Donnelly,

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Stalin was a horrible dictator and murderer and should not honored for his brutality

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who the hell was responsible for this even being erected and put there????

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This statue displays more than just the Liberal's ignorance; it shows their cold hearts.

Marcis Jansons,

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What the hell does Stalin have to do with D-Day???

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The current President and his administration should be thrown out of office. This nation was founded on Christian priciples and it should remain that way.

Ilmar Vanderer,

Annie Nikovics,

Frank Nikovics,

Jim Hosking,

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It is disgusting to have a bust of Stalin at this memorial. Remove it immediately. What's wrong with these people?What is their agenda?They disgust me, too.

Monika Ormos,

John Noble,

Tho Dao,
Stalin should go to hell

jennifer Brookstone,
please remove the bust of Stalin at once

Tonu Bruns,
The basic concept of including Stalin is an abomination, and shows the sorry state of our schools' teaching of our history. There is NO factual basis for including the USSR in the D-Day assault on the German occupancy of Western Europe.

Ilene,

Tom Breedlove,
Thank you for your historical accuracy

Evelyn Tikenberg,

Ariel Judah,

Jack McFarland,

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Joseph Stalin was an evil person. He starved his citizens to the point they ate their own children. How dare anyone put up a statue of this evil Communist dictator anywhere in this country especially anywhere that honors the very men and women who fought to stop creeps like Stalin. Disgusting!!!!

Patrick Neid,
Hitler was an anti communist. Why don't we start putting up statues for his contributions. Worse still are the historic morons who agreed to this bust of Stalin. Have they no shame for the tens of millions that Stalin killed for sport?

Aleksander Einseln,

Mike Gordon,

Mariusz Szajnert,
To erect a statue to Stalin, the butcher of millions of innocent human beings people is just beyond any human feelings and understanding. Who will be next? Mao Ze Dong, Pol Pot, Castro or Hitler?

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Art Orkisz,

Martin Helme,
Stalin was a brutal murderer who enslaved half of Europe - exactly the oppsite of what was the goal of D-Day.

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How dare you spit on Americans that fought and died to keep this country free.

R Johnson,
I don't recall any Russians on Omaha Beach.

Tiina Kaia Ets,

Derek Carson,
whoever is responsible for the erection of a Stalin bust anywhere should be removed from any position of authority with the US government.

M. A. Deshotel,
What does Stalin have to do with the landing at Normandy? This is an insult to the memory of the very people this memorial is supposed to be honoring.

LMTPS,

Rob Strybel,

merlyn e. mcfarland,
The russians were busy on the eastern front. They did not hit the beaches with the allies.

Lise Kristiansen,

Carol Mann,

Guillermo,
Darkness cannot coexist with light.

Patrick Meadows,

Stephen Cooper,
Stalin's push was for the US to attack in order to draw off some of the troops hammering Russia. The memorial is for D-Day, not the entirety of WW II. Let's preserve true history.

Eric Sibul,

Robert Miller,
Our goal in WWII was to free. Stalin's was to save his totalitarian state and then enslave Europe. His image belong in trash pits in Eastern Europe, not at a memorial honoring the actions of heroes.

Janusz Rak,
Erecting a statue of a mass murderer responsible for 50 millions of human lifes (see Norman Davies "Europe") is a disgrace that can only be explained by, perhaps benevolent, but completely uninformed decision. Nothing can justify commemorating a psychopath who collaborated with Hitler in setting the World on fire, destroyed his own country along with many others and presided upon reign of unprecedented terror and atrocities. He stood against everything America stands for. Please remove this statue!!!

kay McKinney,

Andres Roometa,

Rod Wallace,

Benjamin Claggett,

John Trevathan,

Stephen C. Petrica,
The Soviet Union, as one of the Allied powers, ought to be recognized. Stalin personally, though, was a tyrant, and has no place being commemorated in the United States.

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Leonard Bird,

Linda Byron,
How dare someone place a bust of that genocidal dictator at the memorial. Did they not study history at all?

Imbi Paju,

Dr. Nicolai Popov,
The restoration of Stalin statues is crime in front of million victimes of Stalin terror. The reconstraction of Stalin name in Moscow subway (station Kurskaya) and planned his statue there is crime. Such actions are necessary for new dictatorial regime in modern Russia. Of course Stalin statue should be removed from the national D-Day memorial, Bedford, Virginia.

Eric Wayne Henery,

Gregory Sampson,

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Jerry Garland,
This is a travesty and cannot be permitted to stand. REMOVE THE BUST AT ONCE.

Linda Strup,
The D-Day Memorial was a lovely destination; a place of peace and honor. The decision to place Stalin's bust there was a gross mistake, but it can and should be rectified.

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To put Stalin's bust at the memorial is indeed a gross mistake. It's like a slap in the face to those who were there on that day.

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Stalin killed more people in the Gulags than Hitler did. to honor him is a groos crime against humanity.

Andres Kurrik,

Edward Subelj,

John Flaherty,

thomas meade,

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Please remove this statue - his place in history is assured in history books thru the attrocities he committed against innocent people - this statue is a direct affront to all who are decendents of those who died from actions and policies he condoned.

RIchard Jacob,

Kenneth Costley,
Remove the bust of the one of the greatest mass murderers of all times from the D-Day Museum

Peter Allen,
I have been planning a visit to the D-Day memorial with my family. Upon learning of the Stalin bust, I have postponed my plans for a visit until the bust is removed. I want to educate my daughter on the sacrifices that were made by her neighbors for her freedom. I have no desire to confuse her with a site honoring one of the most brutal and evil people this world has ever seen.

wjohnson,
D-Day should commemorate our brave troops. Period.

Talvar Tari,
6 misguided people on the board of the D-Day Memorial Foundation should not be allowed to rewrite history! Neither Stalin nor any part of the future Soviet Union took part in D-Day!

Donna Hamlett,
SHAME..

Linda Pajusi Halstead,

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Danuta Szajnert,

William Vician,

Peter Susi,
Please Remove Immmediately

Billy Williams,
The Soviet Union and its leaders had nothing to do with the sacrfices of american troops and other allies invading western europe during ww2. do not disgrace their selfless acts of freedom but adding the bust of the stalin to their memorial.

Ronald Penkala,

carlen vician,

Jurate Maciunas Landwehr,

Pia Levensteins,

Paul Duffy,

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Donald Strba,
Stalin murdered over thirty-million innocent human beings, and he had absolutely nothing to do with D-Day. Period.

Jerry Boudreaux,

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Susan Nash,
My father, Lt. Chester F. Mikulski, was killed at Utah Beach.

Steve Bezirganian,

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I can't not believe I even have to sign a petition for this outrage.

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How can we honor this evil man? My family has lost 7 members by his hand in Siberia.

Maija Riekstins-Rutens,

Rich Wolfe,

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do not dishonor our brave veterans. this is
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Vicky Hugo,

Emmi Bajars,
Don't glorify the deeds of murderers.

Jeffry Cook,

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We MUST STOP this kind of tribute that gives homage to those who would destroy human existence for sacrifice to their cruel agenda!

Simona Combi,
It is outrageous and shameful to honor a criminal like Stalin, who murdered millions of his own fellow citizens and millions more from the countries that feel under the Soviet Union's control. The United States cannot let this happen. It would stain the memory of those who fought for freedom.

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Removing this bust will be, not a revision of history, but an affirmation of democratic freedom .

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Robert Imreh,
This is the least ..., but a Victims of Communism Museum similar to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, the nation's capital is long-long overdue ...

Joe Megyesy,
This is an unbelievable affront to me as freedom-loving American born in the heart of the Cold War. The Russians had NOTHING to do with D-Day. More importantly, in the mass murdering department, Stalin makes Hitler look like an amateur--and we would never EVER let a statue of that man stand on our soil. This is a disgrace. Please take this monstrosity down.

Brigita Rumpeters,
This is a disgrace!

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Talivaldis V. Berezins,
He was a murderer.

Chris,
I cant support mass murder. Russians where not involved on D day

Richard A. Kolchin,
Stallin invaded Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Poland; he killed tens of millions in Ukraine; and he signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler. He became our ally only only when Hitler attacked the USSR.

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Of course they waited for someone like Obama to be persident before pulling this outrageous stunt!

Julia Munson,
He was responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people, though. Does that count?

Marc Poitras,

Ginta Litwinowicz,
Paying tribute to monster-killer!!?!!

Brian Magi,
The bust of Stalin should be removed. It is a grave insult to all the victims of Stalin and his regime. The bust should be destroyed and has no place any where in the world, let alone America.

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Charles Hoover,

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BUST this Bust!

charles c hartzell,
down with commies - including the current occupant of the White House

Paul Stroebel,

Jose L. Palacio,
This is an outrage. Who are these clowns?

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this is unbelievable to me that you would put a bust of Stalin. There are many American Veterans who should be recognized, not someone who is our enemy.

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Stalin never should have been included in the first place.

Steven Zeretzke,

Doan Viet Hoat,
I all upon the removal of Stalin bust

Anneli Room,
D-Day memorial is great, Stalin not!!!!

Aidas Skripkus,

Dana J. Massey,
The World Turned Upside Down.

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Dainis Martinsons,

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Jill Schreiber,
WAKE UP!!!!! And believe that your voice is effective.

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Dennis Beldner,
It is time we stand for liberty and freedom, please remove this statue. Stalins corruption cost millions of lives over decades. how can we honor that???

Linda Gordon,

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Fr. Joseph LoJacono,
This is outrageous that a mass murderer should have any memorial honoring him on American soil. It is a wrong against God and the values under which the United States of America were founded.

Kenneth F Flaherty,
The crimes committed under Stalin warrant the removal of this tribute, he was a mass murderer on an almost unprecedented scale!

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Dace Abeltins,
Unbelievable, what an OUTRAGE!

Karl Noor,
Stalin's KGB thugs killed my younger brother
in Dec.1944 in Tallinn Estonia. I demand that
the bust of this worst mass murderer of the 20th
century be removed immediately.

Juli Haller,
Stalin had people killed by putting them through meat grinders.

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Scott E. Bailey Jr.,
God Bless. Remember to not celebrate Stalins Birthday- I mean Earth day.

Ron Teed,

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In 1944-45 Stalin was given a free hand by western powers to continue a Communist genocide that went on to dwarf Hitler’s the sum of terrorization and mass murder of 20 million human beings. This uncomfortable truth is not taught in US classrooms. This is the only charitable explanation for including Stalin’s bust in this memorial. I suggest the bust of George S. Patton be used to replace Stalin’s. It was Patton who saw the criminal Soviet danger firsthand and sought continue the battle to free the nations that were illegally enslaved to communist control.

Robert M. James,
Honoring a genocidal psychopath at what should be a place of honor to our valiant war dead? Despicable.

William R. Hurt,
To display a statue of Stalin ANYWHERE in the United States is an abomination.

Don Beeren,

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William Alkire,
To honor Stalin in any way shows a total ignorance of history.

Vlad Wielbut,

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Derek Gray,
As a Veteran of OIF I find this as offensive as erecting a statue of Saddam at arlington! We the US Military defend freedom and tear down statues of dictators! Stalin was a brutal dictator and murderer and has no place being seen in a place of honor such as the D-Day Memorial.

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Gary M Ruttenberg,
Stalin murdered even more people than Hitler, although it was over a longer period of time. This statue is a disgrace!

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Stalin and Hitler were tyrants that murdered millions of innocent people; they do not deserve to be honored in any way. The Holodomor in Ukraine was Stalin's creation that killed millions of people (they slowly starved to death because Stalin ordered soldiers to take away their food) during 1932-33, and that was just one bloody episode of Stalin's reign. And I, too, do not recall the Soviets playing any part in the D-Day and Normandy landings.

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John Satchell,

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Stalin is the greatest mass murderer of the twentieth century. He should not be honored in any way

Ron Smith,
Revisionist history in any context is abhorrent to the sensibilities of all free thinking people and must be stopped.

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This is getting to be too much! This is an insult to all who died protecting the rights of the living Americans. If anyone cares, write to your congressmen and to the town of Bedford, VA and tell them to TEAR DOWN THE ABOMINATION!!!!

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Milvi Gornischeff,

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Seize the statue....Bust the Butcher!

Robert L Kelly III,
Read the "The Forsaken" and see what this monster did to our pilots and soldiers. Ask the Poles about Katyn forest.

jan humble,

David Scudder,

Mara Kore,

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For anyone doubting what Stalin stands for I urge reading "the black book of communism" by Stephane Courtois, et al, Harward University Press, ISBN 0-674-07608-7. Gruesome photos included.

Todd Wolf,
The rationalizing relativists who honor the dishonorable are absolutely irrational useful idiots. Show some respect for those who have earned our respect and remove the Stalin statue from this hallow ground.

Tho Dang,

Bao Luu,

Mike Kanney,
Take down the bust of a brutal dictator that killed more than 500,000 people, it's a disgrace to have it in the U.S.

Andrea Czarnecki,

Jo sullivan,
Absolute disgrace to have a wilful murderer honoured. Scum of the earth, i hope he's burning in hell.

JOAnne Anderson,
Unbelievable!

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Tiina Page,

Angela Tlustenko,

Theodore Byers,
This WWII vet says "Take the butcher's statue down!!"

Ollie Hadfield,

Rita Murray,

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Mark K. Cleary,

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Liis Uprus,

Sarah M. Estelle,
Never forget the victims of communism, especially those today!

Denise Coughlin,
I have family who were sent to Siberia. I have an Uncle who died in the Katyn Forest...please do not let Stalins bust be displayed...

Heili K Dungay,

K. Sermat,
The very idea of including Stalin here is absurd and dangerous.

Aivars Bars,
It truly is a shame that the biggest murderer in modern history is still so revered...remove the bust NOW and let people become educated!

Jan,

Svetozar Dimitrov,
A US memorial honoring Stalin -- this is an affront to all the victims of Communist terror around the world!

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Josef Stalin was just as evil a man as Adolf Hitler. I cannot believe we would be celebrating him and his lack of contribution to the Allied Invasions on D-Day.

Lawrence W. Reed,
What an incredible insult. Please, no tax-funded statues in America to honor mass murderers anyone complicit in the crime of starting the Second World War.

Alide Forstmanis,

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Kevin Kokernak,

william edwards,

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Arlen Stark,

Reena Kapoor,
This is a horror and such an insult to all those who have died fighting for freedom all over the world!

Elizabeth,

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Daina Lazdins,

martin luud,

Lembit Beecher,

Steven W. Dulan, Esq.,
Both of my grandfathers served in WWII combat. Including this statue of a communist dictator dishonors their service.

Carol Johmann, Ph.D.,

Mikko Laakso,

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Astra Brod,

Andrew Kumor,

Wyatt Nelson,
If you want to have a statue of Stalin, don't forget Mao and Hitler! All mass-murderers deserve equal recognition.

Jay Wexler,
Stalin deserves to be remembered for what he truly was, a man as evil as Hitler himself in his opposition of rights, life, peace, world order, and humanity as a species.

Pekka Virkki,
As a secritaire of the excecutive board of Finnish territorial restitutioning and anti-totalitarist association, i can't do anything else but sign the claim.

Stephen Pugliese,
Take it down!!!!!!!!!

Jaan H. Lutter,
I find this Stalin statue abhorrent !

Frank Parker English Democrats,

rachel gunther,

Tim Starr,

Konrad Nowotarski,

Abelardo A. Tous-Mulkay,
Utterly disgraceful, one more proof that our country is bursting at the seams...if we let them.

Aleksandar Malinov,
45 years of commism was enough

Emese Latkoczy,
Stalin was an undisputed mass murder responsible for the death of tens of millions, the virtual enslavement of Eastern Europe. How it could occur to anyone in the United States to honor him in any capacity if beyond comprehension.

Elena Sokolova,

Robert Joseph Chiarini,
I am a vet with a disability received while serving in the Army. Many vets have much more serious wounds then myself.Please do not let that statue take its place along side the real heroes.

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Michael F. Turchetti,

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I do not want the Statue of an murderer, dictator at anywhere in the United States.

Helga del Castillo,

Andrejs Baidins,
Stalin or the Soviet Union have nothing tp do with D-day. If Stalin had not concluded his pact with Hitler, D-Day would not have been necessary, and no lives would have been lost!

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Anita Morvant,
My family suffered while he was in power and millions of others do we see statues of other mass murders like Hitler no!!!!

Erik Seligman,

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I am a proud citizen, against communism, Stalinism, and against the destructive forces trying to stand in the way of the fundamentals of our nation

Michal Olszewski,

Brian Pombo,

Dr. Levan Z. Urushadze,
WE MUST REMOVE ALL STATUES OF THE BLOODY SOVIET DICTATOR STALIN FROM ALL PLACES OF THE WORLD!!!

Beth Bell,

Aivars Osvalds,

Peteris Blumbergs,

Lisa A Thrun,

ALLEN C. GUELZO,

Janet McIndoe,

Stephen Hicks,

Valdis Liepins,

Kyle Ritter,

Victim,
-The biggest murderer in human history
-My country was occupied by him, even though we were trying to be neutral
-He should receive absolutely no respect from anyone due to his crimes against humanity; it is very disrespectful to have a statue of him to anyone that is European

Lexis Alexander,

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Michael Strong,
Stalin was one of the most evil people in the 20th century; it is absurd to have his bust at this site.

Matt T. Einseln,
REMOVE THE STALIN STATUE !!!

Jerald Terwilliger, National Chairman American Cold War Veterans,
As a Cold War Veteran, I find this a disgrace and an insult to everyone in every country who fought against Communism. The murder of millions of people has no place among true heroes.
He was a tyrant and a sore spot on the history of the world, his
actions are not worthy of even mention in the D-Day memorial.

John Suarez,
The man responsible along with Hitler in starting WWII with the invasion of Poland honored here? Not only is it a moral outrage but nuts.

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Alex Adrianson,

Lourdes Villanueva,
He is not a world leader. His example is not one to be followed.

Patrick T. Peterson,
glad to see & sign this petition.

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Stalin was an evil man

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Angela Baron,

Eugenio Zaffagnini,
This statue is a shame, an outrageous insult towards history, and first of all towards all the victims of this atrocity called communism. In Europe we used to think USA had more wits. Maybe the key word is "had".

Diane Cates,
As the grand-daughter of one of Stalin's victims I am vehemently opposed to including Stalin in a National Memorial. To do so would be a slap in the face to the families of millions of people who suffered under this communist’s monstrous “leadership”

Jonathan Davis,

Adam Janiczek,

Laura Kai,

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Stalin was not a heroe!!! He was a murderer!

Aija Erglis,

Vesna Sisko,
Stalin - the world's greatest criminal and murderer...a symbol of atrocity and human darkness.... Remove Stalin!

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Jan Strycharz,

Juris Lazdins,
Really?? Stalin in the National D-Day memorial .... Our men from Normandy to Alington just turned over in their graves!

Aramis L. Perez,
This memorial honors the sacrifices of so many to rescue Western civilization from totalitarianism. Hitler and Stalin were twin tyrants opposed to everything the D-Day Memorial honors. Although Stalin was indeed part of the Allied leadership, which is the subject of the sculptural group which includes his bust, we can do better than Roosevelt and Churchill did by excluding the Communist despot from the company of civilized statesmen.

Clark Leach,

Māris Lazdiņš,
On a day where all gave some yet some gave all, what exactly did Stalin do on the beaches of Normandy to warrant inclusion in the National D-Day Memorial?

I wonder what Maj .Winters, Capt. Nixon and the rest of the men from Easy Company would say to the inclusion of a barbarian like Stalin in a memorial dedicated to the heroism and perseverance demonstrated by them and many more like them on that fateful day in 1944.

Laila Pakalnina,

Baiba Ozols,
D-Day was about liberation. Stalin was the great exterminator. How can you put these two together?

Stelios Georgiou,

Daniel Mark Hayes,
A very disturbing develeopment indeed. God Bless USA from UK.

Nick Henderson,

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I am outraged that our Country would consider putting this statue near or around the D-Day Memorial. My Uncle fought on those beaches, many of our veterans did not come home from those beaches. Why? To fight against all this man stood for.
Judy Pepenella
Conservative Society for Action
www.csa-1776.org
csa.1776@yahoo.com
SILENT NO MORE

LaShanda C West,
Statues honors or pay tribute to heroes, Joseph Stalin cost millions to die under his rule. He caused human atrocities, thus thus he should not be honored and the statue should be removed.

Janne Vainio,

Roberts Rusis,
Stalin was a murderer

Sandors Abens,
This tyrant and early Nazi collaborator does not belong in a D-Day memorial nor any other monument celebrating freedom. Stalin's bust must be removed.

John Swayze,

Peteris Ans,
Since neither he nor Soviet forces were part of
D-Day in Normandy,Stalin's statue has no right to be there.

Susan Williams,
After having millions killed: I can;t believe this could be happening.

