Stalin consistently hovered in the top three in the poll, in a sign that a recent government-led trend to reshape his reputation is yielding results Photo: AP From The Telegraph:
Josef Stalin was named among the greatest Russians ever to have lived in a nationwide TV poll on Sunday modelled on the BBC's Great Britons.
The former Soviet dictator fell just 5,500 votes short of being named Russia's greatest historical figure. The top honour went to medieval military hero Alexander Nevsky, a near mythical figure in Russia who is credited with stopping the advance of invading Teutonic knights in the 13th century.
Pyotr Stolypin, the last tsar's prime minister, who was assassinated in the midst of a massive reform programme aimed at calming a growing Leftist rebellion in the early 20th century, came in second.
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