Stalin voted third most popular Russian

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Stalin voted third most popular Russian By Dmitry Solovyov Dmitry Solovyov 17 mins ago

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was voted Russia's third most popular historical figure in a nationwide poll that ended on Sunday, despite the famine and purges that marked his rule.

The "Name of Russia" contest run by Rossiya state television channel over more than six months closed on Sunday night with a final vote via the Internet and mobile phones. It drew more than 50 million votes in a nation of 143 million.

Millions of Soviet citizens perished from famine during forced collectivization, were executed as "enemies of the people" or died in Gulag hard labor camps during Stalin's rule which lasted for almost 30 years until his death in 1953.

"We now have to think very seriously, why the nation chooses to put Josef Vissarionovich Stalin in third place," prominent actor and film director Nikita Mikhalkov, one of the contest's judges, said after the results of the vote flashed on a screen.

"We may find ourselves in a situation where absolute power and voluntarism that ignores people's opinions may prevail in our country, if a fairly large part of the nation wants it."

[SevenofNine]

I could understand Peter the Great he was greatest Russia Tsar no Catherine the Great where the love

Also where is Tchikerakry did he invented greatest ballet musical ever Nutcracker

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Some people just don’t learn from the past.

[Ptarmigan]

Stalin is Georgian and was born as Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili. Stalin in Russian means “Man of Steel”. Stalin was consumed with a lot bitterment and self-hate because he was not Russian. Stalin is the personification of evil besides Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, and Osama bin Laden. Saddam Hussein idolized him.