RE: [OPE] Stalin voted third most popular Russian

From: GERALD LEVY <gerald_a_levy@msn.com>
Date: Thu Jan 22 2009 - 15:57:28 EST

> People's admiration of Stalin is not so much about his politics and so on but because he defeated German
> facism and by this he made Soviet Union one of the great powers of the world.Hi Dogan:
 
Well, I think it would be more historically accurate to say that the eventual military success of the
Red Army over the Wehrmacht was not because of Stalin but in spite of him.
 
In solidarity, Jerry
 

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