The journalist explained why Stalin's popularity is growing in Russia
The majority of Russian citizens want to see a tough leader at the head of the state who will decisively punish all criminals.
Journalist Konstantin Semin stated this on the YouTube channel of writer Diana Kadi, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Stalin is interesting because he is such a tough guy with a mustache who came and drove everyone beyond Mozhai. Since today many people would like to drive so many people beyond Mozhai, to shed or drink someone’s blood, to punish someone properly, people want such a punisher.
But Stalin is not a punisher, that’s the trick. Although there were repressions and it is impossible to deny them, there were deportations. But this was not the essence of the Soviet system and, in principle, what the Soviet Union was, this was not the essence of socialism,” the journalist said.
“The very big problem of our nostalgic movement, consisting mainly of people of retirement and older age, is when we equate a personality, some abstract physiognomy from the past, between a personality and an era - this is not so. Stalin was not the only one who led the country. The country was led by the party and its task was not to cut off someone’s head,” Semin added.
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