I completely agree with you.
To argue that Stalin was, on balance, somehow 'good' for Russia is both ridiculous and an absurdity that strikes me as being surrealistic in tone. When I read someone's words in defense of 'ol uncle Iosef, I sometimes think that the person must consciously be playing a 'devil's advocate' and cannot really believe the words he himself has written.
Stalin was responsible for more evil than anyone in history. He was directly responsible for the initial nazi successes after Germany invaded Russia. He had purged the General staff and upper and middle officer ranks before the war and thereby insured that the Russian Army would have few competent leaders. In the days after the invasion, Stalin was a coward, frozen to inactivity by his own fear. Thousands were executed in Russia for lesser acts of cowardace. How many lives were ended because of him? How many families destroyed? How many glorious possibilities were raped and tortured? How much does Mother Russia still suffer because of this devil, this Georgian who must have hated Russia and her people, this hollow man who would have murdered millions more had he lived another five years.
I could go on and on about this 'glorious leader of Russia', but I am losing my coherence.
Lovers of Stalin, throw your invective, say that I know nothing of history. Use your ad-hominem attacks against me and raise the portrait of your beloved midget with the pockmarked face and crippled arm high.
I know the bastard is dead and if there is no real hell then God should create one for him, this 'Generalissimo', this 'HERO OF RUSSIA' who died in his own stinking dung and piss. He died too well.