Posted on 04/16/2019 9:25:39 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
A record 70 percent of Russians approve of Soviet leader Josef Stalin’s role in Russian history, according to a poll published by the independent Levada Center pollster on Tuesday.
Stalin’s image has been gradually rehabilitated in the 2000s from that of a bloody autocrat to an “outstanding leader.” President Vladimir Putin has revived the Soviet anthem, Soviet-style military parades and a Soviet-era medal for labor during his presidency.
A record low of 19 percent viewed Stalin’s role negatively, down from 32 percent in 2016.
“Stalin begins to be perceived as a symbol of justice and an alternative to the current government, deemed unfair, cruel and not caring about people,” Academy of Sciences sociologist Leonty Byzov was quoted as saying by the RBC news website.
“It’s purely a mythological image of Stalin, very far from the real historical figure,” Byzov added.
Stalin’s positive approval rating stayed consistent across all age groups, with the exception of the 18-24 age group who were largely indifferent.
Russian society’s perception of Stalin has gone through three transformations in the past two decades, Levada sociologist Karina Pipiya said. Equally positive and negative views dominated the 2000s, followed by more neutral opinions in 2008-2014. Negative and neutral views began to subside in 2015.
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Scratch a Russian and a Tatar bleeds. It was hoped with the fall of Communism that Russia would, after a millenium of naval-gazing, finally join the European concert of nations. Fat chance!
Chuckle...
Evidently, Stalin’s approval rating is even higher among democrats than it is with Russians....
He was Georgian but his name was adapted from a mostly Persian derived name common in South Ossetia.
They don’t think of Stalin as a Communist, he’s almost portrayed now as a Tsar, like his hero, Ivan the Terrible.
He was 5 foot 3 inches.
Maybe those killed by Stalin can’t vote, almost 43,000,000
Are they trying to make Stalin a hero kinda like our estupidos are doing with Che?
Export the movie “The Death of Stalin” as a possible antidote to this insanity. It’s a black comedy based on a black reality.
Putin banned the movie in Russia.
Nobody, anywhere, looks at Europe and thinks they want to follow that path economically, culturally, etc.
The entire problem is that western banks were pushing the idea of making Russia another administrative district of the globalism project.
They preferred to be a nation state trading with others, but retaining sovereignty.
There is a reason that Trump and Putin are the two most hated men by the international establishment. They both favor rational nationalism over the global government being constructed.
LOL, I’d be more worried if Brezhnev’s popularity went up.
Bernie Sanders got to vote in this poll, right?
And they want to isolate the internet there?
As a Russian friend once told me, the Russians of today want the Soviet Union back...minus the Communism.
Upside down world.
- Adam Carolla
Yep.
My Pulitzer proves it.
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