Disturbing

http://www.enotes.com/genocide-encyclopedia/stalin-joseph

It is pretty disturbing that chess.com allows their best player by rating to use avatar of the worst criminal against humanity ever.

Propaganda of such person names should not be allowed here,what is next,nazis?

Ill hope chess.com make some conclusions

pluuto

If not, I may change my name to hitlerdog.

pluuto stop posting the same subject in the other threads, if u don't like it just complain it to the staff and the will make the decision to have it remove or not. 

It seems like a fair enough subject to me though the spamming isn't okay.

P.S. If they decide there are no enemies on the left, I may take comradedog.

If you're implying that the user is an immoral scheming bar steward, I'm inclined to agree with you pluuto

ok no picture of Stalin, Hitler and Churchchill !! how about Fischer, M.Jackson etc. ? where do you draw the line ? 

http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/justice_freedom_security/judicial_cooperation_in_criminal_matters/l16005_en.htm

That is the line

Are you any better? Afterall you're posing with a gun in your hand in your avatar?

Or let me guess... Taking another human-being's life is justified when it's done for god and country - and as long as the god in question is your god or the defended country happens to be democratic?

 thats to do with prosecuting the people who commit genocide you berk not people who have pictures of them as they're avatar

Do they allow Hitler avatars here?

Where does chess.com draw the line?

Here's good old Adolf showing where the line is:

"It's that-a-way."

Hilarious! Another censor rears his ugly head. Next we'll be reduced to showing pink flowers in our avatars.

 now that would be nice can't see anything wrong with that

Les Fleurs du Mal.

Banned!

Fer chrissakes, lighten up.

This is a chess site.  Not a political correctness site.  Anyone should be able to choose whatever avatar s/he likes, and live with the possible consequences of people thinking s/he is a jerk.

Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, George Bush . . . bring 'em on.

it's pretty hard for westerners to relate to someone from an eastern block country that suffered at the hands of stalin...  i agree with pluuto that pics of stalin should not be allowed as avatars.  as an estonian, his idea of stalin carries no sense of romance.

Well I for one think Stalin was very romantic.

Don't worry, the top player by rating gets banned for cheating every three months anyway. Just give it another month. :)

I always thought of Adolf as Moe and Goering as Curly. But you're right, it does look like that.. maybe he is trying to figure out a way to block it.

 Timothy McVeigh, Charles Manson or Osama bin Laden? How would Americans fell about these guys being used as avatars? Combine them with Hitler, and Stalin still has a higher body count. Flags makes a good point. And I don't want to hear any crap about censorship. This is a private enterprise, and management has every right to control the image of their company by removing images that they find objectionable from the site. Pluuto appears to be holding a gun because he was in the army. This is hardly any reason to compare him with a psychopath.