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MOSCOW, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Russia's communists still believe Josef Stalin was a better ruler than President Vladimir Putin, the Moscow Times reported Wednesday.
Hundreds of Communist Party supporters commemorated what would have been the Soviet leader's 125th birthday Tuesday by laying wreaths and red carnations at his tomb on Red Square.
"All of the people lived well under Stalin, while Putin represents 10 percent of the people, who themselves live well at the expense of others," said Oleg Kulikov, a member of the Communist Party's central committee.
Stalin expanded Soviet influence abroad, but Russia's influence has suffered under Putin, most recently in election scandals in Ukraine and the separatist Georgian region of Abkhazia, Kulikov told the Times. The only thing the two leaders have in common is an inclination to limit civil freedoms, he said.
Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov led a delegation of high-ranking party members to lay wreaths at Stalin's tomb on Red Square. "Stalin was one of the most outstanding personalities of the 20th century," Zyuganov said after the wreath-laying ceremony. "Stalin was an outstanding statesman."
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