I guess Putin wants to be remembered like Stalin.

[fightforfreedom]

He is going to kill a lot of his own people to get his way. He is going to take all their rights, freedoms away. He is going to imprison tens of thousands of Russians. He is right now trying to eliminate all forms of free press, information from reaching the Russian people. I don't know if that is possible in todays world.

Putin is fighting a war based on a belief from a time that no longer exists. He is trying to recreate history, a history he believes was a great history. He is fighting a war that he cannot win because it's based on a time that no longer exists. A time that was truly evil.

[Chainfire]

1. I think that he sets his sights higher than Stalin. He wants to be remembered as Putin the Great.

He is more likely to be remembered like Vlad the Impaler.

[revmclaren]

3. Right now he's looking more

like Vlad the Impotent.

[sarisataka]

2. Yes, he does

Stalin's image has been greatly rehabilitated in Russia and he is viewed as the leader who made the USSR into a superpower.

Putin would love to be seen as the new Stalin who reestablished the Russian Empire and brought them back to superpower status.

[former9thward]

4. Stalin is respected in Russia.

I spent a couple months in Russia and you can find Stalin statues on the back streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg and elsewhere. And his grave is still right behind Lenin's mausoleum on Red Square.

[NNadir]

5. Stalin died in bed. Putin may not.