I think this is a more or less typical Russian opinion about Gprbachev:
http://left.ru/inter/january/malenko.html
>
>-"History judges leaders by a unanimous parameter, the state of a country
>before
>-and after this leader. Stalin, despite his methods I ever criticized,
>received
>-the country in a very poor situation and transformed it in a superpower,
>while
>-Gorbatchev did the opposite"...thus implying he thinks Stalin was better.
>-Btw: Medveved´s calculation of 40,000,000 of Stalin victims seems to count
>also
>-non fatal repression victims. Given the short sentences of the majority of
>people
>-who went to the Gulag, this could be a somewhat accurate number.
>
>
That makes much more sense, especially if Medvedev was including victims of
deportations.
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