Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin - Alive?

Just mentioning the name of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in eastern Europe generally evokes strong reactions even to this day, 55 years after his death. He was an empire builder to some, but to most a brutal, ruthless dictator. In his native country of Georgia, Stalin remains an enigmatic figure for some, one that still arouses a strange sort of respect.

VOA's Sonja Pace visited Stalin's hometown of Gori and the Stalin museum, a spooky place that is still lovingly tended.

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[TravisDrago]

Glorious Comrade Stalin

[SashaVedernikov]

Stalin was a hero !

[blackmage3000]

little billy we couldn't afford a clown for your birthday, so we got stalin instead

[wwfww]

@SashaVedernikov hahaha

[wingsofliberty437]

I personally prefer the Rockefeller look, it's STYLIN'!

[WolfytheWolf5667]

@AnonymousEmperor

Both sides are to blame equally.

The cold war, caused atleast 57-58 million deaths.

[AnonymousEmperor]

@boringcabbage I do not understand what exactly you are trying to make out by comparing the millions who died in Stalin's Russia with the thousands of deaths caused by the United , if you are trying to compare which is worse, the death toll in Russia was of a much greater scale, though that does not make either instances justified.

[AnonymousEmperor]

No-one was safe from the murderous dictator named Joseph Stalin, not even his own wife.

[AnonymousEmperor]

@boringcabbage Although Stalin had now industrialized Russia, millions had died, people who opposed collectivization were branded kulaks (the richer more well off peasants) and were either publicly executed or sent to the work camps. Yes you can argue that industrialization was a good thing in Russia (which it was) but, was the price worth it, the millions of people who died of famine and the millions executed and imprisoned, he ended up creating a nation built upon fear and death.

[AnonymousEmperor]

@boringcabbage I don't know about the school part but he did industrialize Russia, he built Russia up into a industrial superpower, but he did it with the deaths of millions, he took grain from the peasants under collectivization, all the grain including the grain which would be used for the next years harvest, meaning no food for the peasants, there was widespread famine amongst Russia's peasantry, this grain he collected was sold abroad in order to gain machinery for industrialization.

[SturmFuhrerx]

@9Cheff1 Before 1989, Russian factories couldn't produce anything other than military or building supplies, which were always used to build new factories to produce more supplies for more factories. Any attempt to produce consumable goods would result in inavoidable epic fail, like the Lada, soviet blenders or anything that take 10 years to arrive and 5min of use to burst in flames.

Stalin didn't made Russia "industrial". And the numbers are 65 not 6 millions, acording to Anatoly Golytsin.