Friday, June 19, 2009

Soviet Propaganda Circa 1950

Enough with the cult of the person... seriously!!!

Check out this abomination! 

http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=99234

In it you will see the following historical figures... 

Girban Khalil Gibran 
John F. Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln 
Mohandas Ghandi 
Dalai Lama 
Vladimir Lenin 
Marie Curie
Mother Theresa 
Neslon Mandela
Fidel Castro 
Coluche 
Che Guevara
Albert Einstein 
Alexander Fleming 
Muhamad Ali Clay 
Napoleon Bonaparte 
Franklin Roosevelt 
Charles De Gaulle 
John Paul 2
Martin Luther King. 

Which are very human and flawed. 

I would take that list and shrink it to two names... Lenin and Castro.

One who was an idealist and did not survive long enough to see his plan fail and the other who stayed alive long enough to torture, maim and starve a whole country. 

I would definitely keep Napoleon Bonaparate who has a series of wars named after him "Napoleonic Wars".

In short, I think Aoun is more a hysterical figure than a historical one.