With its “unerring intuition,” the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has declared Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin “a mistake,” thus putting itself in line with Vladimir Putin’s current thinking and opening the way for the Kremlin leader to be even more repressive at home and aggressive abroad, Andrey Arkhangelsky says.   

The Russian writer says that the KPRF’s action reflects the evolution of Putin’s thinking. Earlier, the Kremlin leader like his post-Stalin Soviet predecessors said he wanted to take the best from all eras of the Russian past; but now, he has narrowed the past from which he will select to that of Stalin and others like him (

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