O Avante - Portuguese Communist Party's official newspaper

I was so chocked to read these articles in DN (http://www.dn.pt/), one of the most read newspapers in Portugal, on Monday. It seems that our Portuguese Communist Party decided to compliment Stalin, saying he was a great man; a hero and implying that the "20 million deaths" he was accused of (by his own party, by the way) were excusable (with the "" saying more that it's not true, it was only a conspiracy against their hero).

I know we live in a free country and everybody is entitled to his or her own opinion, but for me that only applies when your opinions/actions don't cause any harm to nobody. Freedom does not mean you can say whatever you want and that you can do whatever you want, freedom is being free yes but respecting those that surround you and their own freedom, and it must be a responsible freedom.

I shiver when I read these news and think of the kids that read this stuff. What are we trying to do erase history? Stalin was one of the worst monsters who ever lived in the world, he was has bad as Hitler, he just was intelligent enough not to invade other countries and to kill all those who were against him, even those of his party.

20 million victims cannot be forgotten, nor the families and friends who lost them, millions who survived gulags and concentration camps, who had to survive the pain of losing family and friends. History cannot be erased like this, people must never forget the atrocities committed by Hitler, Stalin and such other monsters, and they must never forget how evil human beings can be.

Yes Russia was a great ally during the Second World War but that doesn’t excuse Stalin and what happened in Russia and the regions under Russia's control. Helping to win a war against Nazis is no excuse for becoming a Nazi!

And I can't believe that Portuguese don't go out to the streets and force this idiotic editor to resign and chuck him and his journalists out of the country, because defending monsters is something our country should be ashamed of!!! What I find quite amusing is the fact that Portuguese had no problems to manifest against George Bush and the Iraq war, but don't have the balls to do some justice in their own country!!! What do you want? A country who has forgotten the examples of the past, allowing that the same atrocities occur again?

In name of the Portuguese I apologize to the families and friends of the 20 million people who perished under Stalin's rule. Normal Portuguese don't worship monsters! And we don't want to live in a country where Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin's lovers can write barbaric stuff and influence our children's minds!!!

I'm starting to understand what a Polish friend of mine said about Germany's news coverage of the Second World War or the Chinese when Japan "forgot" to put in Japanese history books the atrocities committed by them in the past.