Wasn’t the core of Stalinism to kill or imprison anyone who dared speak against you, and then kill or imprison their friends, family, and associates, and then kill THEIR friends, family and associates... Is Putin doing anything like that?
We could use some Stalinism in the war on terror. Since terrorism is an idea translated into action, the only way to extinguish it is to make the idea die at birth by having its consequences be blatantly severe, ie, “kill or imprison their friends, family, and associates, and then kill THEIR friends, family and associates.”