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Putin Admires Stalin

In a 2017 interview with filmmaker Oliver Stone, Putin compared Stalin to Oliver Cromwell and Napoleon Bonaparte. A March 2019 poll found that Russian support for Stalin had spiked a lot in less than 20 years during Putin's rule. 70% saw his historical role as positive, only 19% negative, up from 53% versus 33% in 2001. 46% thought the results of Stalin's rule justified the human cost of from 25% in 2008. And most troubling to me, a 2018 poll found that 47% of 18 to 24-year-old Russians had never heard of Stalin's acts of repression and just war crimes, atrocities, etc.

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