March 5 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of one of the greatest mass-murderers of all time – the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.Probably as many Soviet people were killed during his reign of terror as perished during World War II at the hands of the Nazis. Yet many today still fail to grasp the magnitude of his crimes against humanity.Many Russians in fact look back nostalgically to the Stalin era. In March this year, 53 per cent of Russians polled by the All-Russia Centre for the St…
