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Russia needs a dictator right now. And the longer this regime continues, the harsher the dictator will have to be. This country is overrun with crime, the mafia, unemployment. We've never had a situation like this here, where people are sleeping on the floor in city underpasses.Under Soviet rule, we put the first man in space, and had great advances in atomic energy and science. Now look at us: under capitalism, the whole country is falling apart.
If I could, I would turn back the clock to 20 years ago. But that's not to say there were no problems at all then -- the nomenclatura system was wrong; why should the party apparatchiks have lived so much better than the ordinary people? People should all have lived equally.
As far as Stalin is concerned, yes I do believe that there was some repression during his leadership; but that was the nature of the times. We were fighting a war to create in this country the dictatorship of the proletariat. And in any war, both the guilty and the innocent suffer, and there are some unfair deaths. I can't judge Stalin for what happened in those difficult times.
All of this is really very simple to understand. Even my 13-year-old son understands it: a few years ago, we could afford to buy him sodas and candy; now it's a big holiday for him to get a bottle of soda. So here's how he sees it: before, I had soda. Now, I don't. So that means that before, things were better.