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Failing the Stalin Test

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Polls show that most young Russians hold ambivalent or even positive views of their country's worst dictator. Such attitudes stem not from defects in the Russian character, but from a massive failure in education. The West can help, and must do so fast.

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Submitted by tanu r. (Sep. 15, 2009) on September 19, 2009 - 1:13am.

please let me read entire essay

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