Sure. I'm a Stalin admirer. He took a peasant nation and put it through the quickest, biggest crash industrialisation the world has ever seen. To the extent the USSR was then able to absorb the Nazi armour, across a 1,000 mile front, then beat it to a standstill, then roll it back to Berlin. It's highly likely Hitler would have got hold of nukes if Russia hadn't spent 20 million people on shortening the war, plus a long range delivery system. So yeah, all normal, thinking, freedom-loving people should admire Stalin, especially New Yorkers who would probably have been nuked.



Britain recognised all this during WW2, with Russians lauded as national heroes. It was only later they become the Big Red Bear.

Are you not a fan?