Attacking, rightfully, the actions of Stalin is not a reflection on the Russian people who took back control of their nation. It is, however, a reflection on those who would like to go back to the days of the USSR.
Putin fanboy club leader = Oliver Stone
Title: “Hitler and Stalin weren’t so bad”
“Hitler is an easy scapegoat throughout history and it’s been used cheaply,” Stone said during a discussion about a 10-hour TV special he’s putting together called “Oliver Stone’s Secret History of America.” Stone believes the American educational system has given kids a distorted view of history’s heroes and villains.
“We can’t judge people as only ‘bad’ or ‘good,’” Stone told the Television Critics Association. “[Hitler] is the product of a series of actions. It’s cause and effect. People in America don’t know the connection between WWI and WWII.”
Of Stalin, who historians believe may have been responsible for 20 million deaths, Stone said: “Stalin has a complete other story. Not to paint him as a hero, but to tell a more factual representation. He fought the German war machine more than any person.”
“Oliver Stone’s Son Works at RT, Russia’s Propaganda Network”
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/oliver-stone-son-sean-stone-russian/2017/06/18/id/796732/
To people today, they don’t see Stalin as a Communist, more like a Czar, in the tradition of Ivan the Terrible, whom Stalin modeled himself after.