Lemet kirjutas:Isegi kui Putin peaks eest kukkuma, ei muuda see Venemaa kui sellise mentaalsuses suurt midagi. Sest esiteks peaks see mass sellisel juhul omaenda ekslikust tunnistama(aga see on juba puht inimlikult selline problemaatiline teema) ja teiseks on pea võimatu aastasadade jooksul lihasreflekside tasemele kinnistunut muuta. Stalin tappis kümneid miljoneid ja kes on rahvaküsitluste andmetel Venemaal siiani "efektiivseim manager" ja rahva lemmik?
Stalini müütifitseerimine on üsna huvitav teema ja tegelikult see uskumine ei ole päris nii staatiline, kui meie meediat lugedes võiks arvata. Mulle meeldis see, ühe üsna haritud venelase, vaatenurk Stalini kiitmisele (Lääne lugejale suunatud blogis):
http://www.unz.com/akarlin/tribal-stalinism/
Ehk tegelikult ei ole Stalini õigustamisel suurt midagi pistmist ajalooga või sellesse sisulise uskumisega. Kui Venemaa ametlik liin pürgib gloobaalse integreerimise suunal vaadatakse talle oluliselt rohkem viltu, kui on valitseb sissepiiramise mentaliteet (Krimmi ja Ukraina järel näiteks) tekib õigustajad nagu seeni peale vihma.And thus a huge strand of the Russian “patriotic” opposition to the liberal neocon hegemony of the 1990s, which had decidedly triumphed by the end of Putin’s first term, had in the process also become infested with Stalinophilia – even though it is not really compatible with Russian patriotism, let alone Russian nationalism (which the Communists, including Stalin, ruthlessly persecuted). The tendency of Stalin’s popularity to wax and wane in sync with the state of Russia’s relations with the West – lower when they are good, and higher when they are bad – strongly suggests that the debate over Stalin in Russia has nothing to do with real history. Instead, it is merely one of several tribal identifiers in politics, much like denial of global warming is a tenet of the Red Tribe and blank slatism is a tenet of the Blue Tribe, both of which have everything to do with American-specific politics and nothing to do with science. In Russia’s case, this Stalinist identifier – like the broader patriotic Great Patriotic War ideology onto which it has affixed itself – gets deflated and boosted whenever Russia veers between globalist integrationism and siege mentality, respectively.
