1/3 of Russians want a leader like Stalin? What total BS. Yeah there are some old Russians that long for communism and the empire. And there are a few young Russians that are equally as stupid.
But it’s a tiny fringe. Like white supremacists in the US. This is yellow journalism trying to drum up war. Leftists have gone from nutty to demented insanity.
Russians don’t think of Stalin as a Communist, in the vein of say, Khrushchev or Brezhnev. Stalin is above ideology to them, he just simply was a dictator. Stalin joined the Bolsheviks, not because he believed in the ideology, he just saw them as the perfect vehicle for his personal ambitions.