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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
If you look at the loyalty that ethinic Russian's have to Stalin it was pretty amazing stuff. You can argue that the non native soviets at the time absolutely hated Stalin and for example the Ukrainian's greeted the Nazi's as liberators.
Even today there are Russian's that pine for the return of centralized controls and Josef Stalin.
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We tend to forget that life in Russia before Stalin was little different to life during his rule, pograms, mass starvation, gulags etc.
To understand his rule you have to compare him to the Tzar, not current times.
I think this is equally true when we marvel at why leftists at the time from the west forgave Stalin his murders, they were equally aware that millions were dying under British rule in India, Henry Ford was gunning down strikers openly in the US etc.
Hard times.