Luong Truong,

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I am luchy to survive his occupation in Poland, Warsaw I remember how harsh was that period. In my opinion. monument of Stalin should be placed in a display of the worst murderers who had ever lived on our planet.

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Viachaslau Bortnik,

Viesturs Petersons,

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We should never honor horrific dictators

Joe K,

William H Szych,
No bust or image of this vile butcher should ever pollute our land...he did more damage to more families than 10000 bp oil well spills

Jesse Schexnayder,
History must be restored!

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LEN PIPKIN,
STALIN'S REMOVAL

Margus Maidla,
He is complicated "hero", not D-Day hero, for some nations he is a massmurder... not a winner

Karl Talts,

John Griffith,
I cannot believe that it is up in the first place.

Tom White,
You've got to be kidding.

Iris Aira Bungs,

Donald Heath,
Hitler had more to do with D-Day than Stalin. To honor the men and women who fought and died for freedom, neither dictator should be chosen for recognition. It's obscene.

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Trevor Dane,

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philippe PEGUY,

David Dawson,
For a moment let's pretend Stalin wasn't one of the worst dictators in history, didn't systematically eliminate ethnic groups and advance the cause of communism. Yes he was an ally in the war--war can make for interesting bedfellows.

All that aside, Stalin had nothing to do with D-Day. He shouldn't be there for that fact alone, let alone the insult this is to all those who suffered under his oppressive rule.

federico,

Boris Zemtzov,
Come on guys, even the Soviet Union trashed all the Stalin statues throughout the empire after he died, aside from a couple they left in his hometown in Georgia. What, Bedford is going to display what Novosibirsk banned? Get real!!

Leons Gudrais,

Marite Melnika,

Zurama Johnston,
I'm a communism survivor and I know that stalin killed over 50 million people. Remove his statue!

David Lepinoy,
Really? You're kidding right? RIGHT?

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Stephen Shelby,
Almost unbelieveable. But inevitable, since most Americans do not have a firm grasp of the history of WWII and have not suffered under Stalin's regime.

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Time throw the Socialists,Marxists & Communists
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Silvio Bär,

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Sarah Flamminio,
Please remove this statue. Its creation is a disgrace.

Matt Lyons,

silja Pukitis,

Tamara Rusis,

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Anita Vārsberga Pāža,

Maris Sants,
Under the regime of Stalin both of my grandfathers were killed, one of them because of the 'crime' that was formulated like 'person of Latvian nationality' . IF STALIN IS THERE , THEN HITLER MUST BE THERE. AND SADAM HUSAIN.

Arnis J Kuplins, Lt Col, USAF (Ret),
Outrageous. What an insult to humanity.

Konstantin von Eggert,
It is an insult to the memory of tens of millions victims of communism to have a tyrant and mass murderer commemorated.

Lada Pastushak,

Bela Vizy Jr.,
What's next? A Hitler memorial?

Peter Lombardo USN,
I would hate to see the memory of my brothers in arms tarnished by a memory to this murderer.

Stephen Czerwinski,
This is an outrage. Get this murderous, Commie SOB's statue out of this sacred ground!

Göran Öberg,

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Arturs Irbe,
Whom you are kidding? There is no justification to have this tyrant and mass murderer even remotely mentioned in any capacity at the D-Day Memorial!

Andris Runka,
Ignorance is bliss. Facts, history do not matter to these elitist, liberal, feel-good progressives.

Chris Tran,
A statue, a bust of murderous tyranny like Stalin has no place in America, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.
Remove it now ! discard it now !

Donald Whitford,
This is a disgrace. Honor the true hero's, our men and women who fought and won.

Marcos Boronat,
The National D-Day Memorial is simply not the place for that bust, it honors rather than just recognizing him, even with a plaque below explaining the intent. So, if you want to recognize his actions during WWII, and not necessarily honor them, a plaque could have sufficed, not a bust.

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I'm a prior service Marine and object to the statue of Stalin being displayed at the National D-Day Memorial.

Dan Davidson,
Let the memories of criminals and murderers rest among the ashes and forgotten! Only Hero's deserve the honor of remembrance!

Odette Foster,
People died to stop what Stalin represents. Many Countries today continue the struggle (i.e Cuba ) This is a slap to family lost in the fight for freedom and the ones who continue it. How can someone be so oblivious to the World to make this choice.
Remove and respect.

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Siobhan O\'Connor,
It is really hard to believe that a Stalin statue would ever be considered here in America. Or anywhere else, for that matter! The guy was evil. Why make a statue of him? Statues are for the good guys! =)

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Mindaugas,
Utter ignorance and lack of WWII and later year understanding is the only justification for such idiocity.

Dr. Levan Z. Urushadze,
WE MUST REMOVE ALL STATUES OF THE BLOODY SOVIET DICTATOR STALIN FROM ALL PLACES OF THE WORLD!!!

Sherman Gray,

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No more sympathy to eastern atrocities!

John Kalnins,
He like the other butchers' of humanity has no place here.

Daniel Heflin,

Gaida Skulte,

Larisa Lazdiņš,

Denis Coakley,

Paul Pagliaro,
A mass murderer's visage should not be in an honored place!

Gusten Lutter,

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This man was responsible for the deaths of twice as many people than Hitler; making his death toll the second highest in history.

Logan Darrow Clements,
and Stalin MURDERED TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE...that is the more important point.

Leah Saxey,
Stalin was a horrible man. If you knew anything about him You wouldn't have even thought to have put a statue of him up, unless of course you are trying to say that what he did was was honorable. If you think he is honorable then you might need someone to take a look at your integrity.

My Chuong Tran,

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REMOVE IT! Don't let them rewrite history!

Rich Foor,
Not only was Stalin a genocidal murderer on par with Hitler, but Soviet forces had nothing to do with D-Day. That a statue of this nefarious despot is included in a memorial dedicated to remembering those who sacrificed their lives to end tyranny is absolutely appalling.

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I'm spreading the word to as many as I can!

Mark Long,
Outrageous & Unbelievable!

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Thomas Dwyer,

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Even worse than the subway stop in Paris, called Stalingrad

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Kristi Laar,
Stalin is as big a murderer as Hitler. Let's be absolutely clear: The inclusion of his statue is as shocking and vile as a celebration of Hitler. The tens of millions killed in Siberian death camps are turning in their graves.

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Stalin and his fellow Bolsheviks murdered more people -- 66 million - than anyone else in history. To honor him in USA is an outrage.

Maureen Miller,
Honoring this mass murderer is disgraceful.

Kelsey Gregg,
This is abhorrent.

Charles W. Henrichs III,
This misguided atempt is historically improper, morally offensive and profoundly insulting to those who died to oppose tyranny and preserve freedom.

Ivi Hall,

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This should not be a difficult decision. Please do the right thing and remove this bust.

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Stalin had nothing to do with D-Day. Having this statue is a slap in the face to those who were there. This statue is only there to enrage our brave men and women and those responsible should be FIRED IMMEDIATELY.

Dakota Nall,
A memoriam for those lost in the gulags would be more appropriate.

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Lyndsey Fifield,
There is no logical explanation as to why this would be allowed to happen in a thinking, remembering society. We are so much better than this.

Patricia Walsh,
Stalin was a mass murderer par excellence - he murdered more people than Hitler. It is a disgrace that there would be a statue of him anywhere in the USA let alone the D-Day Memorial. What are you thinking - or maybe you don't think.

Philip Miller,

Robert Burris,
Stalin was a murderous thug.

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Marcel Petrutiu,

Alla Shapovalova,

Mart A. Pihl,

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Linda Schmitt,
In the same way that clueless kids glorify Mao by wearing his image; the bust of Stalin will glorify communism in the minds of those who don't know better. Leaving it is just adding fuel to the fire of historical revisionists. It's up to us to set the record straight before it is to late.

Brigita Roth,
Stalins bust in the USA???!!! Who's idea was it ? This murderous thug has to be buried deeper than the oil slick!

uldis briedis,

Carrie Miller,
Sickening.

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Greg Gerig,
This "monument" is not just wrong, it's evil.

Verner Orro,
Please let us know who's idea it was to put Stalins statue on display, so we can ridicuel them, show their names as communist sympathizers and try to remove them from public life by all pssible means!!!

Aivar Kelt,
First - Stalin with Hitler as allies started the WWII when they took Poland and had victory parade together.
Second - What has Stalin to do with D-day other than his stupidity did cause D-day and many other bloody days?!
Third – Stalin’s crimes after WWII shouldn’t be tolerated.
If you find Stalin worthy, than Hitler and Mussolini would be great company to him.

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Conor Hartin,
Whose idea was it to give him a statue in the first place?

Robert Meintzer,
He was a megalomaniac!!

Richard Westhoff,
Send the petition to CONGRESS! All Members of the House are up for re-election in Nov.

Steven Nunes,

Riina Kindlam,

wantzu liu,

kadi kiks,

Lehti Keelmann,

Larry Catlin,
We don't support communism!!

Mary Forrest,

Chris Roberts,
Disgraceful.

Sandra Mednis,
What an atrocious idea to "honor" someone who was responsible for MILLIONS of innocents being enslaved, raped, tortured, murdered. How disgraceful to our country.

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Stalin was a very bad man, and should in no way be honored.

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Vita Kristovskis,

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If Stalins bust stays there, we might as well put Hitler there too.

HUNG-NGUYEN,
I am oppose that

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It is offensive to have a statue honoring a mass murderer.

Valery Valeriev Petkov,

Mary Michaelis,
It's unbelievable that we should want to honor such an evil man!

John Burke,
Honoring a mass murderer, and spitting on the graves of his millions of victims, is no way to honor those who fought on D-Day.

Brian Hackleman,
I think a monster like Stalin should not be venerated on the National Mall.

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Jason Smart,
I find it to be offensive that a murder's statue is placed for all to see as a model. Please remove the statue.

Arno Randall,
What's next - statues of terroriists at Ground Zero?

Carlos,
This is disgraceful!

Cathy Tyler,
We have plenty of real American heros - our founding fathers to name few. Stop the admiration of tyrants.

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Don't forget Finland! We had two war against Stalin's Soviet Union!!

Iivi A. Masso,

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Stalin was original ally with Hitler and attacked to Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Thousands was sent to the Soviet concentration camps.

Heino Nurk,
Why is he USA fighting against the weapons of mass destruction and honoring mass murderers???

David Levenstam,

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Whoever thought to put up this bust of Stalin just doesn't know their history---and I mean ZILCH! If they did, they would know how horrendously stupid the idea is. But this is America after all, land of the history ignoramuses---even their own!

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Remember winter war? Stalin was attacker not war hero!

Michael Herzberg,
What an affront to all the victims of Stalin's terror, as well as everyone who died fighting international communism, or was the victim of it. When it comes to holocausts and genocide, Hitler was a mere piker compared to Uncle Joe. This is utterly disgraceful!

Joona Vainio,
Uncle Sunny started the World war in alliance with Nazi Germany. The statue is an insult to those who fought for their and others' freedom.

Reet Marten Sehr,

Alexander Kirov,
In the beginning of the war Stalin was Allied troops enemy, after the war too. He is responsible for more victims than Hitler. Starting with the polish officers in Katyn - around 22 000. In the memory of polish military forces who participated in D-Day you should remove the statue.

Göran Lindblad,
Rapporteur to the Council of Europes Parliamentary Assembly on the Crimes of Communism

Sandra Hammel,
Stalin was a monster who killed his people in order to subdue them. We want to honor this killer? You have got to be kidding!!!!

Ilze Urbane,

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Please remove the statue, stalin didnt do anything for the d-day and respect the memory of Fin,Estonia,Belarussia and other countrys civils and soldiers who died fighting against russia due they tryed/conquered countrys... wake up obama!

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Uldis Grava,

Juta Nurk,

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stalin murderd more people then hitler. take it down!!

Taina Mertalo,

Talivaldis Kronbergs,

Joseph Rach,

Steven Cummings,

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Yet another wrong that must be righted!

Lauri Tarkiainen,

Kathleen Foley,

Girts Valdis Kristovskis,
Reimains of stalins murder's glory must be swept away!

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As with thousands of others I strongly oppose Stalin being represented at the D-Day Memorial.

Esaias E. Walker,
There were no Soviet troops landing in Normandy.

Elizabeth Gillanders,
How many insults does this society have to bear when it comes to our Liberty and our Love of this country. So many have died to give us the right to choose our path in life and our constitution has given us inalienable rights to pursue that path and our happiness. Joseph Stalin has no place in this free society to be honored as he stands for all that is agaiinst what America believes and Stands for. If those who choose to honor this type of leader than I think it is time for those individuals to look elsewhere in the world, where they will be welcome. They are not welcome here in America where we honor and cherish our freedom and the liberty to decide for ourselves our destiny.

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Guillermo Garcia,
la sociedad marxista es cerrada, por tanto dictatorial, stalin le toco ser uno de los peores asesinos

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Bob & Lyn Doyle,

Damien Stirling,
Unbelievable. Stalin should be remembered for his huge attrocities. Having his bust at the D-Day Memorial is an insult to the many who gave their lives to end Hitler's evil plans for the world we live in.

Alicia Boland,
The p;lacement of a statue or bust or any representation of Stalin in this country is very offensive and it needs to be taken down.

Silvija Aprans,
It is a travesty that the bust of a mass murder resposible for 20 million deaths would be honored in any memorial in this country. What are we thinking?

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Tear it down!

Ilvi Cannon,
Whose idea was it to include Stalin's statue in the memorial? Please give that person a book on the history of World War II.

ausra tartter,

Sam Rennie,

Ruta Furmonaviciene,

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This is another progressive ploy.

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I would like to know who's idea it was to put it up.
Take it down and destroy it.

Mary Krutulis,
Honor FREEDOM and eliminate the bust of a man who never supported freedom, but seized the opportunity to establish a totalitarian state!

Jill Mayfield,
Take the mass murderer away from the memorial to our dead heroes.

Girt Kundzins,
You are paying tribute to a mass murderer. Thousands of U.S. families have relatives who were affected by this monster.

Edvins Puķe,
Remove The Stalin Statue From The US National D-Day Memorial!

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Do you plan to HONOR these men? Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito???????? What is wrong with our country?! Stalin was an dictator, he was responsible for the horrific murder of millions and we are honoring him with a statue at a memorial for D-Day? Give me a break! Take it down!!!!

Kalle Mikkola,
Stalin murdered as many innocent people as did Hitler.

Nicole Tribble,

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Traitors! In winter war Roosevelt sent airplane petrol and war materials to the Russians and helped them by buying Russian gold with high price. What else we have to expect from communist america? Fucking traitors!!!

Donella Spencer,
I am saddened and yet somehow not that shocked, that we have come to this, in the US.... that some idiot would actually think it was ok to put up a statue of Stalin, or anyone LIKE Stalin, especially at a WWII Memorial!!! what a disgrace to the veterans of our country that fought AGAINST everything this man stood for, and what a horrible thing for the survivors of those he brutally murdered! and... what on earth did he have to do with D-Day!?!

Horvath Laszlo Janosne,
Please show some respect to the millions of victims around the world and remove the Stalin bust.

Brian Tribble,

Girts Kaugars,

Eugene Pope,

Paul Barbins,

Thomas Sawyer,
This mass murdering tyrant had nothing to do with D-Day, so he does not need to be there, even as a bust.

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No USSR support on the beaches for D-Day. Eastern Front was their Area of responsibility. NOT A "GREAT" LEADER. Spread communism, and it is heavily debated that he may have killed more Russians in the establishment of communism than the war took. You WILL NOT be allowed to skew the truth.

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How could you allow this to happen?

Timothy Lutter,
2nd generation Estonian American here. Tear this thing down.

Michael Davis,
Remember Katyn, the Gulags and the other countless atrocities!

Egils H. Krolls,

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Stalin has no right being in any memorial that deals with liberation.

Rasma Rozenberga,

Marian Pospieszalski,
One may not honor the sacrifice of the soldiers fighting on the Eastern Front during WWII with the bust of their tormentor and one of the greatest mass murderers in the history of twentieth century.

Lu Lan,
Removing this bust is to show respect for the sacrifices of our WWII heroes.
Stalin crimes was committed not only in the Soviet. He was responsible for the death of hundreds of millions innocent lives, including the Vietnamese.

Steve Eilers,

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It is an insult to include a mass murderer and torturer among heroes

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Peter Schutz,
We keep the bust of Stalin and send the bust of Churchill back. What is wrong with these people!!!

Tony Hicks,
Aside from having nothing to do with Operation Overlord, Stalin was a war criminal (Katyn forest massacre, german POWs), murdered tens of millions of his own people, and subjugated half of Europe following WWII. He also erected the Berlin Wall. Why on earth would anyone want to honor this man, especially in a memorial to the brave allied troops who sacrificed all for freedom???

Stanislaw Kwiatkowski,
A bust for the personification of the opressive state.

Nancy G. Davies,

George McKay,
Stalin was Hitler's ally, they carved up Poland, only when they quarrelled did he turn to us.k

Lily,
Stalin murdered more than Hitler.

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Mary Peterson,
unbelieveable!!

Wade Noble,

Doris Shields,
We don't want ANY of that ILK over here in the USA

Brian K. Petty,

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Phuoc Huynh,

Steve Foerster,
Without the Soviets, it would have been very difficult for the Western allies to defeat the Nazis, and no one should minimize their sacrifice. But for one thing, Stalin was a genocidal maniac, so if the Soviets were to be represented here it should be by honoring someone else. And for another thing, D-Day was in the Western Front, whereas the Soviets were the Eastern Front. If it's a D-Day Memorial, Stalin must go.

Jon Covert,
We don't honor dictators that have killed millions to forward their socialist agenda

Christopher Dundas,

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Time to go, pull it down with cables

Georgina Zayas,
As with thousands of others I strongly oppose Stalin being represented at the D-Day Memorial, Not in America he is not what we're about.

Brian,
This is absurd, even by Washington politician standards. You do realize how many of his own citizens he murdered, right?

Ineta Ilgunaite,
Stating with Lenin, Stalin, Breznev, and their followers the Russians murdered more innocent people than any other force in the history of mankind. Stalin's Statue? I can't fathom, how that's possible!

MD WALLS,
WHO decided to do this?

William Dean,
One wonders who the real enemies of this country are--Islamic Jihadists are just a small blip on the national radar screen. The real enemies are the assholes who want this execrable dictator displayed in "The Old Dominion State."

Odi Melo,

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Mahlon Meyer,
My Grandfather was a combat engineer that went ashore in a higgins boat during the first amphibious assault wave on Omaha Beach. He did not fight the German National Socialists so that a Soviet Marxist Socialist tyrant could be honored. This is insulting to the memory of all free men that answered their nation's call to liberate the world from the yoke of national/international socialist totalitarians. The bust of Stalin dishonors my Grandfather's memory and must come down.

Jimmy Liao,
Why Stalin and not Hitler? Adolf had more to do with DDay and commemorating him has as much taste as commemorating the bloodthirsty dicator from the USSR.

bob greenfield,
You can publish my city if you'd like.

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Ray Spitz,
Stalin helped start WWII, partitioning Poland with Germany. He murdered far more people than the Nazis. Its a damn shame that we had t ally with him to win the war. He doesn't deserve a place at this memorial

Anthony Viola,

J. Feinman,

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Remove the Stalin statue as soon as possible. Thanks.

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The world has gone nuts!!! This man deserves NO honors !!

Aleksandra Wilanowski,

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Charles Duckworth,

Jackie Ertz,

Carolyn Straughen,
Outrageous.

Antoni Heba,

Daniel Levy,
Would it be acceptable to raise a statue of Hitler in any Western city? No-of course. Stalin was just as bad, if not worse and this statue must come down

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Either get that comunist murder out of Washington or remove my father's name from the web site, P.S. take Barry Soetoro anong with the statue and send them back to hell.

R J Del Vecchio,

James Howson,
Fuck off Stalin you cunt

Thomas M. Walsh,
Shame on those who put Stalin in the memorial.

Liga Berklavs,
The stalin bust must be removed

Jeffery Pelham,
Remove that Scum from our monument.

David Thomson,

Ioan Lightoller,
The LAST place a statue of Stalin belongs is a WWII memorial in this country.

Milton Cross,

Marquis Crocker,

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Michael Spurlock,

Eric Scheidhauer,

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Stalin murdered more people than Hitler, he deserves no statue in America

Walter S. Measday IV,

Frances Hadden,
Honor the veterans of D-Day by removing Stalin's statue.

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James Elliott,
Unbelievable. Why was this mass-murderer's bust ever considered for this memorial in the first place??

Robert Jones,
Please do not honor this goon with a statue at the D Day Memorial.

JANIS VITOLS,

Constantin Dragomirov,
this is simply shame on whoever made this decision and current administration

Ron Smith,
Sad that progressives would tarnish our history by honoring their comrade in this fashion. Even sadder that we would suffer these fools with a petition rather than tear the damned thing down ourselves!

