About half (51 percent) of the
respondents agreed that Stalin was a wise
leader, whereas 39 percent disagreed.
Over half (56 percent) said they thought
he did more good than bad; only 33 per-
cent disagreed. And 42 percent of those
surveyed agreed that people today exag-
gerate Stalin’s role in the repressions,
whereas about the same number (37 per-
cent) disagreed. Opinions were about
equally divided over whether Stalin was
a cruel tyrant (43 percent agreed and
47 percent disagreed)—a strange finding
given that 70 percent of the respondents
agreed that Stalin imprisoned, tortured,
and killed millions of innocent people
(only 16 percent disagreed with this claim).
Only 28 percent felt that Stalin did not
deserve credit for the Soviet victory in
World War II.
(译文:51%的受访者赞同斯大林是个英明的领导人,39% 的受访者反对。56%的受访者赞同斯大林做的好事比坏事多,只有33%的受访者反对。42%的受访者赞同现在的人夸大了斯大林在镇压中扮演的角色,大约39%的受访者反对。43%的受访者赞同斯大林是残酷的暴君,47%的受访者反对。一个奇怪的结果是:70%的受访者赞同斯大林监禁、拷打、杀害成百万无辜的民众,只有16%的人不赞同。只有28%的受访者感到苏联赢得“二战”胜利的荣誉相当部分不应归于斯大林。 )