[ETL]

"Putin said Stalin deserves statues in his honor"

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131219/185734707/Putin-Says-Stalin-No-Worse-Than-Cunning-Oliver-Cromwell.html
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"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...

"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'..."

"The more I see and read about Mr. Putin, in power since 1999, and his 'managed democracy,' the more apprehensive I become about the future of Russia and the safety of its neighbors.

If Putin believes that the dissolution of the Soviet Union into 15 independent states represents the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,' then it follows that Putin might well believe he should do something to repair the loss..."

http://web.archive.org/web/20090415000000*/http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html
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"The demise of the Soviet Union was the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century'," Putin said in 2005.

http://www.thetrumpet.com/article/11102.30640.0.0/asia/moscow-puts-the-soviet-squeeze-on-neighbor-nations
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[Cobra64]

So what’s your point?

[blueplum]

how’d Stalin get in a thread about an animation?

but anyway...for what it’s worth, from comments (and I agree with the poster who said that the only difference between Hitler and Stalin was who won - they were both equally evil):
( May 16, 2015):
To those not familiar with the situation, I have to say that there is virtually no campaign to rehabilitate Stalin in Russia; opinions of him vary dramatically, but there is no revival of his cult. Putin has publicly expressed his despise towards the Bolsheviks and branded them as traitors and the cause of enormous damage to his country. More than that, numerous monuments have been erected during his presidency, honouring anti-Soviet generals of the civil war (such as Alexander Kolchak and Sergei Markov), Russian emperors (such as Alexander I, Alexander II, Nicholas II) and churchmen (such as Patriarch Hermogenes), which is quite at odds with the Soviet ideology and has outraged the neo-Stalinist minority.
http://englishrussia.com/2015/05/06/stalin-monuments-appear-in-russian-cities/
same poster, May 17):
“Don’t get confused by the description. It’s far not a mass phenomenon on the territory of the former Soviet Union: the bust of Stalin shown on these photos was brought up by a small group of Communists and installed near the Communist party headquarters in the city of Lipetsk. The unveiling of a new monument caused controversy among the locals, and after receiving threats of vandalism against the sculpture, the Communists had to install a CCTV camera to ensure the safety of their precious bust. In 2011, they installed another bust of Stalin in Saint Petersburg, but it was pulled down after a few hours. Yet another bust was installed in the village of Kureika and shared the same fate: it was demolished by the orders of the local administration. There is, however, a small number of other busts and statues of Stalin scattered across Russia, but most of them are either in museums or in private hands, so it is extremely unlikely that you will ever find them during your stay in that country.”

[Ray76]

They still have missile parades.