Quote from: bryant.coleman on April 09, 2015, 12:47:26 PM

Quote from: Nemo1024 on April 09, 2015, 11:56:42 AM

Count me out, as well as a millions of former Soviet citizens, whose families were touched by repressions.

Btw, Stalin aside, there is a discomforting parallel between Hitler professing Germans as the superior race and Obama professing America as an exceptional nation...

I was sort of generalizing. There were a few opinion polls conducted in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine (before the civil war), Kazakhstan.etc, which showed good support for Stalin.

Yes, I know. The problem is that people are confusing Stalin-the-icon (a symbol of relative prosperity/stability, low corruption and criminality, and of respect on international arena) and Stalin-the-person (a ruthless authoritarian, who infamously proclaimed that deaths of a million people is just a static). In those polls it is the former concept that is winning, especially when present Russia's international status and social turmoil are set as a contrast.