Anyone who thinks #
Putin is anything like #
Stalin or that Stalin would have agreed with him on #
Ukraine:
Stalin fought tooth and nail for Ukraine to be viewed globally as an independent nation and is the reason it's in the UN as such to this day.Putin idealizes the childish view of Stalin as a strongman. That's all. It's a view that Stalin himself fought against, and was championed mainly by the people like Khrushchev who would later use that strongman image to decry him as a brute in order to try to build their own cult. Putin cares about business, he cares about dividing people, he cares about imperial conquest; while Stalin cared about nation-building, unity, and national independence. (People will point to the Winter War, but need to recall #
Russia and Karelia's history before Stalin;
Stalin was also the one who announced Finland's independence from the USSR in 1917).
Anyone familiar with Soviet history must know that, beyond a shadow of a doubt, Stalin would have had Putin purged, and the only reason Putin wants to be connected to the image of Stalin is because, in contrast to how we in the west view him, Stalin has always enjoyed immense popularity throughout former Soviet nations. It's like modern American presidents comparing themselves to Lincoln, even though they probably would have in reality sided with the Confederates. It's pure propaganda.