Supplanting Churchill's bust with Stalin's is obviously part of the "change" progressives "hoped" for.

Anne Grosvenor,

Chris Naron,

Chuck Dahmer,
Hit the road, Joe. And don'tcha come back no mo' no mo'

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Daniel C. Fisher,

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Don Rouze,
TAKE IT DOWN NOW

Oscar Comesanas,
It should not be there to begin with.

Dennis Fox,

Kristie Nanes,
You have GOT to be kidding. This must be a hoax! If true, think again and do the RIGHT thing!

Steve Head,
It is sad that the education level in this country allows this to happen. Human life meant nothing to him. He killed more of his own people than Hitler.

Carol Nowicki,
Whose idea was it to include a bust of this murderous abomination in a D-Day Memorial?? I'm surprised the same morons didn't put a bust of Hitler there also, since he's certainly connected to D-Day.

Brian,
What a dumb idea.

Sandra Cross,
As a proud U. S. Army veteran I have to sign this.

David E O\'Brien,
Russia had nothing to do with D-Day anyway. It's a disgrace to memorialize one of the most despicable, murderous criminals in human history on our soil. What could you have been thinking?

Nhan Vo,

John W Page,
To imply that Stalin had anything to do with the D-Day invasion is an outrage to the allied forces that fought and died at Normandy. The Stalin bust must be removed.

Richard Odermatt Jr.,

Jane Lockard,
Where do mall the idiots come from?!!

Josh Lutter,
A villain should not be honored alongside heroes. Stalin fought with the Allies as it served his own purpose, so history should recognize his contribution. However, his bust should not be in the D-Day memorial because 1) he did not contribute to the D-Day invasion 2) he doesn’t deserve a hero’s recognition for the contributions he did make.

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Chuck Fuller,

Robert K. Burgess,

Andrew McIndoe,

Stephen Southard,
Speechless.

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Please Remove the Stalin statue

Marcin Z. Gruszecki,
Remove it! Have you lost your mind?

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Take it down -- been there too long.

Jay Fallon,

Jay Williams,

Michael Shaden,

Frank Dlugokinski,

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vinh chau,

Julie Lequang,
Please remove that Stalin Statue. That is the insult to the whole United States.

Eric Giunta,

Joe Mariani,
How many Russian troops hit the beaches on D-Day, anyway?

Tamas Bako,

Kerin Balyeat,
Insanity in the purest form!

anh nguyen,

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Mark Wheatley,
This is outrageous. The Russians had nothing to do with the Normandy Invasion. Remove Stalin's bust nnow. Mark www.americafightingback.com

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We don't need his statue we have the original in DC...

Maureen Tusty,

Kita,
Stalin is a slaughter murder. Please remove his statue from everywhere in the world immediately

Richard Van Den Akker,

Leikki Hess,

erictran,
remove the stalin statue at the national d - day memorial .

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It's okay to remove a bust of Sir Winston Churchill but one of mass-murderer Joe Stalin stays in place? What is wrong with this administration??

Vilnis Blums,
Stop insulting those who fought on D-Day, and the millions who died under Stalin's brutal regime . Take it down NOW.

Tomas Pavelka,

J. Wiebeck,
No statue for such a brutal, sadistic evil, immoral murderer of 60,000,000.

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This freedom hater and killer does not belong there beside our Heros

Erik Laar,

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Killi,

David A. Borders,
This is an absolute disgrace! The person(s) responsible for this statue should be ashamed! If this murderer's likeness is allowed to stay, the day will come when we come and knock it down!

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Anne-Liisa Sarapik,

Lynn Cardarelli,
Stalin had nothing to do with the invations with D-day. No Soviet troops were lost on the beach. History should not be re-written in this way.

Andrea Kivik,
Despicable. Absolutely despicable. Stalin does not stand for any sort of glory, during or after his lifetime, and the millions of people he killed. Get that bust out of there.

William Fabrizio,
Stalin had nothing to do with DDay, therefore his statue should not be part of the memorial.

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keith baxter,
Not Stalin, nor any other brutal dictator.

Jason Baer,
Stalin was an even more despicable man than Hitler, and we don't exalt Hitler for the technological advances made under his administration... cuz it's just dammned innappropriate. 'Nuff said.

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I would urge the trustees of the memorial to remove the statue of Stalin and commemorate, if at all, the average fighting man of the Red Army who fought against Hitler.

Wynn Tran,
Stalin was a war crime who had killed a lot of innocent people.Please remove Stalin Bust from D-Day Memorial in Bedford (Virginia).

benjamin ferguson,

Warren W Jarog,
Russia's contribution to the war effort did not include any participation in the D-Day heroics.

DCatherine Y. Smith,

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Andres Simonson,

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Fermin Meabe,

Lisa Green,
Even though D.C. appears to have gone Communist, us Small People in flyover still revere our veterans.

Peter Ragauss,

Elizabeth Spalding,

Milford L. Herrick,
It is totally unacceptable to include a mass murder whose crimes exceed even those of Hitler.

Nguyen Thi Ngan Trang,

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In respect of those who suffered @ Stalin's hand

Juris Mezinskis,
History can be told without a statue to a mass murderer.

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shannon bruzelius,

Larry Mangan,
It's clearly not a 'most prolific killer of his own people in the history of the world' monument! Get that subhuman out of there!

Robin DeAngelo,
Pure lunacy! Someone needs their head examined! Next thing you know we'll have a bust of Osama Bin Laden at the 9/11 Memorial! What is this world coming to?

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I didn't think the Russians were involved in D-Day.....WTF
It needs to be stomped on and spat on, and on those who even suggested it!

Nguyen Thu Ngan,

Mike Irwin,
Stalin murdered more innocent people than even Hitler. That disgraceful bust is a slap in the face of so many millions of Americans who died, fighting so that others may live in freedom.

tiia Rettig,

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I am signing this because I love my country. I hope those receiving this will want to act on it because they do also.

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Col (Ret) Tyler Slocumb,
The Russian people deserve a better representative than Stalin for their sacrifice during WW2.

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Reet Pikksalu-Merlin,

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Lance Smith,
Our DDay memorial is no place for a mass murderer.

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Remove The Stalin statue from The National D-Day Memorial
Please.

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Remove The Stalin statue from The National D-Day Memorial
Please.

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Marija,

elena Artimovich,

Joseph G. Hogan,
This man helped start WW2, and killed more people than Hitler. NO!!

stephen heins,
this statue must be removes. Stalin was a montser., who murdered millions. who are the idiots that wld even put such a statue at our honored WW2 vet memoreal... we shld give then a stalin style send off.

Dintris Vallis,

GySgt. M. Jones,
He has absolutely NO right to be there!

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Kadri-Ann Laar,
Unbelievable lack of judgement and ignorance.

Giang Le,
Sure, the Stalin bust must be taken down.

Tõnis Laar,
Excrement must be removed.

Elizabeth S. Tompkins,
Historical detail is important. To include Stalin is to dilute the validity of the D-Day invasion. Britain, Canada, Free France resistance and most especially the United States, bore the burden of that bloody day.

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Stalin was a murder so please do not build his statue.

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Unbelievable!!!!!!!

Biruta Cap,
Are the members of the D-Day Foundation of Bedford, VA grossly ignorant, subversive, or want to squander public funds while insulting the public?

Aili Sarapik,

Tom Vo,
Pls remove Stalin

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If you do not understand why this statue must come down read the history of what this BUTCHER did to millions in his country, also read your history of the non agression pact.

JOHN PFAFF,
this murderer needs to rot in hell.

Anhtu Lu,

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Tran Tu Thanh, Prisoner of Conscience, Chairman, the Central Coordinating Council, VN Nationalist Pa,
Please, remove this horrible bust and dispose it in the trash bin. Enough is enough!

Jeffrey England,
It is absolutely absurd that anyone could even consider this.

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Tarvo,
How could anyone honour an orchestrator of mass genocide, in of all places, not Russia but the USA?!!!

Patrice Kelly,

Jim Bryan,
My father, 1st Lt. George E. Bryan, was in the 29th Inf, 116th Reg., who hit the beach on the first wave. He didn't talk much about it, but never trusted the Russians.

Nghi xuan Nguyen,

kenneth a morris,

Anne Darnell,
This is outrageous! This is a disgrace, and a slap in the face to all the veterans of D-Day.

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Stalin was demonic. Put that on the plaque attached to the sculpture that should be promptly thrown in the dump.

George Patkos,

John Thomas,
Stalin was one of the greatest mass murderers of all time. We should have let Patton invade Russia and free the Russian people when we had the chance.

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Macintosh should be ashamed of his abject ignorance of history. He and the other "useful idiots" on the committee who voted approval must be removed with dishonor.

Jerry Crosby,

dang qui,

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Remove the War Crime,the Devil in the World Please

Chris Maehara,
Just remove the statue of Stalin.

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Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot are responsible for the deaths of literally millions. Stalin probably murdered around 60 million Russians. Stalin should not commemorated; he should be vilified.

Neil Strawbridge,

Lora Ristaino,

Erik Blums,
The only appropriate place for a statue of one of the worst mass murderers of history is a scrap heap!

MSG Robert Jester, USA, Ret,
Bust the bust.

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Communism is not welcome at ANY US memorial. Please remove this atrocity. You are achieving your goal of slapping true patriots in the face and I am disgusted and ashamed to know someone calling themselves Americans would not only allow something like this, but condone it.

Nina Nguyen,
Stalin = TERRORIST

Toivo Paavle,

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Please remove ASAP this bloody STALIN STATUE. Thank you!

Tiit Löhmus,
It must be taken away

Ralph Carson,
Why should we honor this man who was just as evil as Hitler?

Ted Crammer,
Stalin was a mass murderer. His likeness has no place at the memorial.

Kriss Ligers,

Roberts A. Kengis,

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Stalin didn't send his troops to Normandie on D-Day !! He is a Killer.He has no place within the heros .

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Frieda Harvey,

tuyet ngo,

HOA BUI,
This is Statue of Communist Leader. Remove please!

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Dane Partridge,

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REMOVE THE STALIN right away, Stalin and HO CHI MINH and MAO TRACH DONG are MURDERS

Brian Spadora,
Honor the brave veterans of D-Day without sullying their memory by paying tribute to a genocidal murderer.

Van thinh Tran,
He was kill a lot of peogle....

Martin Krumins,
If the people responsible for this do not remove the likeness of Stalin, it will ensure that neither I nor my family will ever visit or support the city of Bedford

Dagnija Stasko,

NGIA NGUYEN,
PEOPLE HAS TO STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT AND CONSCIOUS

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tiina lehesalu,

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I don't want to see him anywhere

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Siiri Ling,

Edward Moore,

VU-NGUYEN,

Reed Bull,
Get rid of the trash ASAP!!!!!!!

John A Catchings,
This is but one more way to attempt a softening up of America towards the totalitarian idea. NO to this dishonor to our American heros!

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Erik thornton,

THO NGUYEN,
I do not agree to see Stalin Statue , a URSS Communist Dictator, stay with the others Heroes of WWII.

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No killer in our country, Please

O H Powell, MD,
This statue is an outrage!

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This is an abomination and insult to our greatest generation.

Thanh Le,

Märt Matsoo,

QUOC KHANH,
Stalin is a dictature and not a hero , more than he is a communist so he killed many people that's why I object this statue in France . He ca'nt stay beside together the GI soldiers who were dead for the liberty .

Ylo Anson,

Claire Garbade,
I don't understand what those involved with putting Stalin's bust at this Memorial were thinking. Has everyone in the USA lost all sense of what's right and wrong?

Kay Purin,

Charles Busch,
Stalin was a monster. He did not support D day, the Russian soldier did.

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Stuart Keating,
National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia, is to “honor the valor, and sacrifice of Allied forces on D-Day. Soviet forces were not involved the D-Day landings at Normandy, REMOVE Stalin

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I 'm agree Jseph Stalin has no place at the National D-day Memorial in Bedford Virginia .Because he was a killer

Sandra,

Thomas H Pearman,

loc chau,
The Stalin bust must be taken down

David Corbett,
Why was his statue ever put there???

Gerald Fontenot,
Get rid of it.

Karl Petersen,

Nancy Allen,

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Jeff Michael,

Dao Tran,
He killed many innocent people, he does not deserve our respect, instead he would be cursed by the whole human kind.

Sandy Garst,
Remove Stalin's bust. It does not belong in a memorial to our heroes.

Gvido Auzins,

Kalju Mätik,
According to the Estonian Repressed Person´s Registration Bureau (the data are incomplete; the work is going on) the Soviet occupational and repressive authorities condemned to death and executed 3,484 residents of Estonia during Stalin´s reign.
A further 8,176 inhabitants of Estonia have been identified who were either executed in Soviet prisons and labor camps outside of Estonia or died as a result of inhuman conditions.
According to the report by V. Chebrikov, later head of the KGB of the USSR, the number of inhabitants of Estonia deported to Siberia by Soviet repressive bodies is 29,339. And all this took place when the number of the inhabitants of the Republic of Estonia was 1,134,000 in 1939.
Thus, the number of identified murdered and perished persons totaled 1.03% of the number of the population of Estonia in 1939, i.e. (before the reprisals of the occupiers) in addition to those 3.59% who had been deported to Siberia. This is equivalent to 4,680,000 Americans killed or deported. By way of comparison, let us now reveal World War II combat casualties of the armed forces of a few countries in percentage of the number of the population of respective countries in 1939:
USA 0.31
Canada 0.40
France 0.51
Finland (in Winter War) 0.65
Great Britain 0.80

The Stalin bust must be removed

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How could someone even suggested that Stalin should be honored.

Tom Nguyen,
Please remove the Communis out

Thien Huynh,

Kent Pruitt,
Stalin is just as heinous as Hitler and we don't have a bust of Hitler in the D-Day memorial.

Viet Nhi,
Stalin was a killer and dictator of history, we should not honor him in D-Day Memorial. Remove his statue.

Neal Kingston,
It is shameful to honor a mass murderer in this way.

Jevgeni Krishtafovitsh,

john hitchcock,
on behalf of my father and his 7 brothers who served in ww2

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Thai Nguyen-Khoa,
As a victim of communism that spread from the USSR to Ho chi Minh to Vietnam, I, in no uncertain terms, object to Stalin being honored on the D-Day landing at Normandie

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the bloodest of the bloodest

Kathy Fraser,

Bill Barnes,

Tauno Rahnu,

PHUOC LY,
Stalin was a mass murderer must be taken down

Anh Kiet Lu,

V. Bucens,
Those who have included a bust of the bloodiest dictator of the 20th century in the National D-Day Memorial need to have their heads examined.

Valdis Kalnins,
Wake up, America! Don't glorify murderers!

David J. Overman,
Having Stalin statue/bust at the D-Day Memorial is worse than having a Hitler statue/bust at the D-Day Memorial. As an Army Vetreran; I'm offended that it would even be considered appropriate to have the bust of such a murderous FOREIGN leader at a site commentorating OUR soldiers and dead from such a traumatic battle. The Soviets fought the Germans in WWII, but only allied with us because we were of value to them; not because they were our freinds.

Hoi Tu,

Bruce Majors,

Larisa Seitan,

Terri Sanislo,

Nguyen Huu Nghia,
No butcher!

Marsha Enright,
Any statue to this murderous monster is a travesty; to honor him for D-Day is beyond words.

Lucija Muehlenbachs,

Anna R. Dadlez,

indulis piziks,
This person was evil incarnate

Jeff Heurung,
Why would any American want a statue of Stalin in our country?

Jack Marino,
Take down that mass murdering commie from the land of the free. Only the leftist progressive think this evil should be honored. The fact that this mass killer had nothing to do with D-Day. Then this commie butcher never allow free elections in eastern Europe as he agreed to do at Yalta. FDR and the rest of those fellow travelers in our State Dept. allowed him to set up the iron curtain and enslave all of eastern Europe. Who are these damn Americans that came up with this idea and put this thing on our soil. The Russian people torn down all their statues of Lenin and this animal. The USA should have allowed Patton to go in there and blown his brains out. The world would have been better off with Stalin dead. However we have Americans in this country that are having a love affair with communism and they are entrenched in our Government ever since the 20s. Tear down this bust of this mass murderer just to honor all the people he killed.

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Next think we'll be honoring Hitler

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Whom ever had this statue put up there to begin with should be tried for treason!

daniel ulisses,
I am a first generation American. Both my parents are from former Yugoslavia. They lived a life of poverty and had family members die because of the communist government there. The world should not honor communism nor honor its most vicious killers.

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Melodi Westergren,
Recognizing a country's participation in WWII and honoring a genocidal murderer should be two different things. Also, this memorial was to emphasize the bravery of those soldiers on D-Day. Russia was not there. Russia is removing this man's image and we are erecting statues to him. Something is wrong with this picture.

Marje Lepnurm,
What were the people who erected the statue thinking??? Many of us were never able to get to know our grandfathers, grandmothers and other relatives because of this bloodthirsty killer!!! I thought statues were erected to commemorate the deeds of heroes not killers!!! Take down the statue and destroy it!

Anhtuan Lu,

Rostislav Gorchakov,
We fight against stalinists here in Russia - even in the worst nightmare I couldn't imagine that some day I would sign a petition to stop stalinists in the USA!

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Joe S. was nowhere near the beaches on D-Day. Stop being a communist and trying to re-write history.

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Remove ASAP

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Please remove the Stalin statue

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Where was Stalin or Russian forces on D-Day?
Why honor him?

Nguyen thi Be Bay,
Stalin is a murderer !

Andris Caunitis,
The bust must be removed. Stalin was responsible for horrors exceeding those by Hitler.

For a different point of view, below is an interview with the artist last year:

"Stalin sculpture depicts dark side of D-Day story

CHET WHITE/THE NEWS & ADVANCE (Lynchburg)

Richard Pumphrey, a Lynchburg College professor of art, has just finished his sculpture of Joseph Stalin for the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford. Pumphrey has created four pieces for the memorial with plans for two more in the near future. Stalin’s bust follows Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
By Justin Faulconer
Published: August 1, 2009
Updated: August 2, 2009

The hair is brushed back. The mustache thick and bushy. The eyes menacing.

An infamous face from the 20th century is coming to the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford.

Richard Pumphrey, a Lynchburg College professor and artist, has recently completed a bust sculpture of Joseph Stalin, the leader of the former Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953.

The reviled dictator is fourth in a series of Allied world leaders sculpted by the artist for display at the memorial because of their mutual opposition to Hitler’s Germany.

Pumphrey has finished bronzed busts of Winston Churchill, Harry Truman and Franklin Roosevelt — all now displayed at the memorial.

He said he hopes the Stalin sculpture will be installed later this year, by Veteran’s Day. His next project includes Clement Attlee — Churchill’s successor — and Chiang Kai-shek, who led China’s military.

Stalin stands out as the most notorious figure he said he’s had to create from clay.

“He was just a terrible person,” said Pumphrey. “So the challenge is to embody the terror he instilled.”

Though he hasn’t received any criticism personally, he said the D-Day Memorial Foundation has fielded public questions over the purpose of placing the Stalin bust on site.

He compared leaving Stalin out of the lineup of Allied leaders with not including Judas, the betrayer of Jesus Christ, in “The Last Supper” — a famous painting by Leonardo Da Vinci.

“He’s part of the narrative,” said Pumphrey. “We may not like Stalin, but if he had not challenged Hitler on the Eastern Front, then victories on the Western Front may not have been possible.”

William McIntosh, the memorial foundation’s president, said the intent is not to portray Stalin as a hero, but rather as an ally who distracted German forces and played a part in the timing and unfolding of D-Day.

“He’s a necessary addition,” said McIntosh. “He certainly was a fact of life and a major ally during the Second World War … there’s nothing about the presentation that’s going to be flattering of Stalin.”

McIntosh said the piece captures his “venomous energy — like a coiled snake ready to strike” — but at the same time is not a caricature.

Pumphrey, 57, was in his early years of college when he completed his first bust sculpture of a fellow classmate. As a Lynchburg resident for 28 years, he has sculpted many pieces, from religious symbols to portraits of children, professors and Martin Luther King Jr.

Working periodically in his basement studio, he said he usually completes two sculptures a year. He researches historical figures through photographs, which allow him to engineer characteristics like head shape, facial expressions, gestures, body mass and physical features.

The process requires developing “an intimate relationship” with the subject — and that proved stressful at times while working on Stalin because of his “heinous” personality. The dictator’s “dark side” was something he said he never had to create before.

“You do get to know these characters very well,” Pumphrey said. “I was angry every day I worked on him … 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.”

Kathryn, his wife, occasionally offers input on his sculptures.

“Sometimes I think they’re going just great and she’ll come down here and straighten me out pretty quick,” he said.

At one point during the Stalin bust she voiced her opinion that she didn’t think his eyes were sculpted in the right way.

