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Dirty Little Secrets
Those Who Did Stalin's Dirty Work
President Dmitry Medvedev publically criticized those who have been trying to rehabilitate the reputation of Soviet era dictator and mass-murderer, Josef Stalin. Medvedev pointed out what Stalin's immediate successors strongly criticized Stalin as a ruthless tyrant who killed tens of millions of Russians to stay in power. But Medvedev's predecessor (and current prime minister), Vladimir Putin, had ordered textbooks revised to show Stalin as a strong, but flawed, leader who was essential to national survival during hard times. The state controlled press has also pushed this angle, and run into a lot of opposition from Stalin's many victims and their descendents. But the many people who carried out Stalin's orders, and their descendents, favor this praise for Stalin, and downplaying the role of those who did Stalin's dirty work.
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