Joseph Stalin, the General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party and the Premier of USSR expired on 5th March 1953. He made USSR a military and economic force and had a prominent role in the defeat of Hitler and end to Fascism in the II World War ( 1941-45).
He was depicted as dictator and after his death, the next Secretary of the Party, Nikita Krushchew, attacked him on his policies and attacks on his detractors.
Whatever be his dictactorial actions, nobody can decimate his leadership in making the USSR a great force in military, science and also developmenmt.
USSR stands collapsed more than 20 years back and the bulwark against imperialism weakened. But the same people who has thrown out communism in Russia, seems to be defending the achievements that communism has brought to the country.