I guess they forget how many of their own countrymen he slaughtered.
Stalin — 20th Century Genghis Khan.
nostalgic about the period of his rule and the achievements of his era...
If I knew how to post pictures, and if they were as readily available as the horrific holocaust images, I would post pictures of the slaughter of Russians by Stalin.
The pictures of the holocaust exist mainly because we overran the Germans and our soldiers saw it and our newsmen covered it firsthand.
Not so easy when a dictator is killing his own to have those kinds of photos.