“He looked too nice,” Kathryn said of earlier versions of the bust. “When I saw the final product, Richard definitely captured the eyes. They are a little bit more sinister.”

Pumphrey receives commissions from the memorial foundation to work on the sculptures through donations, he said.

McIntosh would not name the donor for the Stalin bust, referring to privacy issues since it has not been installed or dedicated yet. He did say it was an individual, and funding has been secured.

“We don’t do anything until we have the money in hand,” he said. “It’s money that came from a designated place that has a certain purpose.”

The minimum costs for the four sculptures so far is ,000 each, McIntosh said. It covers Pumphrey’s commission, the pedestal to place it on, a plaque and future maintenance.

The first bust was installed in 2008, several years after the memorial announced it was debt free. The donations for the pieces help the memorial’s bottom line in a time when it struggling financially.

The memorial, which opened in 2001, is bleeding financially to the point that its leadership is urging lawmakers to declare it a national monument as one desirable avenue to avoid the prospect of closing.

The nonprofit has a .2 million yearly budget and pulls in about 0,000 from tours and ticket sales. The rest is generated through donations, which memorial officials said have suffered in the past few years because of rising gas prices and the downturn in the economy.

Pumphrey, who referred to the memorial as “a spiritual place” that impacts the quality of his work, said he has written Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and President Obama urging federal intervention.

“If this memorial were to not be recognized by the federal government as a national landmark, then it somehow I think would diminish the impression of respect this country has for those who fought that battle and who provided the turning point in the war,” he said.

Using a line from Picasso on which sculpture is dearest to him, he replied, “the next one.”

Will he miss Stalin?

“I’m going to be glad I’m not going to have to put my hands on him every day,” Pumphrey said."

The plaque beneath the bust reads “In memory of the tens of millions who died under Stalin’s rule and in tribute to all whose valor, fidelity, and sacrifice denied him and his successors victory in the cold war.”

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THANH NGUYEN,
HE'S A MURDER,KILLED VERRY VERRY PEOPLE

Kimberly M. Vu,
My parents had left everything behind and ran away from the communism for their lives twice. Please honor the Veterans of D-Day and Bedford by removing the stature of Stalin. He was a founder of comminism, a real killer. His statue does not deserve to be placed at D-Day Memorial

Tu Le,

Steven Nguyen,
Stalin was murderer . He was not a war hero . Murderer and war heroes can't to be same place . The stalin'statue must be remove .

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My father was one of the first soldiers to land at Normandy Beach. This dishonors him and the thousands of soldiers who fought and lost their lives to keep us safe. Get rid of this abomination and stop insulting our soldiers and the USA!!!!!

DUONG TO,

Philip VinhQuoc,

Joe Verran,

michael le,
A person who killed a lot of people is having no place at D-Day . Ho chi Minh learned from Stalin, and he killed a lot of innocent Vietnames while forming an inhuman communist government in Vietnam
This is a disgrace to the American people

Pekka Finn,
I will never respect any countries that celebrates man who attacked our country in winter war. To me these countries are communistic.

Valerie Michael,
Not only should there be a bust of Stalin, there should be no mention of him or any other Communists. History should not be rewritten.

David Emerson,
Pleases list all the Allied countries that fought with the USA equally on a very nice plaque. That's enough.

Ilze Anspoka,

Wanda McKelvy,

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Inclusion of Stalin bust is absurd. It is antithetical to the fundamental motivations for opposing Hitler, and in fact Stalin was nothing more than another version of Hitler.

Lynn Peterson,
WHO IN THE NAME OF MARS HAD THE BRIGHT IDEA
TO PUT A BUST OF **THIS** FILTHY INSANE WRETCH
IN A D-DAY MEMORIAL!!??

The Lord of War would send this perverted delusional and disgraceful maniac to the darkest coldest depths of Hades!!

Rhonda Garcia,

DANNY TRAN,

Linda L. Eskew,
it is my pleasure to have stollen removed,he was a murder and an torturer of many people

Robert Koons,

Hoan Ngo,
request to remove the statue of The Butcher Stalin from the D-Day Memorial immediately.

M. Le,

Frank E Scudder,
This butcher does not deserve to be honored alongside a memorial to our military heroes who gave the ultimate sacrifice in the name of freedom.

Ty Forde,
Stalin had NOTHING to do with D-Day. His likeness does not belong with our fallen heros.

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lisa m. filippi,
what the heck! time to destroy stalin, once again!

Bill Shirley,

Marlena Bagwell,
Since we cannot display a statue of Jesus or a Cross - NO STALIN

Gyl MIdroni,
Other than being history's biggest or second biggest mass murderer, this man is indirectly responsible for the imprisonment of several of my family members. Some who suffered at his regime's hands are still alive. Can your memory be so short. This is a disgrace!

J. Burbulis,
This is an insult to everyone who died and survived D-Day on the Normandy Beachs fighting for our freedom. This is Revisionist history of the lowest kind.

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Hoai Diep Ha Phuong,
Stalin, HItler, ho chi minh...are murderers - no place in a memorial for them

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stalin killed 17 MILLION russians. Will we have a bust of Mao next, he was pretty important.

Brian Lee Gnad,
My father participated in the D-Day invasion and I find the inclusion of Stalin in the memorial HIGHLY offensive! As I believe that he would have as well.
He was no fan of Communism.

Kaia Evert,
It must come down.

Tenno Andra,
…So, why don't we just start putting up statues to idiots and horrors like ted bundy, john wayne gacy and other serial murderers??? It woudl be "approximately equivalent" but STILL NOWHERE NEAR the LEVEL of horror, disgust and cretindom expressed (and created!!!!!) by "uncle joe" - and can we STOP referring to him as stalin" ?? He is NOT a "man of steel" and NEVER deserved that self-given appellation! CERTAINLY not now!!!!!!

Ho, Danh,
Josef Stalin must not be honored at the National D-Day Memorial. Please.

Ian Rose,

Dennis Ho,
Please remove the bust of Joseph Stalin from the ground of the Memorial for ever.

Sidney Tran,
Stalin belongs to the dustbin of history.

Bruce Paulson,

Carl Dorr,
Take it down for all those who gave all.

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I am appalled.

Thomas Partridge,

Debra Partridge,

BAOKIEM DAM,
SHOULD NOT REMIND US ALL NIGHTMARES CAUSED BY COMMUNISTS!!!

David Rosenthal,
Put Stalin's Bust on Obama's grave!

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It is appalling we give that kind of tribute to a murderer who starved twenty million Russians to their death all because they didn't go along with Communism. Disgusting and whoever is doing this ought to be considered a traitor in my opinion.

Hoang Thai,
Any communist country and its leaders has committed cruel crimes against Humanity, whether it's Staline, Lenine, Mao Tse Tong, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh ... None of these Humanity criminals must not be present at any place of commemoration unless we mean to promote their crimes.

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I don't think having a statue of a communist leader honors the ones who fell for our country, in the past or future. I don't know why anyone would consider something of this nature anywhere in the United States.

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Truman Hill,
It is a disgrace to have a statue of This person that had millions of his own people killed.

Mario Herbst,

Donald Kagle,

Duong,Nhu Thao,

Deanna Ortner,
Celebrating and commemorating mass murderers like Stalin, Mao and Hitler is an abomination to our foundations of freedom and justice. By upholding William McIntosh's decision to install the bust of a man who ordered the brutal deaths of at least 60 million people, incoming board chairman Robin Reed is endorsing Stalin's inhumaniy. Stalin's bust dishonors the memory of Stalin's victims and every American who's has fought or died for liberty.

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Stalin realy does not belong on a memorial of a liberation. Mass-murdered Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian people and destroyed their culture..
What's next ? A statue of Hitler?

Tõnu Loorpärg,
Karl Popper author of "The Open Society and its Enemies"would turn in his grave.If you learn the WRONG things from history about Tyrants you help to create them again.Is this memorial trying to represent/perpetuate "evil?"It should be about brave men who fought for a free and open society not the tyranny that Stalin,Hitler,Mao and other Dictators represent.GET RID OF IT!

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The Stalin mustgo !!!

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Patricia Anderson,
This is a disgraceful display of progressive reinvention of history.

John Getter,
This decision to erect a statue of one of the greatest mass murderers in history is beyond moronic. It is an abomination.

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THIEP NGUYEN,
Stalin is a world criminal

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ingrid scott,

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Duane Laible,
Are you people complete idiots?

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Nguyen,
I do not want to see the mass killer stand next to the heroes.

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he is murder

Jens Meder,
It's overdue.

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stalin is a killer , blood thirsty WILL NOT BE HORNOR to human. Please, please take his statue away from our Heroes. Thanks

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This statue should not and can not be standing next to all the heroes.

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Communist is a killer - It should not be present in the world!

Loan Do,

Arnold Garbade,

amanda dorr,
Please take it down for everyone that died for our freedom.

alan m tyler,
There is no room in America for a statue of this mass murderer, communist! Who on Earth, thought this was even a good idea?

Phi Ly,

Nathan Jolly,

Fara Wiles,
Please accept my appreciation for your prompt action to take down this bust.

Lac Tran,

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This murderer bust must be taken down.

Quan nguiyen,
-No reason to keep it in USA.

thai hai nguyen,

Daina,

John M. Koelsch,
The Stalin bust is at the Memorial because the Memorial Board believes in tyrannny not the freedom so many fought and died for.

Andrew Nguyen,
If the blood-thirsty Stalin is so adored by the Committee, why not build his statute along with Hitler's?

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Edith Morrison,
Stalin bust has no place at the D-Day Memorial.

SON N. NGUYEN,
Stalin is not worhty to being there.

Richard Raymond, III,
I'm glad I was persuaded not to smash the bloody thing to bits with a sledgehammer. The petition will be more effective.

Marcia Johansen,
This statue of Stalin does not belong there.

Take it down!!!!!!

Heli Telmet,

Rein Tammemagi,

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Bob Sandy,
This statue shows incredible bad taste for the National D-Day Memorial and is an embarassment. Stalin information could have been written into the war archive section, but never honored with a statue.

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Jeff Fleming,

M Quinn,
the leader of a government whose goal was world domination should be only held in contempt.

Eduardo Mitchell,

Leigh A. Conrad,
This bust of stalin should not stand, get rid of it!!, now!

Aili Petersen,

Ed Wennerstrom,
It must be removed

Joseph Moyer,
The placement of the Stalin bust is inappropriate and has no place in honoring our D -Day heroes

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Jennifer Morrison,

Hung Le,
Stalin was a murderer CAN NOT stay the same place with Heroes. His statue MUST BE REMOVED.

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down the communist named Stalin.

Alex Plaenk,
The statue must be removed it is a total disrespect to all the peoples of central and eastern europe who suffered under his rule . my dad fought the soviets in 1956 in Hungary and left the country because of stalinism, its a shame to the idea of freedom that his statue is raised.

Gregory Kowerda,

Donald E. Fink, Jr,
Stalin was a murderous dictator who played both sides in World War 2. He signed non-aggression pacts with Hitler to get access to Poland. He attacked the Finns and murdered thousands of Russians. He had NOTHING to do with D-Day. His bust has NO PLACE on the hallowed ground of the D-Day Memorial.

Beau Tanner,
Unbelievable!!! Take this down now and get the moron that decided that it was ok to put this up out of there.

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Maire & Oswald Riisma,
This man was extremely cruel and he should not be honored.

Wayne L. White,
What part of D-DAY MEMORIAL don't those who erected the Stalin bust understand?

Nancy Valle,
Hope you can accomplish this goal.

Anthony Nguyen,

erik johnson,
That statue serves no point.

Nam Nguyen,
I'm the victim of communist so i oppose either bust or statue of Stalin to be display. He should be destroyed ,burned or hung

Michael Mullins,
Stalin's image belongs only in a dump or at the end of a rope

SFC James W. Morrison Jr. (Ret),
I work in Washington, DC and my daily commute takes me past the Iwo Jima Memorial, The Vietnam Memorial, the World War II Memorial, and most importantly, Arlington National Cemetery, with its acres and acres of humble monuments honoring the individual sacrifices of Americans so that we may live in freedom. The D-Day memorial in Bedford, Virginia is as inspiring as any of the war memorials in our nation’s capital, honoring those who fought for the freedom of others. To erect a bust of a communist dictator, who's oppressive ideologies we have fought for over half a century, on the site of the memorial meant to honor the courage and sacrifices made on the beaches of Normandy, demonstrates a profound disrespect to not only those who fought and sacrificed that day in June 1944, but to every American service member that fought and sacrificed in nearly every conflict since. Please remove the bust of this oppressor.

steven Vu,
no place for him in all of the world

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A bust of Stalin does not belong in USA!

John Harris,
They may have been our military allies at the time, but the Soviets were NEVER our friends. Stalin has NO place in this memorial!

hung tran,

Paul,
To all the people who claim that we are haters who want to rewrite history- What is next? Having Devil statues at churches??

Wm Balchunas,

john nguyen,

Helena Neem,

Tammy Summers,
In the immortal words of President Reagan, Tear down that statie

Kristine Phan,
please remove and destroy as soon as possible the Mass murder Stalin bust . Thanks

Gabriella Hoffman,
Stalin killed my relatives and many other Russians. Sign this petition to stop this tyranny of displaying this disgusting animal.

Stacy Hyatt,

Lembit Dalberg,
The new age beginning.

Arni Alandi,

Raimo Sule,
I remember well the terrible time of Stalin.

albert pong,
Iosif Vissarionovich Dzugashvili is the last person that should be honored at a D-Day memorial commemorating the overthrow of tyranny. Not only is he responsible for killing 55 million in Russia, Dzhugashvili sent agents to neighboring countries to assassinate leaders, reducing nations to anarchy where Communism would reign. Many of those nations have yet to recover.

Jesse Birch,
Why was this bust put there??? Remove it now!!!

Luan Nguyen,

Todd Moss,
This is just crazy, really.

Teodora Tzankova,

Henn Käämbre,
What a shame for US! Remove it!

Pamela W. Richmond,
Honoring Stalin at a D-Day Memorial is like honoring Hitler at a medical research facility. You could make a perverted case for both honors, by why would anyone ever want to?!!?

Mengebier,
It is beyond my understanding that anyone ever thought of erecting a bust of Stalin on a D-Day memorial, the only reason Stalin was at Yalta is because we had a common enemy, once Stalin got what he wanted in the treaty, he then continued his massacres, salt mines, oppressions of all kind, he was an egotistical monster. The bust of Stalin on this memorial is like erecting a bust of Mc Carthy on a communist monument, or Stonewall Jackson on a tribute wall to slavery.
Again, please try to explain to me who thought of this bust and how it came to actually happen
Sincerely

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Dennis Finch,
A bust of Stalinshould not be at the D-Day Memorial or anywhere esle in this country!

robert mcclellan,
an insult to all the captive nations-please note today msnbc on the msn website noted the georgians tore down his statue in his birthplace

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Notice that the people in his home town in Russia tore down his statue, yesterday!!

Annie S. Pollard,
What an insult to Bedford, VA and most of all to those veterans who sacrificed so much because of the ruthless killings of men, women and children (millions and millions of them) by Stalin. Remove the statue....PLEASE!

Mark Florentine,
I do not support a bust of this communist thug at a memorial. Please consider removing it.

Angelina bentley,
The man is not a hero he was worse than hitler.good riddance

Daniel bentley,
Thanks to such a so called great leader the country unto which the war began upon was wrongfully imprisoned under communist rule for a whole generation.

Ave Piir,

Dan Macek,

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chris cassone,

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Joe Hanlon,
The statue of Stalin should have never been at this memorial to begin with. The Russian people sacrificed a lot during WWII but not at D Day and there are far better people to represent them than this butcher.

Rick Clemens,
This is Unbelievable!!
This is not Russia.
Take it Down!

Dung nguyen,
Lenin is a huge killer,take him to hell.

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DO NOT LET COMMUNIST INTO THIS COUNTRY

Vadim Yarmolinets,
REMOVE!!!

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Joe C. Camarillo,
I don't Honor Murdereous Thugs

Edmund Schrag,
Ask Ukraine if they want it.

saarlane,
DUH? Where have you been? Please read a non-Russian history book! Are you thinking???????

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Sandra Behan,

john Geary,

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Darius,

Eva Kiss,

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To me, putting up a bust of Stalin is equivalent to putting up one of Hitler...how disrespectful...no, worse than that...how hurtful to do to the families of the people he killed? Unbelievable.

Andy Lacis,
A symbol of evil needs to be relegated to a more appropriate place

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I.Jekabson,
Honor Stalin?

Kevin Le,
Any dictatorship should not be honored, even with the list of criminal he committed. Not only that, he was the Murderer for thousands of Russian people.

Alexander Blyakher,
Stalin is clearly recognized to be a bloody despot that equals in evils done to Hitler and has no place in the National D-Day Memorial.

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PLEASE REMOVE THE STALIN STATUE FROM THE NATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL,BEDFORD,VIRGINIA

Jeremy J Duncan,
I am an Operation Iraqi Freedom Veteran of the 116th Infantry Regiment, the unit that took Omaha Beach on D-Day. I am appalled at the thought of putting a dictator's bust at a memorial dedicated to the victory that my unit secured on June 6, 1944.

Jesus Garcia,

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Joseph Minnie,
This is terrible replace it with a bust of a group of people behind barbwire or something like they are in concentration camps but do not give this evil person and bust for people to see he doesn't deserve it. You could also use the old USSR insignia the one under stalin.

David Minnie,

Jonathan Kendrick,
This statue is highly inappropriate....take it down.

Scott Severance,
Tear it down

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How stupid can some people be? Why erect a monument to the greatest killer of all time!!!

Sharon S.,

Frank L Hocker,

Don McRae,
I won't go back till it's gone.

René,
Dzhugashvili(Stalin) was just a simple robber, thief and murderer, nothing to honour.

Laimute Lipinskaite,

Ronald Jensen,

Helen K. Stuttle,
This statue must be removed. In 1933 Josef Stalin deliberatley engineerd a famine that killed over 7 million Ukranians.

Vernon V Moody, Jr.,
Just one more ridiculous thing going on nowadays. Sigh.

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Lois Higgins,
This is just one more indication of how the Socialists and Marxist's in this country are attempting to re-write history and make it more palettable to the American public. Don't be fooled folks ! By giving in to this abomination we risk loosing the very freedom our men and women in uniform along with our allies fought so hard to preserve. The D Day memorial should be a place of honor to our veterans and this bust is a disgrace . TAKE IT DOWN NOW

Jane Bowers,
Do not allow this to happen in honor of the 7-11 million people who he starved to death by engineering a famine in Ukraine and the other countries- most of the people who starved were Ukranians.

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We don't want this killers, he was the ghost who loved people bloods..
xuan le

Ronny Camp,
Why would we immortalize any communist especially this man???

Chris Englert,
This guy murdered millions of his own people, it would be insult to the many drave solderns on D-Day

Terrylea Hankins,
Our family lost several family members who gave ALL for this war and Stalin does NOT in any way HONOR their memory or there service. Please STOP and think how all buried in our over seas cemeterys would be outraged to find Stalin in their memorial.

john iwanyszyn,
during his regime my grandfather, grandmother, and uncle were sent to siberia and tortured.

Steven Ross,

Urve Pohi,
IT must go!!!

Wilmer and Carol Paul,
A bust of Stalin is an offense to the true heroes.

Hiep Nguyen,
It's a shame if we honor the murderer.

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Mykola Sarazhynskyy,
He killed tens of millions of Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and people of other nationalities. If his name is to be remembered it should be among murderers such as Hitler and not victors.

Kerry Michel,
Unbelieveable that thug and a communist like Stalin can have a bust for a D-Day Memorial. They just tore down a huge statue yesterday in his hometown. It is a slap in the face to all the people whose suffering and murder he ordered. Ugh! Take it down, it doesn't belong in the memorial. Keep American values American, fight communism by preventing the glorification of such an animal as Stalin.

Sara,
Take it down!

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Please remove the Stalin Statue from the National D-Day Memorial Foundation.We are veterans and victimes of comumuism.We don't want our future generations to see that criminal statue.

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WHAT the is wrong with you people? Get this statue removed ASAP, please!!!

Elisabeth B. Stanton,
This is an abomination!

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This is an absolute outrage for this country. Who are these people that think this is okay?

James P. McManus,
While I realize no Russian soldiers played a part in
D-Day they played an enormous part in winning
WWII. Why not a statue to an ordinary Russian
soldier with an explanation of their role in the
conflict?
A statue to historys worst mass murderer is no
way to commemorate the sacrifices of so many in
the name of freedom.

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Gregory Moss,
What does Stalin have to do with D-Day? Does Obama have anything to do with this?

