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http://www.youtube.c...h?v=yn7Yh78h4dg

Here's a little documentary i found, showing that contrary to what some may say, the Soviets aren't remembered as evil and Stalin isn't forgotten or demonized. Putin has always been quiet on the subject i think, but although he plays up the religious angle a lot, i honestly wonder what his opinion of the USSR was, i doubt he could've gotten very far with an anti-Soviet attitude.

[Violet Oboe]

Putin has been very vocal about the Soviet past albeit in a strange way:

Only some months after being elected as President of the Russian Federation in 2000 he reintroduced the old Soviet national anthem (the heroic hymn composed by Alexandrov back in '43 under Stalin!) as the official anthem of the ?new? Russia. Of course the verses of the hymn were adapted to the new times but nevertheless this kind of highly symbolic ?rehabilitation? of a highly respected icon of the Soviet system shows instructively how Putin is really feeling ?deep inside? about the nation's past.

[HaZh]

Yeah Russia remembers. Russia remembers. And then the documentary shows interviews with people who just want to forget about it. I think the term you're looking for is "deeply divided." The narrator herself said so. Believe it or not, there are even Nazi groups in Russia, supported by state officials. Want me to post a documentary about that and conclude Russians are Nazis?