Posted on 06/26/2018 8:14:14 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The Kremlin has in recent years advanced a narrative that Russia must not be ashamed of its Soviet past. President Vladimir Putin has used his nearly two decades in power to talk up achievements during World War II as a rallying cry to unite the nation.
In recent years, there have been efforts in Russia to transform Stalin’s image from that of a bloody dictator to a ‘great personality.’
A poll by the independent Levada Center found only 9 percent of Russians blamed Stalin’s leadership for the war casualties, according to a survey published Wednesday.
That is a a rapidly dwindling fourfold decline from the 36 percent of respondents who believed in 1991.
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