Neal Cocke,
Any person with any sense of humanity should be appalled by any memorial to Stalin; particulalry at
such a place of honor as the National D-Day memorial. My late father, a combat wounded Korean War veteran, and the men who went on to fight communism in future wars demand better. What were they thinking?

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Winter War Suomi-Finland Perkele! Don't brother with Russians. Kick that Stalin statue to the arse of old donkey!

Kate Maxwell,

ellh@optonline.net,

anh huynh,
can dep bo nhung ten do te cua nhan loai de khoi bi am anh.

Michael Goblet,
Memorize the people not the monster.

Philip Hughes,

Anne Soukhanov,
Not only is the Stalin bust a disgrace, it changes the original 1989 Charter of the National D-Day Memorial.

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Ron Miller,
Complete and utter ignorance. And without Hitler, D-Day would not have been possible. Where is his statue?

This foundation's Communist hero also refused to aid the US with Japan, forcing further costly attacks and thousands of lives lost in the Pacific Theater. Somehow this still qualifies the butcher of the Ukraine as a D-Day "ally" and gets him a statue? Really?

Karen Olson,
Why anyone near Bedford is allowing this statue to stay in its place is beyond me. DESTROY IT!!!! He destroyed millions of people. Wake up America - stop being afraid

Man from Finland,
U guys never learn who is on your side and who is your enemy? Next time just drop the atomic bomb to our neck so we don't have to see this all shit happen again. Hitler AND Stalin started war together. Stalin had his own concentration camps and those guys who ended Siberia were the lucky ones. The whole fucking Ukraine was one big Soviet concentration camp. Stalin murdered Finns, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians and Polish people... He murdered those Polish in Katyn BECAUSE he planned to sent 25 000 Finns to those concentration camps. 150 000 Finns was planned to execute right away in Finland and others he planned to send other concentration camps to the Siberia. This man was lunatic! D-Day and Stalin? Stalin was attacking to the Finland D-Day fuking hell!!!

Daina Zarins,
Only after we create statues for each of the millions of people Stalin murdered should anyone consider giving him the honor of a statue. He is in line behind millions who deserve such an honor.

Langston Holmberg,

Zinta Holmberg,

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Markus Videnieks,

dave maloney,
Stalin bust is a disgrace

Diane Embry,

TRAN TRONG,

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Michael F Wachter,
Statue is bad and sends wrong message. Fireing those who petition against statue is in violation of their constitutional rights

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Never have any communism sign in this country!
See how much tears and deaths from communists countries have had over human!
Freedom rather than stay with communists!

Judy L. Hice,
What an insult to our men and women in the armed forces to have his bust on display.

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There should be a memorial built to Stalin's victims which number millions and include Russian soldiers even though they fought against the germans

Curtis Nelson,
I think we should stick with our AMERICAN founding fathers. Lets put a statue of George Washing, Ben Franklin or Thomas Jefferson, not a killer with no morals for free rights and life.

Carlton Brown,
any monument to Stalin is a disgrace. The Russian people that provided the eastern front deserve the credit

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This is America - NOT RUSSIA! We don't honor those who murder their own citizens! Why are we displaying this awful thing?

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JOHN MORGAN,

Laurie Murray,
This seems like something Sean Penn would be behind...dumb dumb dumb....

Jamie Trans,

JAMES TRANS,

NGUYEN THI TUYET MAI,

Todd E. VanderMolen,
We don't need a statue of the monster to recall what he did!

nancy pettigrew,

Teresa A Lamont,
What would make God-fearing folks such as your-selves see fit to honor a man like this? Do you all know what he believed in and did not believe in? He was an athiest and you errect a statue to honor him. What is next, a statue to honor Satan himself? Do you see what you are teaching your children and grandchildren? God Help You All

Brenda Dunlap,
"Honorable" is not a word to describe Stalin.
A bust at a memorial should be for someone worthy of being honored!

Betsy Ashton,

William E. Dunlap,
The D Day memorial is to honor the military who fought and died on the beaches of Normandy.

Peter Cook,
Is there NO END to the MADNESS!! The very graves of his MILLIONS of victims And the tens of thousands U.S. servicemenwomen who died fighting against this tyrant/murderer deserve better.

Avo Hiiemae,

Ray Marchetta,
KOLIMAR, Soviet Georgia famine 1932, Siberia, Purges that killed 20 million, V Cheka, and much more! Are you kidding me with this statue of Stalin?

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As a Vietnam era Vet and having lost an uncle in Italy during WWII I am opposed the bust of Stalin being displayed at the D-Day Memorial.

John Calvin Slagboom,
The idea of having a bust of Stalin on the ground that our men and women At Arms have paid for is an outrage and makes me want to vomit.

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The Russians in stalin's hometown just removed his statue. What is wrong with the people in Bedford, Virginia, who approved of this waste of money to honor an evil man who killed so many of his own people?

Denis Giannelli,
It is outrageous that a monster of the magnatude of Josef Stalin should be honored in this or any other country. He is responsible for the starvation of 12 million Ukranians and an estimated 30 million others.

Nikoleta Kuplins,
Too disgusting for words.

Manuel Auingan Jr.,

Bruce Steadman,

Tuan Pham,
Take that terrible thing down please. I wonder who honored that killer in our National D-Day Memorial in the first place??

D. Nguyen,
Remove, I do not want to see it, thank

David Jacobs,
This is an outrage to even consider a desecration of the memory of America's veterans by even mentioning the name of Stalin, let alone displaying a statue in our country.

chuck rising,
A bust of the most infamous mass murderers of history has no business dishonoring the memory of American, Canadian and British heros

Lisa Davis,

Tammy Symons,
Lets get the bust of Church Hill back from England and put it up in place of the murdered Stalin.

Damon Davis,

Gene Caudill,
What in the world is wrong with this country. Where are we going.

Kristaps Zarins,
the statue must be removed and destroyed - honoring the most atrocious of mass murderers is an injustice to humanity

J. Logan,

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Leslie Mehaffey,

LTC Chris Stark,
Stalin-a hero of the liberal fascists should me memoralized by his absence and his face removed from the statue.

Brenda Hall,

Deborah Schermerhorn-Gutierrez,

Kathy Dryden,

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Mike Smitherman,

Joan Marino,

Claire Marino,

John Marino,

D. Dellicker,
As a Virginian I am ashamed to have anyone see this bust displayed in my state. I emplore those who have a say in its removal to make that happen NOW! Save face and do it yourselves before others do it by force. This should not be tolerated. The man was a mass murderer and a disgrace to mankind.

james a shepherd,
why his bust at one of our places to remeber dead at ? Shame the people that put up its tacky and offensive

Helen Westover,

Herbert E. Geissler,
Remove the inappropriate bust of Stalin ... and also the idiots on the Memorial's Board who thought Stalin should be honored in the D-Day memorial.

Jean Gray,

Rich Ricchezza,
Shame on us if we don't get this butchers bust removed.

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Rob Jesionowski,

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no stalin

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This tyrant killed more people than Hitler. He does not deserve to be honored.

Marju Rink-Abel,

Willie Gray,

June Moorman,

josh wlkins,
Well first of all why is there a bust of Stalin at a D Day memorial? Stalin didn't have any connection to D day. Second, Stalin would have loved to see the united states destroyed. TAKE IT DOWN.

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Please remove the statue for the respect of the Latvian people and others who had suffered under Stalin's rule.

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Connie Andrews,
Have visited the Memorial twice, before the Stalin statue arrived. Won't go back until it's gone.

Wayne Kvasnicka, Major USArmy Retired,

Lisa Hollandsworth,
Stalin has no place on the grounds intended to honor our D-Day heroes. He paid no price on D-Day and deserves no recognition at the Memorial.

Kent Gage,
Stalin Killed more of his own people than Hitler. He was just as brutal and also used his people as slave labor. He was only our temporary ally because Hitler attacked him first, breaking their mutual 'Non-Aggression Pact.' The installers of this bust either have no knowledge or understanding of historical fact, or worse, they do!

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marshall o st clair,
This is a disgrace to the men and women who served in that time in our country. Its a disgrace to America.

Thomas F. Hamm,
I am a Bedford County resident and I gave 24 years to the country in the military. Maj/USAF/Ret

Karl Taht,

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It does not belong at the DDay Memorial in Bedford, Va.

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What is meaning when you have to honor a killer. ask Medvedev who is Stalin

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Gertrude Jones,
This is hard to believe that, The Stalin Statue is located at The National D-Day Memorial Foundation. It should be removed at once.

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Joan Gross,

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Please do not glorify Salin by including him with D-Day heroes.

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We have nothing to do with the Communist. This is a free country, we do not accept his bust to be with our heroes.

Melvin Duckenfield,
As a Virginia native I too strongly oppose honoring this murderous dictator. This is absolutely shameful and no explanation can justify such a memorial.

Anne Krutulis,
Who put the statue there in the first place?

Barbara Harper,
I can not believe this is happening in America. What a slap in the face of our troops and families.

Peter T. Revesz,
As a born Hungarian, a US ex-GI, as a grandfather hoping for decency around the world, I find it ethically wrong, and downright stupid for a US memorial to D-Day to contain Stalin's statue.

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Remove the bust of Stalin and instead have a listing of what Stalin did, the good and the bad before, during, and after WW2 and acknowledge the Russian soldiers who did fight to end WW2. There should also be a notation that Stalin and Soviet forces did NOT play any part in the D-Day landing in Normandy.

Astrida Greco,

Mary Malys,
This statue MUST be removed right now.

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Georgia just pulled the statue of Stalin. Why do you want to keep it?

Yoni Assis,
Things keep getting worse and worse in this country. Have we lost our collective minds?!

Nelson Klein,
Leaders of the National D-Day Memorial Foundation:

Are you all out of your cotton-picking minds? Stalin is responsible for the genocide of over 20 million people! Stalin had no role in D-Day. No Soviet troops fought with the Allies on the beach that day! Shame on you! Remove the despicable beast, Josef Stalin, from the D-Day Memorial!

Maiken Tulev,

Truong tan Trung Van Anh,

Tuong Luu Nguyen,
Please remove the Stalin statue from The National D-Day Memorial. Virgina

Truong tan Trung Nam,

Truong tan Trung Viet,

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Stalin allied with Hitler, attacked to the Finland, bombed Finnish civilians and Finnish towns and robbed 11% from Finland's surface area. Why you want to celebrate this mass murderer? He murded even more people that Hitler.

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Screw Stalin. He KILLED 20 million people.

Peeter Paul,
Stalin was most biggest killer women and children in Eastern Europe.
Stalin kill any more peaple than Hitler.

Isabelle Terry,

Mike Lankford,
Take it down and stick it where the sun don't shine, and shoot the SOB that put it up.

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This make me want to vomit. Russia had nothing to do with D-Day and putting anything that makes it appear they did proves that the American educational system is broken beyond repair.

Liga Belicka,

Michael Williams,
This bust needs to go ASAP. Period. No excuse for erecting a bust of a brutal dictator.

Terry Lee St.Clair,

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Stalin attacked to Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Lithuania, Poland. He was war criminal. Why United States want to make statues for this man? Is Obama driving US to the communism?

SANDRA HOUCK,

Koiv, Aavo,
Stalin was a killer of herculean proportions who ranks as one of the top three dictator/monsters of our time. He resides in Hell crawling next to Mao and Hitler,...and America wants to honor him, absolutely dumbfounding?

Ruta Chagnon,

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Nguyen Hong Liet,
Remove the socialism ideal in our mind too.

nhanguyen,

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This is an abomination to the heroes of WWII. Please get rid of this bust.

Hoang Nguyen,
Remove The Stalin Statue

John Schermerhorn,

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John T. Simpson,
I find it endlessly ironic that Stalin's own Russian hometown in Georgia has taken down the bloody dictator's statue while Americans defend his placement in this war memorial. What's wrong with this picture?

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Randall Jensen,
This abomination has no place among the honored hero’s who have given their lives, limbs and peace of mind to defeat. If his statue remains, I think it that all who gave in WWII should have equal time and honor and that all military members of WWII should have a statue that towers over Stalin’s hateful image. Just more proof that our country is in serious trouble.

Allen King,

Karen King,

Doug Brown,
let the veterans of bedford take care of this ,the'll know what to do with this piece of junk

CARL POLLARD,
IT IS A DISGRACE TO ALL OF US WHOM FOUGHT IN WORLD WAR TWO .AND ALL THAT DIED .

tim fives,
Really?? I need to sign a petition to remove one of the key architects of the cold war? Does anybody know our history? This man represents one of the greatest evil's this planet has ever known, and we honor him with a bust at the D-Day memorial. What happen to our values, of defending freedom and defeating the forces of Tyranny? This man represents the threat to all of the ideals this country our founding fathers, and every soldier holds dear.
The bust of Stalin is a disgrace!

Marion L Stade,

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Crystal Pash,
I am vehemently opposed to this statue, not only in Virginia, but anywhere in this country!!!!

If we know history and remember history, then we also understand that there is nothing about this man to honor. How easily we seem to be lulled into forgetting the devastation and destruction of life and the sacrifices made to fight it. We must not forget!! Bring down the statue!

Brian Seymour,
soviet troops did not land on dday, take it down

harriet kinder,
Harriet Kinder

Cosmo Clemente,
It's a disgrace!!1

Visvaldis Kimenis,
No need to recreate history through misinformation and disinformation. It remains a historical fact that NO Soviet troops landed on the five beaches in Normandy during Operation Overlord now known as D-Day. Therefore, Stalin's bust does not belong there. So, TEAR DOWN THIS OBAMANATION! By the way, are there any statues of Roosevelt and/or Truman at the Kremlin for Victory in Europe??!!

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I strongly oppose Stalin being represented at the D-Day Memorial.

Linda Wright,

maria casero,

Donna Diorio,
What the heck were you people thinking?

Dottie Williams,
I have been a Virginia resident for 60 years...I would have never thought I'd live long enough to hear of such a disgraceful, insulting, and dis honorable action towards our veterans and all country men taking place in our Country much less Virginia...I don't know what communist idiot came up with this idea....but he should be removed from his office as quickly as this disgusting statue!

Sharon Mitchell,

Geraldine H. Kelley, Ph.D.,

david parnell,
Commuinism is infiiltrerating our country and trying to rewrite history.

Judith C. Bush,
Please remove the bust of Stalin from the National D-Day Memoirial grounds

Steven Thrasher,
Celebrating a genocidal long-time ally of HITLER who enslaved millions demonstrates an abject ignorance of history. Paying for this with out tax dollars is insult to injury. Someone(s) should be fired. Now. And the bust be removed to it's proper place--at the base of a latrine.

Clarence W Sweeney,

Nicholas Darwent,

Frances A. Deacon,
A Stalin bust in Virginia?!! ~ Is Washington shipping bottled kool-aid to the Virginians now? ~ Vote them off the island. ~ What next, put a plaque up commemorating the "Great Patriotic War"...?!! ~ Vote them all off the island. ~ Buh-bye!

Dennis Ta,

Lai Than,
This murderer must be removed.

Dina Lietuviete-Vevere,

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Charles Attaway,

Mikhail Peterburgskiy,
Stalin = Hitler. This murderer has not place in any memorial.

Larry Selk,
Stalin has no place in the USA except as a bad example!

Christina Crespo,

Clayton Poarch,
Thank you for bringing this to my attention, another symptom that evidences the inmates are running the asylum.

when will the absurdity cease?

Ergo Rikmann,

Jean Hall,

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Viivi Niitsoo,

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Casey Richardson,
A statue glorifying Joseph Stalin in the D-Day Memorial would be a disgrace to the US and its allies.

Dan Pempel,
The Statue of Stalin , a Mass Murder, has no place in this country!!

Louise Itis,
People are being fined for flying the flag, yet a statue of a filthy, murderous, communist, tyrant can disgrace a US war memorial??? Whoever put it there belogs in prison, like Stalin would do to them, only kinder, because he would kill them..

T. Berkshire,

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How dare you even think of this insult to the USA!!

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Respectfully, Stalin must be removed.He had no part in D-Day.

Lenny Corns,
Stalin statues were pulled down in Russia for a reason.
Why put them up in the US?

Thomas J. Mitchell,

Daniel Holdren,
The bust of stalin is an insult to the D-day memorial. You are intirely welcome to post my name

Michael Renna,
You Cannot be Serious! Remove Immediately!

James Wingate,

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Zofia Reklewska-Braun,
I come from Poland and I am old enough to remember Stalin's atrocities in this country during the WWII and after... He was worst than Hitler for many slavic nations.

Edyth Parraga,

nga nguyen,

Barb Poole,
Where is the common sense? This is America and this Stalin bust has no place in Virginia.

phuoc nguyen,
He is in the same league as Hitler, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Mao Tse Tsung (China). They are blood thirsty killers.

Ty Boheler,
The bust of the mass murderer Stalin does NOT belong at the memorial.

jim fitzpatrick,

R.Dombrowski,

Rebecca Kelley,
This needs to stop NOW.

SUSAN OREM,
NOT IN OUR COUNTRY, NOT NOW, NOT EVER! REMOVE THIS INSULTING PIECE OF GARBAGE THAT REPRESENTS THE RAPING AND KILLING OF MILLIONS OF BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE THAT MAY HAVE GIVEN OUR WORLD SO MANY GIFTS TO BRING US TO A BETTER PLACE IN THE WORLD TODAY. AN INSULT TO AMERICAN PATRIOTS EVERYWHERE!

Richard Giddens,
Tear that goddamned thing down, NOW!

Kristin Teeter,
This is an insult to Americans everywhere. And a spit in the eye of human rights.

Andrea Voldo,
This is a disgrace!

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Adriana Fotino,

margit williford,
horrified that this evil tyrannical egomaniacal power-mongering murderer is being memorialized here in the USA.

Anna Murray,
TAKE IT DOWN

Clarice Fitts,
Please do not allow the Stalin statute to be added to the D-Day Memorial. Stalin was a murderer and was not involved in D-Day plans.

Elaine J Sherrill,

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Who's idea was this??? It is just so UN-American! Stalin was the direct antithesis of what this country stands for, and what these veterans died for. A statue of a man like that should become scrap metal only!!!

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Tim George,
Progressivism is societal cancer.

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Stalin may have joined the U.S., but not because he was on the right side of history. Stalin was a worse mass murderer than even Hitler. Islamicfascism is ALIVE AND WELL. Go back and study Islamicfascism and WWI and WWII. Hitler and the Islamic leaders were together. Their cause is alive and well today. We MUST DEFEAT IT starting with the current administration and progressives in our congress.

John Manuola,
The man slaughtered MILLIONS of men, women and children...and starved millions more in the Ukraine....he has no place in America.

Jennifer M.,
Memorials are for recognition, and a way to honor those that have passed on for future generations. The lesson of Stalin, and other "monsters" should be remembered, but not given a memorial.

Domnica Fotino,

Karen Wright,
I can't believe I'm having to do this. It's appalling the Stalin bust would have been placed in the first place.

TK Ta,
Remove The Stalin Statue From The US National D-Day Memorial

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ray mccormack,
get it out of my country

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Pierrick Miston,
The presence of this monster's bust is completely insane, an insult to those that served in operation Over Lord and America at large. The people in charge of this memorial are obviously uneducated and do not know their history. Take down the bust of one of history's most infamous tyrant and mass murderer.

Phong Thai,

Alena Rehacek,
This is an insult to all political refugrees from former communist Czechoslovakia including my husband and I!!!!

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Stalin was a killer!!!!!

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Cathy Villarreal,
Remove that statue immediately!!!!

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Thieu G. Nguyen,
In WWII, Joseph Stalin was a mass murderer. He has no place at the National D-day Memorial. This purpose of this memorial is to honor the heroes of that day. Stalin’s is not a legacy to be honored. We respectfully ask the National D-Day Memorial Foundation to remove the Stalin Bust.

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Statues for this monster are insult towards the Finns who fought for the western civilization in winter war. Many Finns lost their lifes in winter war when Stalin invaded Finland and in continuation war when Finns tried to fix this injustice that was done against their fatherland. Statues for this monster are statues for the devil. Tear it down!!!

erik sieberg,
The West won the war not Stalin. Stalin was busy kiling his own people. Honor the veterans of New York State and take the bust down.

Laura Orr,
I am outraged that our country would permit any celebration with D Day with Stalin, a man who murdered his own people in cruel and unusual ways. He murdered 40 million of his own people and the atrocities of what his soldiers did to the citizens (women & children) of Berling when they brought it down is mind numbing and makes you want to vomit with the accounts of the rapes and murdes of innocent women and children who could not get out of Berlin in time. It is horrible! Please do not make our soldiers have anything to do with any sort of celelbrating stalin in any way. How can you honor a murderer!

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John Evdemon,

Brandon,

Mel Lofurno,

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Sue Lofurno,
Stalin's statue should not be in our D-Day Memorial. This is truly an insult to our brave men who fought and died. This petition says it so well. PLEASE REMOVE STALIN FROM THIS MEMORIAL!

