That is incredible.  The article even says that virtually every family was affected by his repression.  So you would think that all of the people being polled would know of their family history that someone they loved and cared about was murdered, tortured or imprisoned by this man. 

yup, shows you exactly how nuts the people of Russia are, how coyuld they even nominate him for such an honor is so far beyond my thinking it is just crazy to me.

for centuries russia has been the equivalent of a horribly dysfunctional family headed by an outrageously abusive parent.  incomprehensible as it may be for those of us who weren't born into or raised in such an environment, it's not unusual for victims to love the monsters they call mom or dad.

life in russia befoe stalin was no picnic. most of russia and its people were property of the tsars. under stalin, russia became a major world power--an accomplishment which eluded every tsar no matter how ambitious.  on top of all that, i believe we all tend to forget the worst of the past and embellish our remembrances of the best. 

 playing on that has been as effective for putin as it was reagan.

LOL....ok....

Anyways, this shows how backward the world really is.  But then again, the liberals keep telling me I need to care about what they think.

I know many Russian Jews who for some reason escaped the environment.

Why exactly would it be difficult for a non-Jewish Russian to see through this?

T

i've no idea why you feel that question relevant but lemme reply to it with a couple questions of my own.

how many russian jews remain?  what prevented  them from leaving after the ussr imploded?  do they consider themselves essentially russian or essentially jews?

are non-jewish russians (nearsighted or not) eligible for adoption by the state of israel?

I thought it was relevant because you argued that there is something in Russian society that forces them to accept totalitarian rulers as heroes.

I figured since that is not true at least for Russian Jews, it's just a matter of decision, not force.

There remain anywhere between a few hundred thousand and up to three million. Nobody knows. Some have left for Israel, some have left for Germany (which also grants citizenship to Jews), some have stayed.

Most of them consider themselves Jewish rather than Russian. In the Soviet Union people were organised according to nationality. You could be Russian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Jewish, or one of the other nationalities. (You could be more than one, I suppose.)

(Why would they consider themselves Russian?)

Each of the nationalities had their own territory, a member republic of the SU, one of the republics within Russia, or a territory or province. You didn't have to live in the territory assigned to you nationality. The Jewish territory was/is in eastern Siberia, bordering China or Mongolia. (Very few Jews live there. The official language is Yiddish.)

No.

OMG!!~! it's you!!! it's sooooooooooooooooo good to see your name again, what a great gift for Hanukkah-X-mas, new years

Yeh that happens to me too dog, they insist I must be converted to their cause or I will remain some kind of oddball.

I believe all that waiting in breadline for stale bread over the years caused brain damage.

From what I have heard (and I was sitting in the first row among the audience), Russian Jews were usually last in line.

Not unusual for Jews to be shit on, no matter where they are, which is one reason I stay so heavily armed, some of my friends think I am paranoid, I say I am prepared for what ever happens, I believe anti-semitism is on the rise in America. I guarantee if they ever come for this Jew there will be a large body count before I am taken or killed.

People tend to be cooperative when you put a gun to their heads.

Yup the move towards "democracy" has been killed by Putin, but what else would you expect by someone that was a leader of the old KGB? Once again Bush failed to recognize a real time threat to America. Bushes Judgment of Putin was so far off base that not only was he tricked by Putin, but he was shown to be a fool internationally.

What could he have done?