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This person is sick!

Everyday this same article or a slight variation is posted at least twice on FR. While there is an element of truth to the past history contained in the article it contains many errors and distortions.
The statue that was going to be placed in Volgograd includes Churchill and FDR. It was originally going to be erected in the Crimea, but they rejected it. Then the city of Moscow rejected it. Then the sculptor decided to erect it in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), but the city decided they did not have the necessary funds. :) Less than 5% of the citizens in the Volgograd Region think highly of Stalin, and the rest hate him.
The last I heard the communists represent only about 5% of Russians, are not respected, and generally are those 60 and above. You will find more communists in our American universities than in Russia where the people know better than anyone communism does not work.