The Russian Federation has sort of co-opted Stalin, in that he's held up as a kind of national hero in large parts of the country without any reference to or emphasis on communism.
Supposedly they tried to do the same to Lenin, but it turned out to be literally impossible to frame Lenin's words as anything but anti-capitalist
capital still has not coopted stalin, leading him to be an important banner, as the ultimate evil in the mind of the liberal
The Russian Federation has sort of co-opted Stalin, in that he's held up as a kind of national hero in large parts of the country without any reference to or emphasis on communism.
Supposedly they tried to do the same to Lenin, but it turned out to be literally impossible to frame Lenin's words as anything but anti-capitalist
Lenin rocks
Queue the picture of the chest tattoo with Stalin on one pec and Nikolai II on the other.