Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev. Russian fate, the confession of the renegade (№ 271528)

A negative attitude to Stalin is because he has exposed the essence of Marxism-Leninism as an ideology and the real nature of communism. Stalin played its historical role. And now it can dump all those negative phenomena, those which are actually the essence of the inherent attributes of communism. He was made a scapegoat for the sins of history, and for the unforeseen consequences of the reality of communism. The Soviet leadership and his lackeys show their own nature, "exposing" Stalin, not the nature of Stalinism. They came with Stalin's unfair, meanly, craftily, as it corresponds to their own nature. True: a dead lion can even kick ass.