# Stalin is viewed postively, why?

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**Created:** [March 6, 2003, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stalin-is-viewed-postively-why/159460 "2003-03-06T10:56:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2003, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stalin-is-viewed-postively-why/159460/41 "2003-03-09T20:59:21Z")

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One of my professors, a man from Russia, explained it as this:

People in the USSR were terrified of Stalin. But so was everyone else in the world. And with a threat of nuclear war, the fact that people outside were afraid of Stalin was sort of a security blanket, or whatever.

It’s not exactly logical, but it’s just one of those things, I suppose.

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