Poll: Nearly Half of Russians Believe Stalin’s Terror Was Justified

Breitbart.com ^ | 04/01/2015 | Mary Chastain

[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.

[SeekAndFind]

One half of Russia deserve everything they get.

[Talisker]

Stockholm syndrome

[no-to-illegals]

liberals ...

[johniegrad]

Holy buckets!! They’re as stupid and immoral as Americans.

[C19fan]

Looks like Vlad Putin’s rehabilitation of Stalin is working.

[X-spurt]

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.

[ansel12]

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.

[MrB]

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.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

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

[stephenjohnbanker]

Nailed it.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

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.

[RetSignman]

Too bad there is no way to poll the the millions that he murdered.

Idiots

[henkster]

“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.”

[x]

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.

[TexasGator]

Most Cubans believe that Che’s murders were justified.

[BatGuano]

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.)

[Uncle Miltie]

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.

[BatGuano]

Ahh, Gen. Buck Turgidson’s line. My favorite movie.

(see tag line below)

[glennaro]

Poll: Nearly Half of Russians Believe Stalin’s Terror Was Justified

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