{"id":4027,"date":"2010-06-19T19:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T23:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=4027"},"modified":"2010-06-19T19:01:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T23:01:29","slug":"virginians-engraged-over-stalins-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2010\/06\/19\/virginians-engraged-over-stalins-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginians Engraged over Stalin&#8217;s Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/06\/04\/statue-of-joseph-stalin-to-be-erected-in-virginia\/\">Heritage has the story&#8230;as of June 4, 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This Sunday, people around the world will honor the 66th anniversary of D-Day, when over 160,000 troops from the United States, Britain, France and Canada bravely stormed the beaches of Normandy, marking a turning point in World War II. In Bedford, Virginia, a memorial to the invasion will be unveiled with statues of western Allied leaders, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Harry Truman. The memorial will also include a bust of dictator Joseph Stalin.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Bedford are rightfully outraged. Annie Pollard, a Bedford County supervisor, and a volunteer at the memorial told the Lynchburg News and Advance: \u201cI just don\u2019t think it belongs on the hill with them\u2026To me, he (Stalin) is just a murderer. I just can\u2019t see how he fits in with the memorial. They are people we want to remember. He\u2019s someone I\u2019d rather forget.\u201d&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Related. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victimsofcommunism.org\/\">Victims of Communism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage has the story&#8230;as of June 4, 2010 &#8220;This Sunday, people around the world will honor the 66th anniversary of D-Day, when over 160,000 troops from the United States, Britain, France and Canada bravely stormed the beaches of Normandy, marking a turning point in World War II. In Bedford, Virginia, a memorial to the invasion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4029,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions\/4029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}