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Why did the leaders of Russia want the people of their country to think Stalin was such a wonderful smart man!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Well, he was the boss, the great leader!. People will be much more likely to follow a leader they see as wonderful and smart than one they see as demonic and stupid!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It is not only Stalin in Russia but each and every country on this earth, The Political leaders think that, they are the best for their country to Lead!?!. If you see Russias, past & present, the trend has not changed!? The time of Gorbatschov!? his group find, he was the best and made the name for releasing the Ex-GERMANY`S "DDR", naturally for which he must have encashed from the back doors!? & Germany`s top Politicians Buttered him with Jam in addition!? where as his own people now hate him, as traitor!? or his follower Boris, or Putin (The Secret Police Services Boss) erradicated their enimies without the knowledge of others!? such are the systems in Politic the POWER OF MIGHT & not Democracy!. & Stalin was not a politician but a Cobbler!? so one could not await the real sense of Diplomacy from him!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

They wanted the Russians to continue in the belief that the Soviet Union was indeed more powerful than the USA as this belief would make the people accept and approve of the military build up that the SU were having!. Basically, they just want to project this image of the USSR being all great and mighty and Stalin was just one of the central figures involved!.

Anyway something which is totally unrelated to your qns, I don't think Stalin is as that bad of a guy that most people would like to think he is!. He did all those things (sovietisation in east europe) due mostly to historical reasons and also to give Russia better security!. Russia has been invaded three times in the past through Poland and so it's natural to want to have friendly neighbours to ensure the protection of Russia!.

So yea perhaps Stalin is not really that great od a wonderful or smart man, but he sure was concerned and worried for his country!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

From 1934 to 1953 Stalin (Iosif Vissarianovich Djugashvili) was the leader of Russia (and indeed the rest of the Soviet Union)!. During those years, he developed adulation of himself to the extent that if communism had allowed the concept of a deity he would have been deified!. (Solzhenitsyn tells of a deaf-and-dumb workman who hung his cap on a bust of Stalin: anti-Soviet agitation - ten years in prison!.) Stalin wanted the world in general and the USSR in particular to believe he was a genius, and the penalties for not following this line were severe!.

After Stalin died in 1953, his successors began a programme of 'de-Stalinisation'!. They were painfully aware that it would not look good to tell the world that the 'great genius' who had ruled the USSR for the past two decades had been a vicious, devious psychopath who delighted in slavery, suffering and and mass-murder and was largely incompetent to boot, so they adopted the line that he was the great hero who had won World War 2, but had been less than perfect in that he put himself above the party, which was a sad if understandable failing!. The Stalin era was referred to as 'the period of the cult of personality', and the cities Stalin had named after himself were quietly renamed (you could not visit Stalingrad after 1961 - it was Volgograd; Stalino similarly became Donetsk)!.

This approach - that Stalin had been bad for the party but on the whole good for the country - was continued by subsequent Soviet leaders, who beat the big drum about success in World War 2 because they wished to keep up enthusiasm for their 'inevitable' World War 3 against the 'capitalist' powers!. In addition, there was a significant body of opinion among ordinary USSR citizens that 'you knew where you stood with Stalin' and 'Stalin was better at rooting out corruption' and 'things worked better under Stalin', none of which were true, but all of which militated against any further downgrading of Stalin's already tarnished image!. After all, if Stalin was bad, then the USSR under him had been bad, too, and it would be difficult to maintain that it had measurably improved since without admitting previous glaring deficiencies!.

So initially it was Stalin who glorified himself; subsequently his successors felt they could not discredit him as he deserved without making the entire Soviet Union look embarrassingly bad!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Stalin won the Patriotic War (WW2)!. I think, not acknolwedging that, would be akin to blasphemy or being a traitor!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Because Stalin (in fact) started a cold war!.Now we have that our country wants a 2nd Cold War,wants to forget about democracy!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com