Richard Gardner,

Nicolae Constantinescu,

Bao Chau Nguyen,

Barbara Best,

Chris Last,
The Georgians hace recently removed his statue in Gori. It is inappropriate that Stalin's statue should be on display in the USA, considering the extreme brutality of his regime, and his treatment of the peoples of the nations that fell within the orbit of the USSR.

THE HONORABLE JOHN L SULAK,
STALIN? In America? Are you kidding me? We shouldn't even need a petetion. It should have never been there in the first place. Obama has brought communism to America! He needs to go back to his homeland, Kenya and practice his Islam!

Thu Luu,
How could we have a Communist statue at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia when we honor the valor, fidelity, and sacrifice of Allied forces on D-Day?

R Rau,
Stalin has no place at the D Day Memorial

Jennifer West,
The D-Day Memorial is to commemorate the lives of those who bravely and courageously defended the freedoms of future generations. Stalin has no place among them and his statue must be removed.

Karl Schwelm,
What is wrong with our leaders ? This is a no brainer. Stalin murdered millions.

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Stalin was a killer!

Kathy J. Greer,
Even though Russia was one of the Allies during WWII, they were not involved in the Normandy invasion. The Allied Forces that invased Normandy on D-Day consisted of the USA, UK and Canada.

Michael Ganoe,
It's time to stop the mocking of our countries history by allowing this outrage to continue.

Jaak Pedak,
It is simply unacceptable to have a bust of Stalin, one of the twentieth century's great mass murderers, at a memorial honoring D-Day.

Ovid,
A merciless killer of defenseless innocent people, my fellow countrymen included, does not deserve the honor of an hero. In fact, he was no hero at all, as he signed a shameless pact with Hitler. He got depressed after Hitler broke it and did not react to the Nazi military offensive for a long while. Quite an hero!

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Stalin must not be honored in any state of our GREAT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

Jon Mahalingappa,
This statue is a disgrace

Maria Pedak-Kari,
Statues of murderers do not belong in American tributes to D-Day or any other part of WWII. Please take it down immediately and recycle the material used.

Sharon A Jones,

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Please take down the Stalin bust.

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You should never celebrate Stalin. The whole WWII started because HE signed that secret pact with Hitler. HE made it possible that Hitler attacked to Poland. HE attacked to the Poland IN ALLIANCE with Hitler. HE mass murdered Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians and occupied their countries. HE murdered those Polish in Katyn because HE wanted to send Finns to Katyn. It was HE who invaded Finland and robbed their land. HE IS AS GUILTY AS HITLER to the WWII.

Faye Lacey,
It is unbelievable that Stalin could be included in a D-Day Memorial

Valentina Marinova,

Art elias,
HM@ Art Elias WW2 + Korea, Please take the darn thing down.

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Deedee,
ABSURD to have Stalin on USA soil.

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sherrie miranda,

Gerarad Eichhorn,

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out of NATIONAL D-Day memorial

Richard McDonald,
A bust of Stalin has NO place on American soil, or any other country honoring our war veterans. Vietnam 68-69

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Stalin doesn't deserve the honor of having a presence at the D-Day Memorial.

Malle Kapsta Burggraf,

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Mark Gibson,

Julie Carter,
While I understand that Stalin was indirectly an allied force because of his invasion on Nazi forces, his face/bust should not be mounted anywhere in the United States of America. Any man that was responsible for the murder of millions of men, women, and children should not be immortalized (and possibly mistaken by viewers as revered) in a statue present in our own country. Everything he upheld as correct is in complete opposition to the ideals that formed and continue to uphold our country.
It is misleading to Americans and foreigners alike that he was to be thanked for his part in the WWII events when his intent was domination and power, not liberty and justice. It is for this reason that I call for a removal of Stalin's bust from the US National D-Day Memorial. Please consider allowing only for a plaque which would carefully explain the real intent and reasons for his help in the fight and his impact on the war. I want my children to be exposed to history accurately and without sheltering them from the truth, however, I refuse to try to explain to them why our own government would erect a statue to honor his 'accomplishments' in WWII.

Paul M. Boos,
One of the greatest murderers in history!

Phyllis Conrad,

lawrence miller,

Marilyn Osborne-Bach,
If it were a World War II memorial, I would not sign the petition, but it's a D-Day Memorial.

Maria Mohan,

LARRY GREGORY,
Stalin was a murderer. Kenneth Salazar may like communists, but the only statue in VA. should be an American.

Terry Naylor,
Stalin does not deserve to be honored with those who served in D-Day.

Faye Ferguson,

Margot Realmuto,

Ann Hince,

minh nguyen,
staline is a murder not a hero.

Margit-Mariann Koppel,
Estonia was "liberated" by Stalin from state, freedom, and we lost 25% of our pre-war population, 270 000 peole, 170 000 never born children, crushed lives, destroyed homes, villages, etc. Without Stalin help to Hitler, Adolf would never make so far. Stalin = Hitler.

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Bob Dodson,

Case Pieterman,

Giang Dinh,
A dictator ordered to kill million of peoples in his country ,cannot be recognized in D day memorial in USA

Maris J. Antons,

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this is unbelievable---this guy was worst than hitler!!!!!!! when are you guys going to get it???

Svetlana Lushkott,

Nguoi Ta Ru,

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Removal ASAP is not soon enough!

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Those that came up with this lamebrained idea need to reread their history book

rochelle,
please remove the stalin statue in bedford va

John Tatum,
I find it quite disturbing that one of the greatest mass murderers in the history of the world has a statue standing on American soil. This is a disgrace and an insult, and should be removed immediately.

David Graves,

Michael Shoup,

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This man was a murderer and not to be given a place of "honor" in this nation.

Jean Barrera,

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Remove the Stalin Bust at once.

Lang tran,
Remove the Stalin bust, please.

Thomas Mikulski,
Destroy it!!!!!!

Benjamin Tessler,
Having a bust of Joseph Stalin at this Memorial is inapropriate and disrespectful to those who this Memorial is meant to honor.

Barb Bennett,
Joseph Stalin was a MURDERER! Please, in the name of Humanity, remove all evidence of this person from ANY Memorial!!!!!

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D. Sheffield,
It's insulting and needs to go.

john P Fish,
we fought for freedom of europe stalin inslaved eastern europe and butchered 50 million of his own citizens cause he was a socialist marxist like the usa is becoming but we the people will fight back against tyranny you shame our grandfathers to have the buther of moscow up russian toue him down that is not coming here we will have a 2nd american revolt before we go commie and we the people the patriots will win

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What is the town thinkin? Get rid of the statue

Judith Reap,

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My father grandfather both fought In WWII and this is a Disscrace to there memory.

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I visited the D-Day Memorial. It touched me at
such a deep level. A bust of Joseph Stalin has
no place there and dishonors the lives of those
who sacrificed everything for MY COUNTRY, AMERICA.

Kathy Byron,

MJQuist,
I think it was in bad taste to set Stalin in the hallowed ground of the Bedford Boys and all others who gave their life for our freedom.

Ho Xuan Thanh,

Mark A. Byrd,
I am a veteran of the Vietnam war, a former Marine officer and pilot. I strongly object the Sculpture of Stalin in the National D-Day Memorial. It is a disgrace and dishonors all those betrayed by Stalin during and after the war from the Polish resistance fighters in Warsaw, the masacred Polish officer corps, and the millions of Russians he sacrificed during the war. Many American and other allied airmen and soldiers were wrongfully interned in Russia during the war. Stalin did not honor the agreements of the alliance during the war. At the close of the war he seized Eastern Europe in operations that were clearly planned before the end of the war. Stalin was thus really not an ally at all. Regardless of this, he had nothing to do with D-Day operation and has no more place there then leaders of any of our many other allies - India, Australia, Canada, Fiji Islands, etc.
Please eliminate this travesty immediately.

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Garry Pinkston,
DO NOT PUT THIS STATUE UP & IF YOU DO HAVE IT UP TAKE IT DOWN ! ! ! !

Kim-Hien Horning,
Enough is enough!!!

Nancy Graham,
What the Hell is this country coming to?

Ca Nguyen,

Santa Sveda,

Mary Auman,
It's an insult to those who Stalin destroyed. I question the mentality of someone who would defile our country with that statue.

Dr. Ronald Cutburth,

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There's no place on earth for this tyrant

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Vilnis Gertners,

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terry roberts,

Michael C Preston,
An absolute disgrace. We're commenorating one of the greatest mass murderers in History?

Pamela Stroud,
For this my father fought in WW11, went in on Normandy, and fought the Battle of the Bulge??????? I don't think so!

David Hogg,

daina kins peterson,

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Stalin is the blood leader. He killed thounsands of people in Soviet Union and his communism also killed thounsands of people in Viet Nam. So, I don't want his statue appear in USA where democlary is the best

Michael McKay,
Thank you for taking down this tribute to a MONSTER.

Mr & Mrs Bradley Schmehl,
Stalin was a butcher. Take down his bust!

Lisa Vogel,
Please check out the wall street journal for Saturday June 26 front page!! If they insist on a bust, there is one available!!

Gheorghe M. Constantinescu,

Laine Taylor,

marcia greene,
Another big mistake here in USA - take down - send to Russia - maybe they want it

jack douglas,
how many years and american lives fighting communism --- and we allow this in america down with stalin

Robin Sundquist,
This is an outrage and a huge embarrassment to this memorial and the veterans it was supposed to be honoring. Any decent person knows Stalin must go!

Diana Alexieva,

Michael Pupanek,
This evil man and Communist leader was responsible for the murder of millions of Russians and the incarceration of millions more in gulags. As such, he has no place at the National D-Day Memorial or any other park in this country for that matter. Please remove this statue at once!

Doug Cooper,

Donnie W. Slusher,
Being from Bedford, Virginia I have always been proud to tell others about my home. But now I'm not sure that I will be so quick to let anyone know where I am from because of the bust of Stalin being placed here. It really hurts to go from Bedford's proudest moment when the Memorial opened to the feeling of disgust that I have today.

Kimberly A. Baehr,
What in the name of all that is holy is a statue of The Socialist Dictator of the USSR, Joseph Stalin, doing on American Hero Hallowed Ground at the National D-Day Memorial? Who has lost their mind - Or - What Communist traitor to America instigated this atrocity?!!! This is an OUTRAGE!!!

Richard A. Arthur,

Richard A. Arthur,
Remove the depiction of the murderer from the shores of the United States

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Phyllis V. Haig,

Yuri Amirkhanian,

Liisa Soots,

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Stalin belongs on the same history page as Hitler...

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Can't even believe I have to send a petiton for something like this. You people should have your heads examined.

Daniel Hopman,
Take that thing down!

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The victory in WWII was achieved not because of Stalin, but despite Stalin. He should not be commemorated in any positive connotation. Tens of millions of those he killed are, I am sure, the invisible signees of this petition.

Cash Mullen,
This is a despicable disgrace! This communist dictator is responsible for murdering over 20 million people!

M. Kisselgoff,
Stalin has no place in America - in any form!

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I can't believe we have to sign a petition for this. Whoever came up with the idea for the statue to begin with should be fired immediately.

Rretta Bajerski,

C. O. Jamison,
Mr. Reed should go with the Stalin (who killed over 20 Million people) bust, as he thinks it should be there. I am telling people not to visit the memorial (which I think is better than the one in D.C.) and I will not visit again until bust is gone. I attended the opening ceremony which was very impressive and have visited since then, my mother was in school with the Bedford Boys, my grandfather retired form Rubertex in Bedford, I am a veteran, and have lived in Franklin County for 65 years. When weeds and rodents take over the memorial maybe be can get a cheif and board with some sense and pride in the USA and the men and women who gave their lives in service to their country. As satated above I will tell people not to visit the memorial until bust is removed and hope everyone else will do likewise. Thanks C. O. Jamison

ralph,

Alex Constantinescu,

Cindy Hurtado,

Fred Canova,

Serban Constantinescu,

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Michael E. Stora, Ph.D.,
The lack of Soviet Troops in the D-Day landings is just one of many reasons not to honor this murdering bastard.

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g.r. cryar,
remove IT!

Gary Mills,
Unreal!

Ed Abermanis,
He did no good to anyone!

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Darla D. Riggs,

Marianna Asterino,
What a disgrace to the many immigrants who came here to escape this madman's atroscities...Now you want to honor this inhuman demon??? What kind of American are you? Take this monstrasity down, this is not American!!!!!!!!!

Jukka Hirvonen,
There is no place for Stalin to be in a D-Day Memorial, not in the USA, nor elsewhere in the world. This man tried to take my country down, couldn´t do it , now get this commie relic out of there!

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Say no to communism! Take down the statue.

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Stalin was a butcher, It is a shame to have his statue in this country.

Brad Shank,

Leslie L. Megyeri,
During the 1956 Hungarian Freedom Fight, I participated in the removal of the despised Stalin statute in Budapest. As a U.S. Army veteran, I am appalled that I find a Stalin statue in the US. It is imperative that in honor of all freedom loving Americans, this statute be removed.
President, Hungarian Reformed Federation of America. Washington, D.C.

Michael Van Meter,
Stalin and the Russians had nothing to do with D-Day!

Paul Gamache,
My father is rolling in his grave. I assure you of this.

Anatole Konstantin,
The Georgians topple Stalin statue, the Americans erect one. How about one for Hitler?

Louis Sette,

John Minton,

Victoria berry,

Neil Myers,
Do not put a bust of that bastard on display.

Neil Myers,
Do not put a bust of that bastard on display.

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It was a great mistake to rise a monument of the ugliest criminal on this planet.

Janis Eizis,

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Maybe Obama gives 1 200 000 square kilometers to the russians and celebrates them after that. That is precisely how much russians robbed from us in winter war: About 12% and they still occupy our Karelia. Kick that fucking stalinhead out from your country. He was war criminal and had nothing to do with d-day.

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Maybe Obama give 1 200 000 square kilometers to russians and celebrate them after that. This is precisely how much land russians robbed from us in winter war: 12%. Kick that fucking stalin asshole down!!!

Van Phat Ngo,

Scot P. White,
It's time for another American Revolution!!!!!

Andrew Willson,
God Bless America

Ron Shortt,
It must be removed!

Agata,

Sergey Chelsky,
My grandfather's brother was killed by NKVD (later known as KGB) which was the murderous engine of the Stalin's regime. I treat this bust of Stalin as a personal insult.
Shame on the Government of Bedford

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Michael Lambert,

huu nguyen,

JOHN BAKER,

Anatoly Dedkov,
Perhaps these guys used the logic like this: If there were no Stalin, there were no Hitler and World War II. Therefore there were no need in D-Day. So this bust should symbolize "The man who made D-Day necessary". It's a bad joke, I admit.

Seriously, even in Soviet Union all statues and busts of Stalin have been destroyed about 50 years ago. I couldn't imagine to see bust of Stalin here in the US. It should be removed.

Glenn R.,
I believe all history should be remembered ,good and bad, but DO NOT distort history just because it may offend someone. The statue must go and be put in a place that remembers the evils of war and humanity.

Theresa Carlson,
Stalin should not be honored.

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Don K. Miles,
This is an insult to those that served and especially to the families of those that died.

Spencer Meads,

Nguyen Ngoc Bach,

Dmitriy Dedkov,
That criminal deserves only to rot in hell.

donna ross,

Joseph Bresler,

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There is no much difference between Stalin and Hitler!!! He murdered millions people in his own country.

Robert Sanders,
I cannot believe the stupidity and insensitivity involved in erecting such a statue. Remove it immediately!

Julia Sydorowych,
Joseph Stalin is responsible for the death
by starvation "Holodomor" of 7-10 mil.
Urainians. He does not deserve
to behonored with men and women
who served with "valor, fidelity, and
sacrifice."
His "bust" would be a sacrilege and a travesty.

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VIN DELLISANTI,
IF THIS WON'T BE REMOVED I SAY PUT ONE OF HITLER. WE DON'T WANT TO DISCRIMINATE AMONG KILLERS.BY THE WAY , HITLER WAS CHOIR BOY NEXT TO STALIN.

Ashley Grimes,

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I come from Communist country, so I know what dictatorship means. No way we want this mass murder on National D-Day memorial

Andrew Joseph Murcia,
We do not honor murderers. Take it down.

Ann Jillian Murcia,
Stalin should only be remembered for the murders of millions of people, in his own country as well as my parents', Lithuania, so that the world never again suffers his kind of evil.

Mariana Ajtony,

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Andris and Kellie Inveiss,

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Maris Inveiss,
Send it ti Siberia!

Laszlo Nadanyi,
It is a disgrace to have a statue of This person that had millions of his own people killed.

Stephen Hugli,
Whoever decided to put the bust of Josef Stalin on display in the company of the Heros of WWII must be a truly sick individual and a communist at heart.

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Stalin is a monster, he killed millions people
He is a friend/master of Mao Sti Tung of Red China & Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam
Down with Communist regime

Shannon Carr,
Who would want this to stay? It's terrible! !!

Olev Vallimaa,

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william spence,
this guy, along with Hitler, started the war which cost so many young innocent lives. hes a butcher!!!!!

Leonid,
Stalin - a murderer, worse than Hitler and Pol-Pot.

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Kenneth A Delfino,
Neither our troops nor our British, Canadian, French, Belgian, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Greek and Czech allies did not murder millions of our own people. Another minor detail is that to my knowledge, no Russians were on any of the landing craft on any of the five beaches or LZs around Benouville or Ste. Mere-Eglise

Mykhailo,
No Stalin's busts, monuments and pictures no matter where !!!

Tuuli,

Aigar Põder,
Free democratic World can´t give respect to massmurderers!!!
Stalin is responsible for WWII as Hitler if no more.

Ilya Leenson,
Silly people are silly people. They have no brain in their head.

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Amanda Dorr,
This is outragrous!

Vincent Raimondo,
Maybe the organisers should be sent to a compulsory re-education course on 20th Century History

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Linda Kimball,
America was once called the 'freest, most enlightened' society the world had ever known. Today however, vast numbers of Americans have been made stupid by political correctness (cultural Marxism). With honor given to a genocidal psychopath, the inversion of our once great nation seems complete.

Bohuslav Rychlik,
Somebody missed his history lesson

RobertChevalier,
I am in agreement with so many former D-Day memorial volunteers and concerned peoples around the world that the bust of Stalin must be removed from the site.

Deidre V. Krasnansky,
To include the figure of a man who led 26 million people to their deaths is unthinkable. Since the Russians took no part in D-Day, it is an affront to those who did to include a memorial to this monster.

Arnold Lubarsky,

Sven Pavlovics,

Anthony Bartos,
It is disgraceful that it was erected in the first place!

Melissa J. Sites,
Stalin was a dictator and a criminal. His bust has been removed all over Europe. There is no good reason to include his bust at a memorial for D-Day. It is an insult to survivors of his brutal policies, and to the many who died for Freedom on D-Day.

Krcmar Vlastimil,

Jallu,
We fought two wars against this monster and one war against the Germans. Make statue for Mannerheim, not for this monster Stalin.

Ajna Pfenninberger,

Vladimir Holcik,
On the other hand, if the nazi army would not be bound by the soviet army, the D-Day would be very-very bloody, if ever. But, of course, the Stalin bust should be taken down!

Norm Zusevics,
A monument to the biggest modern-day mass killer would be like erecting a memorial for smallpox or HIV

Alexander Ilchenko,

Laura Ramanis,
A display of Stalin's bust would demonstrate the U.S.'s ignorance in the understanding of world history. The U.S. stands for freedom and liberty, not the genocide of 20 million persons as directed by Stalin during his rule.

Ervins Ramanis,

Erin Williamson,
I worked with Karl Altau at JBANC in 2008 and support the removal of this statue.

Michael Karpa,
My grandfather was shot by Stalin's troops and my uncles were imprisoned and died in Stalin's camps. This statue must come down.

Lisa Patterson,

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michael doll,
If he was so great let his country honor him not us.

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While we are at it,why don't we erect a monument of Hitler with his buddies? Because after all that is what Stalin and his beloved Soviet Union ever was- the russian version on Nazi Germany.

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Remove the bust and whoever is responsible for the decision to put it there !!!!!!!!

Thomas Berquist,
This country is headed the wrong direction. Our government is tyrannical. The display of the Stalin bust is a disgrace to our country and to the men and women that gave their all for our freedoms.

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Steven Casto,
First of all, why is a bust of this Communist S.O.B. in any historical place in the United States of America? Has Bedford been overrun by Marxists and Progressives? There is no place in the U.S.A. for any Communists busts; especially Stalin. He is responsible for the deaths of over one hundred million of his own countrymen; Stalin was a mass murderer who was worse than Hitler or Mao. As a retired veteran, I find it dispicable that any part of my home state of Virginia would honor such a tyrant!

Brian G. Lowery,
If one dime of tax money went to this abomination I want it removed immediately and whoever approved it fired.

