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Poll: Nearly Half of Russians Believe Stalin’s Terror Was Justified
Breitbart.com ^ | 04/01/2015 | Mary Chastain

Posted on 04/01/2015 1:40:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

According to a poll by the Levada Center, the enormous economic progress under Soviet Union dictator Josef Stalin justified all the “sacrifices” made by Russians, including the genocide of his own people.

The independent center polled the same question two years ago, but only 25 percent agreed. The latest poll is up to 45 percent.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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1 posted on 04/01/2015 1:40:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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One half of Russia deserve everything they get.


2 posted on 04/01/2015 1:40:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Stockholm syndrome
3 posted on 04/01/2015 1:42:40 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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liberals ...


4 posted on 04/01/2015 1:42:51 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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Holy buckets!! They’re as stupid and immoral as Americans.


5 posted on 04/01/2015 1:43:06 PM PDT by johniegrad
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Looks like Vlad Putin’s rehabilitation of Stalin is working.


6 posted on 04/01/2015 1:43:55 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The way I see it, the Russians have a peculiar type of cultural stupidity. Its like they think its their destiny to be ruled by serial tyrants. Who’s to argue with Russian people that know Russians, maybe he was justified.


7 posted on 04/01/2015 1:44:49 PM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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Well, they wouldn’t be Russians if they weren’t actually the Russians, they are who they are, because of who and what they are as a people.


8 posted on 04/01/2015 1:46:24 PM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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Liberals in general think that, in order to achieve the leftist communist utopia, there “will be some tough times” in the interim until the perfection is achieved.

But that perfection is SO worth the struggle to get there, that anything can be justified when weighed against it.


9 posted on 04/01/2015 1:47:36 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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The Putin government has gone to great lengths to shut down historical review of that period. The group "Memorial" has been a special target. Russian Soviet-era remembrance group Memorial risks closure
10 posted on 04/01/2015 1:48:01 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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Nailed it.


11 posted on 04/01/2015 1:50:14 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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I’ve heard similar things about Mao from Chinese friends. It’s this mentality that explains why humanity has allowed so many sociopaths to rise to power. I personally believe it’s the same mentality that leads to the almost literal worship of celebrities - including those whose lives are essentially a disaster.


12 posted on 04/01/2015 1:50:44 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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Too bad there is no way to poll the the millions that he murdered.

Idiots


13 posted on 04/01/2015 1:52:49 PM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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“I mean, you take your average Russkie, we all know how much guts he’s got. Hell, lookit all them Nazis killed off and they still wouldn’t quit.”


14 posted on 04/01/2015 1:55:23 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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It's people thinking 1) "We were a superpower" and 2) "We won WWII."

It's not so much a rational, well-considered approval of what Stalin did, it's an angry reaction to Russia's loss of the power it once had.

15 posted on 04/01/2015 1:57:20 PM PDT by x
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Most Cubans believe that Che’s murders were justified.


16 posted on 04/01/2015 2:00:57 PM PDT by TexasGator
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This poll result indicates that those who voted do not know what life was like in the 20’s and 30’s in Russia. Or, they have not been told about or read “The Gulag Archipelago” by Alekzandr Solzhenitsyn. I have read all three volumes and each is filled with what life was like for those who even hinted at being dissenters. A.S. was given 8 years for writing to a fellow veteran that he did not think that Stalin's next “5 year plan” would succeed. I guess the “Black Marias”, the transports that whisked prisoners away in the dead of night, are no longer in use. Solzhenitsyn won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. (he deserved the prize, unlike Gore and p_resident Obadman.)
17 posted on 04/01/2015 2:02:05 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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My co-worker in Seattle is a native Russian. She’s been here for over a decade.

Her political totalitarianism runs deep.

Russians seem to innately desire a maniacal boot crushing their head.


18 posted on 04/01/2015 2:02:32 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Support Principle: http://www.tedcruz.org)
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Ahh, Gen. Buck Turgidson’s line. My favorite movie.

(see tag line below)


19 posted on 04/01/2015 2:07:28 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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Poll: Nearly Half of Russians Believe Stalin’s Terror Was Justified

The other half were killed in "Uncle Joe's" purges.

20 posted on 04/01/2015 2:09:28 PM PDT by glennaro
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