Russian youth: Stalin good, migrants must go: poll 40 minutes ago
From a correspondent: The poll mentioned in the following article was carried out by the Yuri Levada Centre, named for a scholar who was close to the “glasnost” politics of former Soviet leader Gorbachev. Such think-tanks are seen as aligned with Western neocons and Russian oligarchs, who seek to undermine the firm rule of Vladimir Putin and return Russia to the days of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=444, when the collective gains of the Soviet Union were looted by organized criminals, most of whom happened to be Jewish.
The mention of Stalin appears as a cheap shot aimed at increasing tensions with the West, whose controlled media seek to portray the democratically-elected Putin as a new Stalin. Russia has never had a “democracy” — the first genuinely democratic elections were the ones that gave Putin his mandate. Instead, Russia has looked for the strong hand of a “Czar” figure, and to many Stalin nostalgically fits that bill, especially compared to the chaotic misrule of Yeltsin. And despite Stalin’s immeasurable crimes, many desperate Russians today remember him as a man who took over a poverty-stricken nation and left it an atomic-armed world power. The poll’s twinning of Stalin’s spectre with “racism” is a clear indication that this poll is a hit piece aimed at Putin, a man who has been directly threatened by at least one oligarch with a http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1003.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s youths admire Soviet dictator Josef Stalin — who presided over the deaths of millions of people — and want to kick immigrants out of Russia, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
The poll, carried out by the Yuri Levada Centre, was presented by two U.S. academics who called it “The Putin Generation: the political views of Russia’s youth.”When asked if Stalin was a wise leader, half of the 1,802 respondents, aged from 16 to 19, agreed he was.
“Fifty-four percent agreed that Stalin did more good than bad,” said Theodore Gerber, a sociologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Forty-six percent disagreed with the statement that Stalin was a cruel tyrant…We think it would probably be more appropriate if there was more condemnation of the Stalin era.”
…Only a fifth viewed Iran as a potential rival or enemy.
Most young people also wanted immigrants kicked out of Russia: 62 percent said they agreed with the statement that the Russian government should evict most immigrants.
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