>From: Jacob Segal <jpsegal at rcn.com>
>
>Before WWII?
>
>Jacob
Yes. He was the Glorious Vozhd' Building Communism. I get goosebumbs standing outside Moscow's Stalin buildings because they are so breath-taking; can you imagine what they must have looked like to a peasant from the countryside? "We're doing it! We're building a new civilization!" Thewhole country cried when Stalin died, 10% from joy and the rest from grief.
Of course attitudes toward Stalin are very different in different parts of the fSU; he's not exactly well-loved in Western Ukraine or the Baltics, for obvious reasons. In Georgia, he is God.
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