smoltchanov is ofc correct but this is also an outcome based on MASSIVE china-style revisionism and make-believe. sovjet nostalgia is sooooo common and normal, it makes me mad.
well, what did you expect in a country where the communists and the church kind of made a deal to blame the failings of the SU on a bunch of unknown "foreign elements" who tried to kill the russian culture or something linke that.
Well, but Brezhnev-style nostalgia, not Stalin-style. There were huge amount of films, series, documentaries on TV about cruelty of Stalin regime during last 20 years. Putin, Medvedev, Eltsin, a lot of public figures criticised totalitarian USSR (1930-1950). But it doesn't help. In my opinion, the reason was connection in mass opinion between failed USSR-Russia authorities in 1985-1999 and antistalinism.
