Russia’s youth admire the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin – who presided over the deaths of millions of people – and want to kick immigrants out of Russia, according to a poll released yesterday.
When asked if Stalin was a wise leader, half of the 1,802 respondents, aged from 16 to 19, agreed he was.
“Fifty-four per cent agreed that Stalin did more good than bad,” said Theodore Gerber, a sociologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who presented the poll.