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SHOCK POLL: HALF OF RUSSIA BELIEVES STALIN’S TERROR WAS JUSTIFIED……..

This is what happens when there is no real counterweight for tyranny.

And if mainstream Muslims’ favorable views of intolerant and violent Islam wasn’t enough for you, now a favorable view Stalin’s marxist genocide machine is making a comeback in Russia.

POLL: NEARLY HALF OF RUSSIANS BELIEVE STALIN’S TERROR WAS JUSTIFIED

According to a poll by the Levada Center, the enormous economic progress under Soviet Union dictator Josef Stalin justified all the “sacrifices” made by Russians, including the genocide of his own people.

The independent center polled the same question two years ago, but only 25 percent agreed. The latest poll is up to 45 percent.

“If the prevailing attitude toward [Stalin] was negative at the start of the millennium, now a large proportion of respondents (39 percent) now evaluate him positively,” announced the Levada Center.

They also asked people if they thought Stalin’s death ended “mass repression and terror.” Only 46 percent said yes. While that number appears high, 56 percent answered yes only two years ago.

“[Stalin is being rehabilitated because] the current Russian authorities and [President Vladimir] Putin in particular seek the legitimization and justification of their actions by resorting to the past. It gives them a certain endorsement,” explained Alexei Levinson, the head of the Levada Center’s social and cultural studies department. “There are two consequences of that: On the one hand, the state might triumph in the further consolidation of its power. On the other hand, we are engaging in a conflict with the rest of the world and our regime will not last long under such pressure.”

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