--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My bet is that Stalin's popularity as a historical > figure is going to slowly > increase and probably stay at between 50% and 65% of > the former Soviet Union > and Russia forever. This is probably true. His retroactive public-approval ratings are far, far higher than Lenin's or anybody else's in fact until you get back to Peter the Great, except for Putin, whose January approval ratings were at an all-time post-Kursk low of 65%. Nu, zayats, pogodi! __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/