Nikos Bellas,

Jesse Sienkiewicz,
Do you really want to celebrate this man's life?

Shelby Jay Savage,

JIM SOSNIAK,
SEND THE STALIN BUST AND THE RUSSIAN SPIES ON A ONE WAY TRIP TO THE MOTHER LAND.

Mari Kooskora,
Please remove the statue, almost every family in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and also other Eastern European countries suffered seriously because of him. Furthermore he and his corrupt administration created an environment of threatening and mistrust which unfortunately has still some relict in our people.

Lynn Trinh,

Glenn W. Anderson,
This should never have happened in America. It is un-American. It is wrong. And those involved in creating it should be removed and replaced with people of principle and Constitutional thinking. Take it down-now and quickly.

Maija-Liisa Marton,
Remove the statue, please!

Dennis Lord,

Tony Huynh,
The best place to put his statue should be in the toilet bowls so people can pee and sh!t on his face.

Emel Mutalip,
I was born in Romania, were my grandfather died after 7 years in different political prisons, due to Stalin's KGB in Romania. My family was persecuted for 3 generations by communists. I , myself, had to leave my homeland due to communist persecution. Stalin's Statue in the USA is an offense to all our dreams about our principles that made us seek freedom in the USA.

Urmo T,
Stalin maha, raisk!

Anne E Parsons,

Terry Parsons,

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Michael Clurman,
The statue is a disgrace.

Jason,
just wow.....

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The Stalin Bust must be destroyed.

Dmitry Eisner,
Moscow, Russia

uldis silgailis,

Susan Stanley,

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alla sinclair,
This is a disrespect to all the people that has been killed under stalin's ruling.

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May he rot in Hell!

Fran Nielsen,
It is plain wrong to have Stalin bust at the D-Day Memorial.

ralph myers,
I am a veteran and my dad was a vet of WWII I think this s a travesty!! Take it down NOW!!

Hieu Nguyen,

Tiina Eldridge,
Stalin belongs on the same page of history as Hitler. He was a murderer and an evil dictator with no regard for human life! He killed tens of millions of innocent people, more than Hitler did and most before World War II ever began. He should be reviled, not praised! He killed Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Georgians, Ukranians, Russians, Poles. The list is too long to go on in this forum. He also took American soldiers as prisoners after the end of the war and sent them to Siberia. How dare the directors of a D-Day Museum put up any remembrance or honor to this evil dictator. He richly deserved the same end as Adolf Hitler--or worse. Patton was right--the Allies should have gone on to Moscow after Berlin.

Midge Ovenshire,
I resent the idea of a fellow American that we would accept this statue anywhere in our country, especially at the D Day Memorial. Take it down.

Raja Raudsepp,

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I cannot believe that it was ever considered to be exhibited. When I contributed to the D Day Memorial there was no mention of this sort of monument.

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Mark,
This man is a cold blooded murderer his statue should be in a trash dump!

Waldo Johns,

PHUOC THIEN LE,

Maarten van der Bent,

Von Nale,

Miss Kris Madson,
Too many Lives have been lost directly as a result of communism to glorify this man even if he did fight on our side in WWII. Too many American lives have been lost in fighting against communism to allow any of his purported aid to our cause in that war . It was a war for their lives and land that got them into the WWII more than any Nobel deed of that country, and that man. Self preservation that morphed into the land grab after the War and far worse atrocities of the people of russia that suffered under communism .

Patrick and Jennifer Leslie,

Janos Csokai,
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Lynne McMaster,
WHAT are you people thinking? A statue of a mass murderer is disgraceful and ugly. Who's next? Jeffrey Dahmer?

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Judy Downey,

Rebecca Cox,
America is the last stand for FREEDOM. If America falls, to what place can the world flee? THIS IS IT! UNITED WE STAND! STAND TOGETHER AND BE COUNTED!

armins muiznieks,
stand up for freedom not murders and people who think controling people is a way of life letts not forget about GOD.

William Moe,
This, along with the alleged "rationale" behind it, are outrageous. As a citizen and Vietnam combat vet, I can't believe it.

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Loretta Seals,

Claire Morgan,

Lynn Huggins,

Oksana Kuzyszyn,

Jerry Jirak,

Nguyen Ngoc Khoan,

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Chris Bubany,

Bruce L. Brinkman,
I support this 100%. I have a started a group on Facebook called "Get Stalin Out". So feel free to look at that and leave any comments. God Bless the U.S.A.

Robert Vidrick Jr,
This bust desecrates the memory of those who lost their lives during the Normandy invasion. The Soviets were not involved in it. The man committed genocide on his own people. His hometown recently removed a statue of him.

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If some members of the D-Day Memorial Committee insist on keeping the Stalin statue, why don't they move to Gori, Georgia, Stalin's home town, where they have a museum which is a tribute to Stalin -- they would fit in great there, and, oh by the way, take the sinister statue of Stalin with them.

Even the Soviet Union began de-Stalinization in 1953, the year the criminal Stalin died. In the late 1980s and early 1990s all nation's oppressed by Stalin tore down statues and other rememberances of the dictator. If the D-Day Committee won't remove this insulting, stupid statue, then the citizens of Bedford, the Commonwealth of Virginia and the USA will surely see it is removed!

C. Smith,
When shall we expect the Hitler bust to go along with this?

Melissa Smith,

Catharine S. Sulzman,

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Joan Lang,
I cannot believe that you would insult all of our veterans by doing such a stupid thing! I am just sick to death of all the "politically correct" things that stupid people come up with. Where is your sense of honor to your country??? Where do all these stupid people come from with their stupid ideas like that? And, who had to pay for this ridiculous statue?? You should all be ashamed of yourselves! I am certainly ashamed of you!

Kim Smathers,
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THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE TO THE SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT AND DIED IN WWII TO SHARE THIS SPACE WITH THIS BUTCHER. WHAT THE HECK WERE THEY THINKING TO PUT THIS MAN WHO BROUGHT SO MUCH AGONY TO HIS OWN PEOPLE AND TO OTHERS.

Rachel Aschmann,

Rebecca Meldrum,

ROBERT l.VIDRICK SR. COL USA (RET),
THE INTENT OF THE DDAY MEMORIAL WAS TO GIVE HONOR TO THOSE OF THE MILITARY THAT GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR INDEPENDENCE. STALIN WAS OPPOSED TO THE LOCATION AND TIME OF THE INVASION. WHO EVER CAME UP WITH THE IDEA DOES NOT HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF MILITARY HISTORY.

Mark,
Stalin murderd over 20million of his own people, making him one of the greatest mass murderers of all time, second only to Mao.

Theresa Smart,

sandra cannizzo,
It's like putting up a statue of Hitler there!!! DISGUSTING!!!! Have you read history???????

Linda Simpson,

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The bust of Stalin was a ridiculous idea--a terrible message to the memory of Bedford boys that died on D-Day and their families.

Al Adams,
This is outrageous!! Stalin was a mass murderer. As a veteran..I am astounded by your ignorance of who that man was!!

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That statue does NOT belong there!!!

Linda Manzo,

Mike Robbins,

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Thomas R. Mc Kee,
Send it to Russa! How stupid has this country become? Is a Hitler memorial next>

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Kevin M. Mertins,
Stalin has no place in any honorary memorial,
because he was a brutal dictator who does not
deserve an honorable place in an America that
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Helen M. Szablya, Hon. Consul of Hungary WA, OR, ID,
Stalin personally admitted to killing more people than did Hitler and we are erecting a statue for him? If need be, erect a statue to the tens of millions who had truly died in the Soviet Union, who were suffering from Stalin as much as Germans were suffering under Hitler.

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Stalin planned to murder our nation but he didn't succeed because in winter war we fought too hard back. But he robbed about 11-12 % Finnish soil. After the winter war he still wanted to murder our nation. He even sent his whore-dog Molotov to the Berlin to ask Hitler's permission to murder our nation. This led to the another war against the Russians. At the same time Stalin made his plans what he will done when his troops are in our capital city Helsinki: About 150 000 Finns will be exterminated and other he will send to the Siberian concentration camps. He even said that it will be easy to move Finns to the Siberia because our nation is so small. How you guys can make statues for this psychopath? He invaded Poland and even sent those Jewish (who were able to escape) to Hitler. He attacked Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Bessarabia. He was just another Hitler and there was concentration camps all over the Russia. He was lunatic massmurderer, communist pig who don't deserve any statues or celebrations. It was enough disgusting to see US troops marching in Moscow's victory parade. Now you want to insult Finland and all other victims even more with that statue. Disgusting!

Ionescu Ana-Maria,

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Stalin planned to murder our nation but he didn't succeed because in winter war we fought too hard back. But he robbed about 11-12 % Finnish soil. After the winter war he still wanted to murder our nation. He even sent his whore-dog Molotov to the Berlin to ask Hitler's permission to murder our nation. This led to the another war against the Russians. At the same time Stalin made his plans what he will done when his troops are in our capital city Helsinki: About 150 000 Finns will be exterminated and other he will send to the Siberian concentration camps. He even said that it will be easy to move Finns to the Siberia because our nation is so small. How you guys can make statues for this psychopath? He invaded Poland and even sent those Jewish (who were able to escape) to Hitler. He attacked Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Bessarabia. He was just another Hitler and there was concentration camps all over the Russia. He was lunatic massmurderer, communist pig who don't deserve any statues or celebrations. It was enough disgusting to see US troops marching in Moscow's victory parade. Now you want to insult Finland and all other victims even more with that statue. Disgusting!

Dana Petran,

Anne Kungla,
Stalin?- who are you kidding. Time to remove him now.

Indrek Ott,

Marjorie Littleton,

Karlis Karklins,
Even the Russians knocked down Stalin's statues. Why does the ND-DMF see the necessity to honor this viscious tyrant?

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John Perry,
This memorial is a tribute to people who stood up against tyranny and oppression. Many gave their lives to defeat Hitler, Mussolini and their ilk. Stalin was a murderous tyrant whom we should have marched on to defeat, rather than be included with the victors of the second World War!

Uve Hodgins,
How about adding his pal Adolf too?

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Cynthia Butler,
I don't care if I am in Arizona, NO statue of Stalin should exist on American soil EVER.

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Paul Pan,
The Stalin bust must be removed and destroyed

Maria Barnes,
Having a bust of Stalin at the National D-Day Memorial is both an outrage and an embarassment.

debra goff,

Beth Beck,
This is an insult, remove at once.

charles byrd,
Are u guys nuts? Stalin killed as many innocents as Hitler...maybe more.

Ralph W. Davis,
Unbelievable that America would memorialize a beast like Stalin...

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Brian Matt,
I visited the D-Day memorial on Memorial Day 2010 and was quite impressed by my cursory visit. I am shocked that a tyrant who had NOTHING to do with the valor of Allied Forces on the beaches of Normandy is honored with a bust.

Henry Marton,
Even ignoring Stalin's monumental evil, the USSR had no role in the events of D-Day. Remove the bust fom the D-Day Memorial and remove the person who elected to have it put there.

Hoanbui,
Stalin bust must be removed as quickly as possible

Janos Szablya,
Please, So many died at his hands who fought to liberate the world after the war. Stalin does not deserve to be remembered for his role. Please read the history of the war.

Janice Seigfried,

Barbara Stroh,

Donald Stroh,

allen hoffmann,

Gregory Knox,
For crying out loud, what were these people thinking, putting up a bust of this murderer of 40 million people. Take it down now! A bust of Stalin has no place in a free state let alone in a memorial to our brave soldiers who died fighting against the very things this butcher stood for. Good grief.....

Harold Mathews,
No Stalin Statue!!

Sean Sculley,
This man Reed, the self -styled "life long educator", a shameless promoter of one of history's consummate murderers, should sent packing along with the bust of his vile exemplar.
Where indeed was this "educator" "educated"?
And more to the point, who or how was this useful idiot assigned to this post?
This is both sickening and a National disgrace.

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I can't believe it. Stalin deserved nothing, but hell.

Jeremy Ghea,
He's was a butcher, a dictator, and he was in no way American. Tear down this statue. It is a disgrace to those who fought for freedom.

Laszlo Hamos,
The mere thought to honor the dictator responsible for butchering millions is outrageous and an insult to the memory of the Hungarians and many others who fought and died for freedom from tyranny. It is anathema to every value the United States stands for and the Hungarian Human Rights Foundation has sought for decades. Mr. Salazar, tear down this statue!
László Hámos
President
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Michael Arko,
If the moral and political conviction of the so-called civilized and Christian West is of such a kind, then God help Europe and the world. Tu ne cede malis!

Tamas Kovacs,

Ramlna Crotinger,

Liem Ky,

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Last year their newspapers and their official military web page threatened us with war. DO NOT BROTHER WITH RUSSIANS! Remove that statue!

Rasma Gertners,

T. E. Proctor,

Marc Allen,

Joe Kilpatrick,

Meriam Matthews,
It's outrageous that this was even considered to begin with. This is America!

Harry Albert Wellons Jr,
Unbelieveable! To honor a tyrant is wrong

Richard Kirschner,
Stalin, one of several dictators and despots who murdered people, simply because they could. May he rot and his name be forgotten (but not his actions).

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Any attempt to re-write history, proclaiming a brutal mass murderer as a hero of the D-day invasion is a slap in the face of those who gave their last measure in the cause of freedom. To stubbornly entrench yourself in some idealized version of Joseph Stalin is to turn your back on history, and to open the door for future despots. If you have any sense of the historical battle for freedom from oppression, you will remove this statue. Now.

Martha Kleder,
A tribute to a Soviet dictator has no place at the D-Day Memorial.

R. Breeden,

Tom Atkinson,
It is a shame and disgrace to see the image of a Communist dictator and mass murdered associated the D-Day memorial! My father, who fought in that great battle, would roll over in his grave if he knew what was going on there!
Take it down!!!!

leo brown,
what beach did they land on

Linda Anderson,
You have got to be insane to even try to do this in the first place.

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Come on.

Ann Greer,

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Sarah Hamilton,
I can't believe this was even done!

Tracy Price,
This is an outrage and an afront to the men who died on D-Day defending freedom. Stalin was never a real ally; it was an alliance based upon a mutual enemy.

Tuan Nguyen,

Tarmo Saks,

Jorg Ebert,

Nancy Merinel,

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kathryn drewry,
this is sooo wrong. what did stalin have to do with d-day??

Margot Ruusma,
My mother's side of family was destroyed and I never knew or met my motherand father in law because of this murderer

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He had killed too many people.Why we still honor him?

Mark Levit,
I, Mark Levit was born in Soviet Union, and I know its history pretty well. I know Stalin was a mass murder, who killed millions its own people. It was his fault that 27 millions of soviet people have perished in World War II. It is a shame his statue was erected the National D-Day Memorial Foundation.

Mark Levit, US citizen

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WHO thought up this bone headed idea of displaying a statue of one of the most notorious murderers of the 20th century. Tell me again how many Russians were in the D-Day invasion.

Ghery S Pettit,

Cyril Cherednichenko,
Remove and destroy the statue of mass murder!

James Christian,
Stupid is as stupid does, but that is the socialist way of doing things.

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This would be an abomination!

James C Krupp,

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An absolute disgrace to have a statue of Stalin..anywhere, much less at The D Day Memorial. Please.

EVGENI ANISIMOV,
no Stalin AND no Rusevelt AND no CHerchil
JUST TROOPS FROM RUSSIAN, AMERICAN & BRITISH
SIDES. LEAN HISTORY! READ BOOKS FROM ALL SIDES THAT BLADY WAR. CHILDREN IN USA PUBLIC SCHOOL LEAN AMERICAN HISTORY ABOUT 10 YEARS(200 YEARS HISTORY) & 1 OR 2 YEARS WORLD HISTORY!!!! THINK ABOUT TOO.

Kevin Joyce,

Boris Ravdel,

Veaceslav Vasiliev,
sorry for my english I speek wel just roumanian, russian and french
I love USA, remove pls the bust of this murderer.
I sign for my father who was deportated with his family
in 1940 from Basarabia(Moldova) to Siberia.
I sign for my grandfather Ilie Vasiliev, killed in siberian GULAG (Ivdellag)

Eli Rosenblum,
Yes, the Red Army finished the nazis and Stalin was its supreme commander, but it doesn't change the fact, that Stalin is murderer of millions of innocent people! No memorial should be erected in his honor!

Balazs Nemethy,
If you are making a memorial for mass murderers you have the right choice

Camorim,
Tear down that statue. A bad memory must be burried

Janet A. Adams,
Why do celebrate monsters when we should be upholding those who died under their rule?

ARMAND SCALA,
SHAME ON THOSE RESPONSIBLE

Pamela Willoughby,
With hold donations/funding until the Stalin bust is removed.

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What next? A statue of Hitler?

Charles Hamilton,
What braniac decided it was appropriate to support the bust of one of the most horrific mass murderers in human history. What a crock.

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The statue should smashed.

Daniel J. Leonard,

Cecilia Rekay,
NO Stalin statue, PLEASE

Andrew Rekay,

Annamarie Gonda,

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James L Hawn,
Is there a Bust of George Washinton In Moscow? I'll bet not, nor are there any plans for such. Take this representation of evil down and drop it in the ocean.

Vadim Shpak,

Rolands Juris Abermanis,
What are you thinking?? This mass murderer recognized with a statue? Please do the right thing.

Connie Powers,
Remove the Stalin bust. It does not belong at the D Day Memorial. It is a slap in the face for those that served our country. My husbands uncle Jack Powers would approve of having this displayed.

Fay,
what a disgrace!! this is the same horrible thing as allowing a mosque to be built at the site of Ground Zero!!

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Joan & Don Hamilton,
A statue of Stalin has no place in the USA, we lost too many people to keep these types of things out!

Lisa Svoboda,
Honestly........what were they thinking?

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I am considering withholding future donations that I would have made to the D Day Foundation

marge gregoric,

Michael D. Collie,
Don't put this mass murder's statue on American soil, especially with our Heroes!!

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James Condon,
Ukrainian Genocide is STILL not recognized

Adam Fronczyk,

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David Szakacs,
That's a slap in the face.First of all Stalin wasn't involved in D day. Second how can they put up a bust of a man who annihilated his own people????? and lastly Stalin would have loved to destroy the US.

W A Dennison Jr,
Totally inappropriate and an insult to our veterans

Scott Lewis,
Clearly we have lost the ability to reason.

Kurt Lindell,
Hey, why not busts of Tojo, Hitler and Mussolini? Since this guy is on a roll how about a memorial honoring Pol Pot? … Disgraceful !

Libby Dunn,

lamngoc le,
All the communist leaders in the world as staline
are the human's muderers.

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My daddy fought in WWII and this is an insult to his memory. Have you all lost your minds? Quit being so politically correct and do the right honorable thing and take the statue down. As a REAL American I cannot understand why this was even considered and completed. Be true to your country!

Teresa Reed,
This is not Russia and he is not our hero, he was a murderer! He deserves nothing in our country!

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Jeff Brower,

Vadim Baev,
Murderer should be in the hall of shame!

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How Dare you place a bust of STALIN!a DICTATOR who Killed MILLIONS of people,at a D DAY memorial,for OUR VETERANS WHO FOUGHT toSAVE people fromTYRANNY,OPPRESSIONand to FREE people!!!What are you thinking???? Do not let this abomanation go on any further!

Jane Hawn,

Lazar Fleishman,

Michael,
Americans as usial are deceived by their TV propaganda. Stalin's tactic was THE ONLY reason of allies D-Day landing. At the moment of landing at June 6, 1944, the 30-million soldiers Red Army was defeating 16 millions of German army at East Front and was moving very fast to Berlin. Western leaders were very afraid of this power.
So when the result of WW2 was simply predetermined, they sent 156 thousands of soldiers (obviously LOL quantity) to kill the weak and tired part of German army in France. The real reason of D-Day was to prevent Russians from moving to Atlantic Ocean.

I DO NOT SIGN this silly petition.

Dear Americans, read the historical books to get know the truth, not your TV shows and other propaganda.
Read books.

Dmitry Kulko,

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Barbara B Witt,
This is terrible .. Take it down

Nikolay,
Without Stalin and the people of the USSR no day-D.
Stalin was the severe dictator, but the monument to him was put by your ancestors.

Can they thought that are obliged to him by something?

Perhaps before day-D Stalin has given the order on solving approach of red army to delay Hitler's forces on the east and to give the chance to your ancestors to land?

Wish to take down it? Destroy like a communists with monuments of history in Russia.
Be at war with monuments, be at war with your ancestors and their belief.

Stalin in a coffin and cannot answer.

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This shows such an ignorance of our history and the history of WWII, which, if anyone remembers, ended in Europe with the Soviet occupation of Berlin (the beginning of the "Iron Curtain"). I am saddened that this country would sink to such depths.

Steven Marshall EN1 U.S.N.(RET.),
What moran thought of this

Jo,

Jerry McConville,
And where will you put the bust of Osama????

