The Left is a universal sickness, not just a local epidemic.
About the same percentage who think the same here in the US.
78% of american democrats have a favorable opinion of stalin, while the remaining 22 % feel he was just "mis-understood". ;^)
Of course, they could only poll the survivors.....
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.
That's because he's credited with stopping Hitler. They are asking themselves the question, "Who would be better for Russia, Hitler or Stalin?"
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.
The other 50% are dead.
I read somewhere that Russians are fond vodka enimas too.
Mussolini made the trains run on time and Hitler built the autobahnen; those were positive things, right..?
What is with some people?
It must be the 50% of the population that he didn't murder.
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This is the "mentality" we are dealing with in our current relations with Russia. No wonder they support Islamo-fascism (as long as its outside their own borders). Russia will continue to wallow in their own sewage until they come to grips with the horrific criminality of their past.
--Boot Hill
Gee, do 50% of Germans positively assess Hitler's role. Do 50% of Cambodians positively assess Pol Pot's role? Probably not.
It should be noted that anyone around to participate in the poll wasn't murdered by Stalin so the sampling method is a bit skewed. I suggest next time they ask some of those frozen corpses near Siberian gulags they unearth from time to time.
not many americans complained when comrade reno illegally used u.s. military tanks to run over and kill innocent americans at waco.
the clintons got by with it, and the mrs. will the next u.s. president.
Well, at least there is some hope for 37% of the current population there.
All the most widely acclaimed Soviet scholars (Robert
Conquest and Adam Ulam to cite only two) believe that
at least 20 million perished in the gulags and purges
under Stalin. One of the unfortunate characteristics of
human nature is to "mythologize the past". Some people
in Russia today see the disorder and corruption that exists
as Russia struggles toward a more democratic society --
so they tend to look at the past and see only the "order"
that existed under Communism. They view this with a certain
nostalgia as they screen out the horrors of the past that
were part of that history. It brings that well-known
axiom of Santayana to mind: those who don't remember the
past are condemned to relive it.