Great Heros! Geh!

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What the hell was wrong with Lenin? ... A great thinker and leader.

He put himself in power with a putsch, executed not only the tzar but also all his children and installed a bureaucratic dictatorship that ended up killing dozens of millions. I consider these to be bad things.

Also Stalin did some of the worst crimes commited by a leader, however he did save the Russian nation from destruction at the hands of the Nazi's. Churchill did some pretty horrendus acts, but we voted him #1 over here, for precisely the same reason. To think everyone who is voting for Stalin are sympathetic to his crimes, is ridiculous, maybe they just understand that he was a great Russian - and I don't think anyone can get away from that. Not to mention as the article states, no one involved in the show are hiding the crimes he commited.

Churchill might have not been the most enlightened figure domestically, but comparing him to Stalin is a "bit" much.

He contributed absolutely nothing personally to the nazis' defeat. His purges of the army's officers, his slow reaction to the German invasion and his policies in general made the Soviet Union a very easy target initially and if he had been any more incompetent, it surely would have collapsed.