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Originally posted by Gutterboy
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It might be instructive to remember the survey taken on the 50th anniversary of Stalin's death on March 5th. Nearly 40% of Russians still believe that Stalins influence was more positive than negative, and even more startling, only 29% held fimly to the opposite view.
Not bad for a man who directly caused the deaths of around 20 million people, mostly his own countrymen.
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You are right about that but there is one differnce here, Russian economy fell to pieces when Stalin was gone....... and things went from bad to worse for them. Russian money wasn't worth shit anymore and people made 100$ a month to feed 3 to 5 mouths. I think that is the main reason people overthere now say "things where better under Stalin". Not to mention that the people now are another generation and most of them don't really know what it was to live under Stalin
Iraqi has got a better perspective in that case.