On this day 70 years ago, Stalin died

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  1. [Obligatory classic photo.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/NJJZN7WAW4I6ZNO7D65GDJTMOU.jpg&w=1440)

    Stalin’s spirit, however, is feeling better than ever before:

    > 2008: [Stalin voted third most popular Russian](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-stalin-idUSTRE4BR17620081229)
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    > 2015: [Stalin Gaining Popularity in Putin’s Russia](https://www.voanews.com/a/stalin-putin-russia/3112458.html)
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    > 2017: [For Russians, Stalin is the ‘most outstanding’ figure in world history, followed by Putin](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/06/26/for-russians-stalin-is-the-most-outstanding-figure-in-world-history-putin-is-next/)
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    > 2019: [Stalin More Popular Than Putin in Russia These Days](https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2019-05-09/stalin-is-more-popular-than-ever-in-russia-survey-shows)
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    > [Russia’s History Wars: Why Is Stalin’s Popularity On the Rise?](https://carnegiemoscow.org/commentary/84991)
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    > [Joseph Stalin: Why so many Russians like the Soviet dictator](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47975704)
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    > [Stalin’s Appeal Surging Among Russians, Opinion Poll Suggests](https://www.rferl.org/a/stalin-s-appeal-surging-among-russians-opinion-poll-suggests/29884485.html)

    Russians en masse just love this stuff. Putin is only a symptom.

  2. “putin will die on day of National Ukrainian holiday! What is the date of this holiday? They will set the date for this holiday once he will die…”

  3. Still find it somewhat hilarious how he died:

    Stalin then went to bed, but only after saying the guards could go off duty and that they weren’t to wake him.
    stalin would usually alert his guards before 10:00 a.m. and ask for tea, but no communication came. the guards grew worried, but were forbidden from waking Stalin and could only wait: there was no one in the dacha who could counter stalin’s orders. a light came on in the room around 18:30, but still no call. the guards were terrified of upsetting him, for fear they too would be sent to the gulags and possible death. eventually, plucking up the courage to go in and using the arrived post as an excuse, a guard entered the room at 22:00 and found stalin lying on the floor in a pool of urine. he was helpless and unable to speak, and his broken watch showed he had fallen at 18:30.

  4. My grandma, born in 1950, told me that she sort of remembered the day Stalin died and that her family reacted positively to that. They were sent to the Far East as “kulaks” or whatever, and despite that, her father fought in the war and even had a medal.

    A few years ago I talked to a Putin supporter online. “Your ancestors *deserved* it!” Mhm.

  5. The devil incarnate. The only reason he is overshadowed by Hitler is that his methods were less blatant and more cunning, and that he was on the winning side.

  6. Good riddance, regardless of how bad some people seem to hate Russians, I believe that no one Deserves such an evil man commanding them the Russian’s and other peoples of the soviet union were and are much better off not having anyone like this as a leader.

  7. It’s one of my father’s earliest memories, because his grandfather, the strict man that he was, allowed his grandkids to jump on the beds to celebrate. Apparently they had really good springs, so it was like jumping on a trampoline. My father was 4 at the time.

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