D-Day Memorial Builders Still Can't Admit Stalin Bust Was A Mistake

From The Heritage Foundation:


D-Day Memorial Still Can’t Admit Stalin Bust Was a Mistake



The National D-Day Memorial is no longer adorned with a bust of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. The folks running the show there decided to take it down on Tuesday. That would seem fitting, since Stalin was a murderous thug whose initial alliance with Adolf Hitler helped make the Allied invasion at Normandy necessary.



But, unfortunately, this move does not mean the National D-Day Memorial Foundation has come to its senses about the appropriateness of honoring a brutal dictator at a site that is supposed to honor the sacrifices of thousands of American, British, and Canadian soliders. Nor does it mean the Foundation has heeded the outrage its initial memorial design had generated.



Nope. The D-Day Memorial has a plan to relocate Stalin’s bust along with those of Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The Foundation’s idea, apparently, is that grouping the busts together in a different location at the Memorial will help tell the political story of World War II better. Lee Edwards, chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, had this to say:



This plan is even worse than the original placement of the Stalin statue because grouping Stalin with FDR, Churchill and other allied leaders would give the Soviet dictator a moral as well as a political equivalence he does not deserve.



The D-Day Memorial Foundation insisted that its decision was not “a reaction to special interests” that had expressed their opposition, thereby insulting the American Legion which had urged the removal of the Stalin bust. As for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, we admit proudly that we have a special interest in educating people about the myriad crimes and victims of communism, millions of whom died as a result of Joseph Stalin’s tyranny.