Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.
All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.
I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych.
Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.
Russia is very big and very varied. People are different in different regions.
The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.
Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be.