Modern-day Russians have no use for Lenin, Brezhnev or any other Communist leader, but Stalin is different, they don’t even see him as a Communist. They see him as the one responsible for making Russia powerful, despite his methods, much like Ivan the Terrible.
We’ve got high tax, dictatorial state governments in US that should concern us more than being worried about ex-communist (and reportedly low tax) Russia!
“They (Modern-day Russians) see him (Stalin) as the one responsible for making Russia powerful, despite his methods, much like Ivan the Terrible.”
Our Modern-day Russian friends are overlooking that tiny little fact that Stalin was a mass murderer on a scale that puts him up there with Hitler and Mao.