[Bookshelf]

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!

[\/\/ayne]

That you for supporting me.

Now I keel you.

[gaijin]

He was Georgian but his name was adapted from a mostly Persian derived name common in South Ossetia.

[dfwgator]

They don’t think of Stalin as a Communist, he’s almost portrayed now as a Tsar, like his hero, Ivan the Terrible.

[gaijin]

He was 5 foot 3 inches.

[HangnJudge]

Maybe those killed by Stalin can’t vote, almost 43,000,000

[ryderann]

Are they trying to make Stalin a hero kinda like our estupidos are doing with Che?

[BEJ]

Export the movie “The Death of Stalin” as a possible antidote to this insanity. It’s a black comedy based on a black reality.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Bernie Sanders got to vote in this poll, right?

[apillar]

It's nostalgia. Over time people see the past through rose colored glasses. The Russians of today see the Stalin years as a golden age where Russia became a superpower with a mighty military and the first space faring nation that was feared and respected across the world. Of course they forget the little details that the common folks reaped none of the benefits and were little more than slaves and millions died with millions more being forcible relocated.

As a Russian friend once told me, the Russians of today want the Soviet Union back...minus the Communism.

[bgill]

Upside down world.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Russians are the most effed up white people on the planet.

- Adam Carolla

[EC Washington]

Obviously, none of those polled were related to the 50 Million Russians Stalin executed or starved to death.

[Sam Gamgee]

Which is EXACTLY why Putin is so popular. Many in the West live under this delusion that Putin stole himself into power and that he is unpopular. He is not. Yes, he is a crook, and gives billions to his cronies, but Russians care not.

[M Kehoe]

He’s dead Ivan.

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