He DID do some very bad things and also achieved some good things.
Because he was a leader of a very large country, his good and bad sides affected millions of people and cost many lives.

Why not look at him according to the same principle that the Chinese look at Mao?
They say that Mao did 80% good things and 20% bad things.

Perhaps in the case of Stalin the balance is not 80/20, but


  • How does it benefit Russia to drag his name in the mud? It's just sad with people who spit on their own country's history...
  • And how can anybody be stupid enough to glorify a person who had such little respect for human life as Stalin? Obviously he was nothing like his propaganda made out.


Perhaps it is possible to celebrate Stalin's positive achievements, and distance yourselves and learn from his mistakes.

He was a human being, neither God, nor the devil...