It is sad that so many know so little of Stalin in Russia. But remember that in this country we have an electorate that voted in Bill Clinton, not once, but twice. So we have an equal share of ignorant masses.
Solzhenitsyn and many others are still working to straighten the Russians out on this.
IMHO, this article is pretty much crap. You'll find more yearning for Soviet times and the Communists here in the states than in Russia.
Very sad. The Soviet state was a steady killer of millions for decades - through executions, gulags and state-caused famine. Not as well known, and hard to believe, is that even in WWII the Soviet state was still the No.1 killer of Soviet citizens, with the Nazis No.2. Even in wartime, Stalin's regime killed more of its own people than an invading barbaric army ever did.