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Stalin was a mass-murderer in his own right. Are you forgetting the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact (also known as Hitler-Stalin pact) that divided Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union, and was the direct prelude to WWII? Stalin first embraced Hitler's National Socialism. The role of the Soviet Union in the ultimate defeat of Nazi Germany is undeniable, and the sacrifice the Soviet (mostly Russian) soldiers made must be honored. However, even that is unrelated to D-day. In addition, if they were alive today, many of those Soviet soldiers who fought against Nazi Germany might have serious objections against honoring Stalin. Stalin himself does not deserve recognition; his statue has just been taken down in Georgia (he was ethnic Georgian, and had retained some popularity there for that reason). If the Georgians take down the tyrant's statue, we are going to honor him? Where are your values???

Catherine Turner,
Despicable. What on earth are you people thinking?? Precisely WHAT is being commemorated by this? Multiculturalism = Insanity!

Janice Stevens,
God Bless America, and our brave and honorable soldiers who have kept us safe throughout time.

Paul Grigsby,
I am a veteran of 22 years service in the army and I fully agree this statue has no business along side or near any American hero.

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Get Serious and do if fast. This is the USA - land of the free and home of the brave and NOT some communist fascist nation

Roman Stelmach,
I ALSO STAND FOR THE MILLIONS OF UKRAINIANS KILLED BY STALIN BEFORE AND DURING WORLD WAR II HIS BUST HAS NO PLACE AT THIS MEMORIAL LET ALONE USA SOIL. A DISGRACE THAT THE BUST STILL STANDS!

Genie Zunic,
I was seriously thinking of taking my grandchildren to the D-Day Memorial over summer vacation but am now reconsidering that trip. My father fought in WWII and I feel this is a slap in the face of all those who served. To elevate Stalin in such a way is a disgrace!

Istvan Prileszky,
Aside from being one of the most murderous tyrants of the 20th century, which alone should disqualify him from any memorial, even his own, the Soviets did not participate in the D-Day invasion. True, the Soviet role in keeping the Nazi forces engaged on the Eastern Front may have contributed to Operation Overlord's success, but Stalin's evil history overshadows any good that may have come of Soviet actions. Regardless, Soviet forces played no direct role in the Normandy invasion, and as such, have no place in a memorial dedicated to “honor the valor, fidelity, and sacrifice of Allied forces on D-Day.” This is an outrage that cannot stand.

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Please remove this disgusting statue from the D-Day Memorial. We are honoring patriots who gave their lives for this country, not this murderer who had nothing to do with the sacrifices made on D-Day.

Susan Nagy Luks,

Jonathan D. Martin,
The notion, not to mention its implementation, to erect a bust or any other likeness of Joseph Stalin in US memorial is morally destitute and reprehensible. Just who do the Board of Directors think they are?!

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Susan Hensley,

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That is an absolute disgrace and insult to the American people and to all veterans that participated in that landing. A bust of Stalin anywhere in the USA is an insult to all true Americans and patriots.

Kenny Hopkins,
It should never have been built. Stalin entered the war only after Russia was invaded after Hitler promised not to in a treaty. Did Russia enter combat with Japan? But they got half of the countries territories North of the 38th parallel which has since caused two wars and 100,000 American lives.

Tear it down!

Dennis J. Wisnosky Jr,

C. Thomas Patterson,
Stalin was also allied with Hitler, before the invaison of the USSR. He became an ally with us only when it was only necessary for his survival..

Billy,
Things like this is whats wrong with America today.

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Remove this statue NOW!!! He has NO place in this country. What is wrong with you!!!!! GET RID OF IT NOW!!!

bob & fay gibson,
why in hell is it there in the first place. we were planning a trip there, but this sours things. obama sent churchills bust back to england. send this back to russia(in fragments)

J S Wygal,
Give the bust to the families of Stalin's purges victims...see what they would do with it.

Catherine Mason,

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This country stands for truth! Stalin does not belong there!!!!!

Nancy Luce,
Stalin statues are being removed in Russia. They should not be added in Bedford, Va

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This is more than offensive. It is denigrating to our veterans and is more than a slap in the face to the US citizens.

Mark Snider,

Kenny Smith,

Bob Phillips,
Stalin's image is an insult to all those who died for freedom on D-Day.

Chris Smith,
Murdered people in the millions. Disgusting....

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the bust should be dismantled!

Stella Honeycutt,
Please remove bust. What is happenig that states would even think of such a thing let alone doing it.

Helen Alexandra Szablya,
This is a complete slap in the face of the many people who died at the hand of Stalin. It should be removed immediately!

John Watts,

Sivana,
Szed le!

Klaudia Kovacs,

David Overstreet,
I wonder if whoever made the boneheaded decision to put this bust here is the same person who was making decisions that contributed to low revenues for the memorial. Placing a bust or statue can only be considered as an honor, and those who wish to "tell the whole story" could certainly do so without honoring Stalin. Take it DOWN, put it someplace else!

Terry Kindle,
This man was a murderer. He has no place amongst our honored war dead. Return this bust to wherever it came from or put in the city dump.

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The person who fired the volunteer should be the one fired!!!!!

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Stalin was a tyrant, murderer of many millions and definitely shoud NOT be honored .. the bust should liste his atrosities with the bust.

Jane Zurakowski,
At only 14 years of age my grandpa escaped from conscription into the Red Army with only the clothes on his back. He travelled all the way from Ukraine to Canada hidden in the hull of a cattle boat. I thank God Almighty that he and grandma aren't here to see this. I really don't think it's possible to feel more ashamed of this country than I am now. Where is our George Washington?

Bill Calkins,
This is like putting a bust of Saddam Hussein in a Gulf War memorial.

Dr DARIUS FURMONAVICIUS,

Joyce Graffagnino,
IT HAS NO PLACE HERE IN THE USA!

Richard Beckham,

Aliisa Altau,

Susan Wallcraft,
What?????!!!! You've got to be kidding! How could this have happened?

Barry R. Meiners,

Patricia Wagner,

Kim Cook,
Do the right thing: remove that mass murderer

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Susan Carleson,

Robert Gibson,
Remove the Evil from our sight!

David Goodspeed,
Put it (Stalin's statue) in a jar of urine and bury it!

Carolyn Kurtz,

Jaime M. Medeiros,
The statue of the butcher Stalin must re removed.
It is an insult to all those who perished and faught to liberate Europe.

victor zolotarev,
Сталин создатель ГУЛАГА - организатор массовых убийств невинных людей

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Jordan Yentsch,

anne,

David Swanson,
Outrageous and Disgusting!

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Last time I checked he killed how many of his own people?

Harry Chaplin,
Since when do we honor Communist butchers?

ROGER TRUDEAU,

David F. Sebastian,
Communists have no place at the memorial.

John Lapka, Jr.,

Gerard Ramsey,

Herman Verkruissen,
Information of Stalin must be made so that our future generation can know what a evil man he was, as for the bust it needs to removed.

eric finsterwald,
This guy killed more than Hitler did! OUT, damned Commie!

David T, Medley, Sr.,
Convict, & remove all un Christain & un American thuds !

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Lee Mullen,
What is this great country coming to.

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Stalin was a thug and he has no business of having a bust anywhere, especially in the USA.

David J Sharp,
He executed millions of people-who made this decision?

Steven Ewing,
It is clear that a large number of Americans have no clue as to how evil Stalin was, nor do they seem to remember that Stalin and Hitler were allies at the beginning of WW 2 and together carved up Poland between them.

Joseph Jurkiewicz,
No place for a Dictator!

Kevin O\'Reilly,
The person whose idea it was to include Stalin needs a "check-up from the neck up."

James McILROY,
Get Rid of STALIN NOW

Jeff Weber,

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Stalin was a ruthless murderer of inocent people. He was a Socialist ally of Hitler until Germany invaded Russia. There is no place in the civilized public square for ANY image of any kind of this monster!

John W. Jones,

Walter Jones,

John Corbin,
D Day was about crushing tyranny, not honouring it!

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Lt Colonel Philip Moore,
As a career US military officer, I am appalled a statue or bust of Stalin is anywhere in the USA. Historical excuses are ridiculous - is Hitler next? He was a part of WWII history.

David Dale,
With massive amount of blood dripping from his hands with the purge of the 1930's through the early 1950's est. of about 75-100 million Russian
citizens who opposed his regime were exterminated. A seat of honor is not appropriate in this manner but a disgrace!

robert koziol,

Walt Copley,
I transends rational thinking to learn that anyone is supporting the display of Stalin in a place of honor with the Allies fo WWII. For tax money to be used for any miniscule part of support for the memorial including Stalin is an insult to everyhone in the United States -- particularly the troops who were arrayed against Stalin and his successors to keep the out-of-control Soviet Union from taking over the rest of the world. Others with more personal experience who have related above their stories of life under the Soviet dictatorship have said it more succinctly.

Earl M Ballou,

Carol C Dorsey,
Absolutely absurb!

frank navy,
a bust of this DEMON at the D-Day Memorial is totally un-American and must be removed.

Mary Culver,
Don't ruin the rest of my life with this!

L.Priola,

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This idea is crazy. Stalin murdered more people than Hitler and you're honoring him? What's next, a bust of Hitler?

Stephen Struk,
This evil, murderous monster created the world's first Man-Made famine and starved 7-8,000,000 Ukrainian men, women, and children to death. He allied with Hitler at the start of WW 11. He is the second biggest murderer in human history next to Mao. TAKE THIS STATUE DOWN!!!!

Stephen Struk, 1/Lt., USMCR, Cumberland, R.I.

Virginia Olafson,

David Van Ausdall,

Mel Steenwyk,
My Uncles fought in World War 2 to liberate their homeland from tyranny after becoming American Citizens.

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It appears that the original committe does not know History. Like the old saying, if you don't know history, you will tend to repeat it. What Stalin did should not be honored on American soil

Thomas E Rudy,
DISGRACEFUL !!!

David Richards,
Are you crazy! Take this statue down!

F. RONDON,
THAT COMUNIST MURDERER,SHOULD NOT BE THERE .....THANKS..AND GOD BLESS,AMERICA....

Nancy Cahalan,

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What a insult to American Veterans

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DO IT NOW REMOVE THIS EVIL MAN FROM USA SOIL, grind him up and melt him down, if he is bronze and use the material to kill terrorists who, are the evil ones killing today.

The focus should be on American sacrifice to overcome this evil man and empire.

Get a backbone and remember the evil this man caused the world !

Marie Grippy,
This "BUST" must be removed, it's a slap in the face of my father and all those who fight and who will continue to fight for freedom in our Country.

wayne richard,
God bless America and those who fought for our freedom!

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Who is responsible for including Stalin?

charles williams,
Obama's support of displaying Stalin's bust, is further evidence of Obama's communist agenda.

Frank BELLET,
Stalin was ten times worse than Hitler. Stalin was the worst mass murderer in history

Pat Walker,
I was outraged when I heard of this Murder's bust even existing in our nation. Yes, know history. But NO statue.

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This killer of millions has no right, historical or otherwise , to be enshrined at this monument.

Srini Varadarajan,
Stalin gave NO troops for D-day, and was Hitler's ally until late 1940--the two tyrants carved Poland between them, and massacred many of the Poles prior to the time that Hitler launched "Barbarossa" to take-over Soviet Union itself.

As an Indian politician had stated about communism in 1990, "it has no relevance in India, nor anywhere else in the world", an analogous statement can be made about Stalin: "he is now dead, even in his own country they didn't want him immediately after his death--his tomb was moved to an obscure location and places named after him were reverted--and now statues are being torn down even in his home city in recognition of his tyranny; statues and busts of this man, who had no concept of honour, have no reason to exist!"

Norman,
We do not honor dictators, remove that dispicable bust now.

Michael Meder,

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It's absolutely unacceptable to have a bust of this murderer Stalin on the American soil

James Gray,

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susan,
Stalin was just as bad as Hitler. Stalin did not fight with us on this day. This is just a ploy by people who want to glorify Stalin so people will forget how bad he was.

John J. Murtha,
I AM NOT SURPRISED!

Paul E. Carlson,
There should be no memorial to Joseph Stalin on US soil. He is responsible for more murders than anyone else on the planet.

James Gilhooly,

don copelin,

Robert A. Schofield,

Carl Fuselier,
It is time that Americans take their country back from the Socialist who are trying to skew history to their liking. Remove the bust.

Nancy Morrison,

Marge Nelson,

David Wilcox,
Stalin has no rightfull place in this memorial.

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This is the USA, not Communist Russia. Why Stalin and not our Founding Fathers?. What is happening to our country???? If this administration gets their way we will be another Russia, Cuba, or the Islamic nation. GOD help us all

George W. Reed,
How absolutely and positively INSANE!!

John Russo,
Sir
What in GODS name were you thinking. Do you think if you were under his rule and put up a bust of anybody you wouldn't be arrested and sent to the Gulog!! What a shame!! If you think he's worthy of praise then get out of this country and try Russia.

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He just not belong here.

Rebecca Randolph,
This Stalin bust is a complete disgrace! Our own soldiers who gave their lives, and those who lived to continue the fight for freedom are the true heroes worthy of recognition.

Lynda Meyers,
Of all the INSANE ideas, this is possibly the STUPIDEST! Stalin might have been (technically) an ally during World War II, but THE SOVIETS HAD NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH D-DAY. D-Day was a US/British/Canadian/Australian operation and STALIN DOESN'T BELONG ON A D-DAY MEMORIAL. This is quite apart from the fact that in trms of DELIBERATELY killing innocent civilians, he made Hitler look like an AMATEUR -- Stalin KILLED MORE THAN 20 MILLION PEOPLE IN HIS OWN GULAGS AND IN GENOCIDES/SLAUGHTERS IN OTHER COUNTRIES (Poland, Armenia, Georgia, etc.) WE SHOULD NOT BE HONORING STALIN IN ANY WAY, IN ANY LOCATION, FOR ANY REASON!!! He was one of history's greatest MONSTERS!!!

Ed Davidson,
Stalin's bust does not belong anywhere especially
at the memorial

Victoria Tebo,
Why would a bust of a murderer even be considered in America?

Whit keane,
To me, it's outrageous that effort and money was spent in the 1st place to model and cast the statue. Who & what were they thinking??

Duane Bass,
We dont need no stinking Stalin in these USA ceremonies

Joy McCall,

Thoma & Peggy McCluskey,
My father died in December1944 at the Battle of the Buldge. Stalin was busy murdering Poles, Germans, Americans and Jews so why in the world do we want to venerate a murderer. Seems to make my father's death and my service worthless

Keith Fowler,
Insanity. They did not storm Normandy. Stalin was more like Hitler than Roosevelt or Churchill

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Ronald Amspoker,
Why honor a murderer? Get the staue out of here.

Marvin Powers,
It is an historical travesty and a mockery of morality to have a bust of a person responsible for the murder of millions of people on display anywhere, let alone anywhere near the graves of soldiers who died to let freedom ring. Who ever is responsible for this display must resign immediately. This administration may want to get back the bust of Winston Churchill that it returned to Britain and put it in the place of Stalin. If this administration does not immediately rectify this situation it is just another one of the many evidences that this administration is continuing to follow up on its promise to fundamentally change American in its own progressive, socialistic, communistic, totalitarian bent.

Kevin Coradeschi,

Chuck Burket,
I believe it`s time to do away with the national park service and give the states back their individual rights.

Jeff Sweitzer,

Sandra Hyatt,
America is the land of the free. True Americans have and will die for their freedom.

Daniel Anderson,

Ron Sutton,

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What is happening to our country? This is absolutely ridiculous and the bust should NEVER have been approved and should be removed IMMEDIATELY!
Virginia, what has happened to you?

Robert,
I don't understand why they put Stali on the memorial in the first place because they(Americans) knew what kind of man he was and the millions he murdered

Robert L Staecker,
Stalin was against freedom, and Liberty. He was a mass murder. he needs to go!!!!

gilbert phillips,
THIS is an insult to a free people.

Mary Beth Norton,
It is so sad that anyone under the age of 35 doesn't even know what Communism is or how many people suffered becuase of it.

robert coffey,
i was born in VA, don't disgrace my home state!

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Michael Schwartz,

Nancy Duncan,
No place for this evil man.

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we dont need a bust of Stalin to remind of that he was a murdering monster !!!!

David Forness,
This is not the place for a bust of Stalin. This belongs in the classroom and museums not where we are honoring our treasure.

William E.Laird,
It is inappropriate for Stalin to be there.

Daniel Jones,
Grow up and read a book.

Robert Suggs,

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Tor Finstad,

Marilyn Murphy,

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dwight seawell,
What numb skull came up with the idea to erect Stalin's statue anyway? Too bad he can't be "re-educated" Stalin style.

Henry Oakley,
Him and Obama both must be removed.

Charles M. Hamblin,
This is the most disgraceful thing I have ever seen, Stailn made Hitler lookto be a choirboy. To place his statue in a memorial for those who fought for freedom, NOT tyranny, is the height of absurdity!! What were these people thinking, the bust of Stalin must be removed!!!!!

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Carolyn J. Reger,
Perhaps, just perhaps, Barack Hussein Obama should have an immediate course in History - revealing all the horrors Stalin perpetrated upon humanity.

Dean Whipple,
Stalin was what he was: a terrorist dictator directly responsible for millions of deaths.

Raymond A. Barrett,
This is America, where CAPITALISM is celebrated, life is celebrated, and FREEDOM is celebrated.

Doanld L Whitbeck,
Its an insult to all who die on D-Day, As well as all of the Polish Military Officers killed by Stalin in WWII, and all those who lost their lives after WWII.

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Mr. Rene A. Guay,

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Only the communists in the Kremlin on the Potomac would approve of keeping it.

Dean Brassfield,
No mass murderer should be honored on hallowed American ground!

John McGee,
A foreign mass murderer has no place in a place of honor on American soil.

Miriam Brenner,
that is outrage!!i was born in USSSR,Stalin was a tyrant,a murderer,dictator.He murder over 20 million Russian citizens,,over 7 million by starvation in Ukraine... how and who dare to even think about glory to that criminal? Shame on leftists liberal idiots that totally out of touch ad lack of historical knowledge.
Stalin was a sick,Narcissist that committed a mass murders in USSR and Poland,Czechoslovakia etc... up till today they find in Moscow dead corps in basements of old houses... those who dare to display his statue should be in jail. Idiots!!!!!!

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A disgrace that Stalin would be honored anywhere in USA.

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James J. Van Hare,
My late brother landed on Omaha Beach later in the afternoon on D-Day. He passed away in October 2008, two days short of his 85th birthday. I'm glad he didn't have to see the monster Josef Stalin honored in this manner. Who's responsible for such a stupid idea, anyway?

Jack Morrison,
Take it down, break it up, and melt it into bullets for our troops to use.

Charles A. Wright, Ph.D.,
Appalling failure to define the parameters of the D-Day operation, and to identify the actual participants in it.

DEE,
YOU KNOW DAMN WELL THAT STATUE DOESN'T BELONG THERE....THOUSANDS OF OUR TROOPS DIED FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM ....NOT TYRANTS AND THEIR IDEAS WHO MURDERED MILLIONS INCLUDING THEIR OWN PEOPLE ...WAKE UP

Michael Barker,
Stalin's invasion of Poland, side by side with Hitler after the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Winter War against Finland, but most dire his direct command and responsibility over the genocide in the Ukraine, and mass murders in Russia, Poland, and later Soviet states.

It's horrible that anyone, especially here in the US where the information is freely available, would go to this extent to honor a failed tyrant and mass murderer of unarmed people on the basis that he was a temporary and reluctant Ally.

James Lego,
Stalin, one of the most prolific mass murderers of history. Why not put up a bust of Hitler or Mao or even Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy up there too. HOW SHAMEFUL THIS IS IN AMERICA. This is just another symptom of FREEDOM ship America sinking.

Charles Hanley,
The most brutal dictator in all history should not be honored...ever.

Walter R Mattson,

Frank Stookey,

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Stalin has no place in the D-Day memorial. I have relatives who emigrated from Poland fleeing Stalins Russia. Please remove his bust.

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They took the bust of Churchill and sent it back to GB and then display Stalin's bust instead? You realize where their heart is.

maureen foley,
maureen

Zebulon C. Gardner, Jr.,

Norman Tyndall,
Take Stalin's bust down.

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I think it is an affront to every single person who lost their life either during WWII or during the reveloution. We do not live in a Communist country why should we put a statue of one of the most evil men in history at the National D-Day Memorial? Has everyone gone insane?

Jane Flagg,

James DeMeo,
Stalin was a mass-murderer, worse than Hitler in fact. Why he was added in the first place is stunning. It is indefensible to add him, or to defend his statue now that opposition is being raised to it. REMOVE IT.

John Cerasuolo,

Robert Briel,

David Bonzon,

G Brown,