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title: "Bad news, everyone! "Respect among Russians for Josef Stalin has…"
date: 2019-04-23
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# Bad news, everyone! "Respect among Russians for Josef Stalin has…

*April 23, 2019 · Facebook*

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[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-16/russian-support-for-soviet-tyrant-stalin-hits-record-poll-shows?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=business&cmpid=socialflow-facebook-business](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-16/russian-support-for-soviet-tyrant-stalin-hits-record-poll-shows?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=business&cmpid=socialflow-facebook-business){target="_blank"}
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Bad news, everyone!\
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\"Respect among Russians for Josef Stalin has surged to the highest level of President Vladimir Putin's era, with 70 percent saying his rule had been good for the country, according to a poll tracking attitudes toward the Soviet dictator.\
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A record 51 percent viewed Stalin positively in March, up from 40 percent a year earlier, the survey published Tuesday by the Moscow-based Levada Center showed. The proportion regarding him with admiration, respect or sympathy was the highest since it began the survey in April 2001, Levada said on its website.\
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Russians were more willing to defend the mass killings and political persecutions that accompanied Stalin's 31-year rule until his death in 1953, according to the survey. Some 46 percent agreed that repressions were "definitely" or "in some way" justified by the results achieved under Stalin, up from 36 percent in 2017 and the highest level since the question was first posed in 2008. \"\
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[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-16/russian-support-for-soviet-tyrant-stalin-hits-record-poll-shows](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-16/russian-support-for-soviet-tyrant-stalin-hits-record-poll-shows){target="_blank"}
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