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A record seven in 10 Russians now view Joseph Stalin positively, a poll has found.
An annual survey by the independent Levada Centre showed that 52 per cent thought the architect of the Great Purge had played a "more positive" role in the country's history, and 18 per cent an "entirely positive" role. This is better than Vladimir Putin's approval rating of 62 per cent, as measured by a state pollster this month.
Respondents were almost evenly split on whether the human casualties under the iron-fisted dictator were “justified” by the “grand goals and results” achieved.
A survey last autumn found that half of young people did not know about Stalin's repressions [15 million people killed in prisons and labor camps, a state commission estimated after the Soviet collapse].
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Gennady Zyuganov, long-time head of the communist faction in Russia's rubber-stamp parliament, said after the latest poll that Stalin was the “embodiment of the justice that the people increasingly need”.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/16/record-70-per-cent-russians-approve-stalin/
An annual survey by the independent Levada Centre showed that 52 per cent thought the architect of the Great Purge had played a "more positive" role in the country's history, and 18 per cent an "entirely positive" role. This is better than Vladimir Putin's approval rating of 62 per cent, as measured by a state pollster this month.
Respondents were almost evenly split on whether the human casualties under the iron-fisted dictator were “justified” by the “grand goals and results” achieved.
A survey last autumn found that half of young people did not know about Stalin's repressions [15 million people killed in prisons and labor camps, a state commission estimated after the Soviet collapse].
. . .
Gennady Zyuganov, long-time head of the communist faction in Russia's rubber-stamp parliament, said after the latest poll that Stalin was the “embodiment of the justice that the people increasingly need”.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/16/record-70-per-cent-russians-approve-stalin/