Well, they might have a lot of things in common, but more recently the fact that they are the top three of most popular Russian poll.

I am actually a bit surprised that the murderer of millions Yossif Stalin didn’t come in first, considering the pro-Stalin and pro-Stalinism sentiments in modern Russia:

“The younger generation is fed with myths about Stalin. It knows nothing about the millions who died in Gulag camps but well knows he was a strong leader who defeated (Nazi) Germany,” human rights activist Lev Ponomaryov told Reuters.

He said a whiff of Stalinism was felt in Russia’s harsh tone with the West which has accused Moscow of backtracking on democratic reforms and keeping a tight lid on dissent.

“Again, foreign enemies are to blame for all internal problems, so you need to rule with an iron fist — it’s a purely Stalinist method.”

Stalin’s nostalgic supporters like to repeat that he defeated Nazi Germany, industrialised the Soviet Union and achieved total literacy across a backward peasant nation.

“Of course, there were also dark pages…and coming along with his genius there were also destructive moments, but in general he is remembered mostly as a great leader,” Viktor Ilyukhin, a leading member of the Communist party, told Reuters.

“We have been living under capitalism for 20 years now and so what? We are now a rank-and-file country, no longer a superpower. Our voice is weak both in economics and politics, and key decisions are sometimes taken without us.”

But I am more surprised at the fact that Pyotr Stolypin, Tsar Nicholas II Prime Minister and a fierce fighter against communist revolutionaries is, according to the poll, even a more popular figure in Russian history than Stalin. I’m sure Stolypin would have shot Stalin on spot if history had given him a chance.

But despite of the fact that Aleksandr Nevsky and Pyotr Stolypin topped Stalin, putting the dictator on third place still shows how today’s Russia is still the same Soviet Union it has been for the last 90 years. Criminals and murderers of innocent are hailed as heroes, and true heroes are being jailed and murdered.

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