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50% OF RUSSIANS POSITIVELY ASSESSES STALIN'S ROLE IN RUSSIA'S LIFE
Novosti ^ | 2005-03-04

Posted on 03/04/2005 1:13:47 PM PST by Grzegorz 246

MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti) - According to 50% of Russians, Joseph Stalin played a positive role in Russia's life; 37% are of the opposite opinion.

These are the results of a representative poll of 1,600 Russians carried out by the All-Russia Public Opinion Research Center in 40 regions, territories and republics of the Russian Federation. The statistic error does not exceed 3.4%.

Joseph Stalin died on March 5, 1953.

Middle-aged people have a negative attitude to Stalin's role, while positive assessments are typical of the elder generation and youth. 46% of people aged 18-24 positively assess Stalin's role in Russia's life and 39% of them assess it negatively.

According to 42% of the polled, today Russia needs a politician like Joseph Stalin and 52% disagree with them.

Most Russians (61%) disapprove the idea of renaming Volgograd into Stalingrad and 23% approve of it.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: dictatorship; nostalgia; russia; saybrainwashed; stalin; stalinism; stalinists
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1 posted on 03/04/2005 1:13:50 PM PST by Grzegorz 246
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Big deal I understand a great many Germans still like Hitler. Those who thought otherwise were not allowed to live. The smart ones got out in time. I doubt very many families with dissenters were left alone by Uncle Joe.
2 posted on 03/04/2005 1:17:10 PM PST by Mark in the Old South (Sister Lucia of Fatima pray for us)
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To: Grzegorz 246
Middle-aged people have a negative attitude to Stalin's role, while positive assessments are typical of the elder generation and youth.

That is thanks to Putin’s historical revisionism.
3 posted on 03/04/2005 1:19:35 PM PST by Lukasz (Terra Polonia Semper Fidelis!)
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To: Grzegorz 246

The Left is a universal sickness, not just a local epidemic.


4 posted on 03/04/2005 1:19:52 PM PST by Zivasmate (" A wise man's heart inclines him to his right, but a fool's heart to his left." - Ecclesiastes 10)
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To: Grzegorz 246

About the same percentage who think the same here in the US.


5 posted on 03/04/2005 1:20:44 PM PST by My2Cents (America is divided along issues of morality, between the haves and the have-nots.)
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To: Grzegorz 246

78% of american democrats have a favorable opinion of stalin, while the remaining 22 % feel he was just "mis-understood". ;^)


6 posted on 03/04/2005 1:21:09 PM PST by pipecorp ('E must be the king. Why? 'E ain't got sh@t all over 'im.)
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To: Mark in the Old South
Big deal I understand a great many Germans still like Hitler. Those who thought otherwise were not allowed to live. The smart ones got out in time. I doubt very many families with dissenters were left alone by Uncle Joe.

I was also going to suggest this was a poll taken of the 50% that lived through the experience. Likely 50% of the folks in the US think hillary clinton is a decent human. When evil can't fool a few people it won't be very successful.

7 posted on 03/04/2005 1:21:45 PM PST by stevem
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8 posted on 03/04/2005 1:24:42 PM PST by Lukasz (Terra Polonia Semper Fidelis!)
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To: Grzegorz 246

Of course, they could only poll the survivors.....


9 posted on 03/04/2005 1:25:12 PM PST by Feckless
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To: Grzegorz 246

Millions of Russiand died in WWII. The memory is still fresh.

Stalin saved Russia and prosecuted the war on the Eastern Front. Saving Russia from Hitler is worth remembering and may very well outweigh his terrible tyrannical reign of fury.

Hei should not be remembered solely as an ogre.


10 posted on 03/04/2005 1:25:15 PM PST by bert (Peace is only halftime !)
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To: Zivasmate

BINGO - we have a winner!


11 posted on 03/04/2005 1:25:49 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Grzegorz 246

That's because he's credited with stopping Hitler. They are asking themselves the question, "Who would be better for Russia, Hitler or Stalin?"


12 posted on 03/04/2005 1:28:45 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: bert

"Saving Russia from Hitler"

His purges of the Red Army's officer class were one of the reasons why Russia came so close to being defeated in 1941.

Stalin deserves no credit for the victory - the Soviet Army, its officers (some of whom were released from the gulags and sent to the front) and the russian people were the victors.


13 posted on 03/04/2005 1:31:36 PM PST by free_european
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To: bert
Most of those people died because of Stalin's stupidity. Fortunately Hitler wasn't more intelligent.
14 posted on 03/04/2005 1:31:58 PM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: Grzegorz 246

Stalin "modernized" Russia, you see. He constructed huge, huge buildings and such. Those Russians alive today are by definition descended from people who survived his slave labor system (at least long enough to reproduce) and therefore they like the results. No surprise.


15 posted on 03/04/2005 1:33:06 PM PST by Dr. Frank fan
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To: bert
Stalin saved Russia and prosecuted the war on the Eastern Front.

Because of his stupidity Hitler had such good occasion to attack SU. We should remember that Stalin killed so many Soviet officers that there was lack of them when Hitler came. That is one of the reasons why they had so big losses.
16 posted on 03/04/2005 1:33:39 PM PST by Lukasz (Terra Polonia Semper Fidelis!)
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Now they need to poll the Ukrainians.


17 posted on 03/04/2005 1:34:45 PM PST by vollmond (Head back to base for debriefing and cocktails.)
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To: vollmond
Now they need to poll the Ukrainians.

and Balts…
18 posted on 03/04/2005 1:35:28 PM PST by Lukasz (Terra Polonia Semper Fidelis!)
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To: free_european
Exactly. Many of Soviet POW's were executed or sent to gulags after they had been "liberated".
19 posted on 03/04/2005 1:35:35 PM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: bert
Stalin saved Russia and prosecuted the war on the Eastern Front. Saving Russia from Hitler is worth remembering and may very well outweigh his terrible tyrannical reign of fury.

Russia was "saved" in spite of Stalin, not because of him.

How many Russian soldiers were killed not by Germans firing at them from in front but by NKVD firing at them from behind?

20 posted on 03/04/2005 1:35:47 PM PST by Dr. Frank fan
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