[HomeDeLaPot]

Um. Interesting. I knew about Elbakyan's Sci-Hub work, but until now I never knew she believes Joseph Stalin is a god: https://sci-hub.se/why-stalin-is-god

>Hence even if nobody considered Stalin to be a God, he was a real God - in the truest sense of the word, as we can see from the high level of love people had towards him. Someone may disagree by saying: there was a censorship in the Soviet Union, and it was impossible to say anything against Stalin - therefore everyone loved him. However, we must admit: the censorship was done by the people - there must be someone who sends you to prison if you don't love Stalin...

>Hence Stalin was not just an ancient pagan god - but he was that God christians believe in. In a critical moment for the country and for the whole humanity he came down to Earth, wearing a cool mustache avatar, and restored the order: he revived economics and created the powerful science. He created a communist paradise for righteous people, while bad people were sent to GULAG. He won the war against the evil forces of Hitler, and even restored Israel, as he promised to do long time ago.

[jacquesm]

There are plenty of very weird viewpoints commonly promoted in Russia. But then again, the same goes for many other places on Earth, I don't think there are many populations that are 100% sane and rational in all of their beliefs.