Russian leader looks to Stalin's legacy - 30 Nov 07

Putin's critics have likened him to a modern-day Stalin, ruling with an iron fist and silencing the opposition, but yet many Russians appear to find these qualities appealing.

Al Jazeera's Laurence Lee reports from Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad.

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[Shmacktop]

OMG are all western journalists that stupid? What does Stalingrad and the Eternal flame have to do with politics? Are they trying to insult war veterans?

[chtovimenitebemojem]

its so funny to read this western idiots in comments who think that putin is a communist))

[qwertycxzz]

look Sabaton Stalingrad

[PrimeConsciousness]

There's a light in the Kremlin! Comrade Putin is hard at work through the night...

[chickenwretch]

Long live the Mother *&%#er land!

[CharlesVariations]

@HavidDagstrom

"it's fit for a russian ultra-nationalist."

;)

[HavidDagstrom]

@CharlesVariations Lol are you kidding? That's the most rediculous thing i've heard today, it's fit for a russian ultra-nationalist.

[lukebccb]

3) forcing military practices that resulted in millions of Red Army soldiers being killed and/or captured that should not have been killed or captured 4) resulting in huge areas of the Soviet Union to be captured by the genocide-intending nazis that resulted in millions and millions and millions of Russian/Ukrainian/Belorussian peoples to be purposely slaughtered and murdered by the nazi vermin.

27 million Soviet peoples died when that number should have been MUCH lower but for Stalin.

[lukebccb]

Stalin's police state during the war is PROBABLY what saved Russia from the nazi genocide but even leaving aside the millions of deaths resulting from the 1930s industrialization, Stalin is responsible for 15-20 million needless Russian/Ukrainian/Belorussian/­etc. deaths due to: 1) the murder of thousands of Red Army officers in 1937-38, 2) ignoring OBVIOUS signs of imminent nazi invasion leaving Red Army soldiers completely vulnerable to the nazi onslaught,

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[CharlesVariations]

I'm NOT speaking as a communist.

Stalin was Russia's greatest leader, regardless if he was communist or not. Putin is the second best since Stalin, and Medvedev basically is Putin, which makes him great too.