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. 

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.

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?

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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.

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

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

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

What could he have done?

Yes, but what should Bush have _done_ (not thought) differently?

Again, what should Bush have _done_?

You keep telling me what Bush should have _thought_, not what he should have _done_.

well then I do not believe I can answer your question, maybe you could educate me and give me an answer so I can learn. I love being taught things.!

I don't know the answer. I was asking you.

You said Bush should have acted differently. But what alternatives do you see?

Germans do what they are told. They were told to dislike Hitler, and so they do now.

Apart from that, nothing much has changed. A very large groups of Germans still believe that Jews (at least middle-eastern such) are the cause of poverty and war. And they also still believe that attacking Jewish civilians and murdering Jewish children is an acceptable form of "resistance".

They don't do it any more, because they were told not to; but many Germans, especially on the left, support the groups that still try.

The LPO was founded by the nephew of Hitler's friend Al-Husseini who called for all Jews to be exterminated. And the PLO was supported by left-wing groups from West-Germany and the East-German government.