[GarySpFc]

Volgograd Mayor Yevgeny Ishchenko also said his city is considering changing some street names in honor of the Battle of Stalingrad, which is widely considered a turning point in World War II.

My wife is from Volgograd (Stalingrad), and we still maintain an apartment there for her daughter. The city is one of the few places in Russia where the communist party still controls. I say they are communist, but that is more in name than fact. The residents have a deep nostalgia for The Battle of Stalingrad, and any feelings for Stalin are for his determination to save the city, and not actual love for him. My wife's father taught his children at an early age that Stalin was an evil man. My wife is the youngest of the group, with some as old as 63, and so you can see he started teaching against Stalin long before Khrushchev unmasked the dictator's true evil.

[spanalot]

"The residents have a deep nostalgia for The Battle of Stalingrad, and any feelings for Stalin are for his determination to save the city"

Stalin was an inept paranoid schizophrenic that slaughtered his best generals.

When Hitler invaded Russia, he became catonic for 2 weeks.

I think this purported affection for Stalin is so much Kremlin PR.

[Lukasz]

and any feelings for Stalin are for his determination to save the city, and not actual love for him.

Stalin doesn’t deserve for any credit for this victory, he didn’t cared for his soldiers nor civilians before, during and after WWII. He has only determination to stay in power, nothing more.

My wife's father taught his children at an early age that Stalin was an evil man. My wife is the youngest of the group, with some as old as 63, and so you can see he started teaching against Stalin long before Khrushchev unmasked the dictator's true evil.

This is proofing only that father of your wife was probably honorable man. But it has nothing to do with Russian education system today.