60 years after Stalin"Forty-eight percent of Russians think Stalin played a positive role, while only 22 percent rated him 'harshly negatively,' according to a 2012 poll by the independent Levada Center. In polls conducted in 1988, that figure was 60 percent. At the same time, the percentage of people who admit that they 'know nothing' about the ( Read more... )

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." - Stalin But Melvin! He didn't actually say that! Hush:
"I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how."I've posted about this topic in replies to ( Read more... )