He accused Nikita Khrushchev of Stalin’s “posthumous harassment”.

Stalin’s great-grandson Selim Bensaad appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a proposal to rehabilitate the “red” dictator, Russian mass media reported.

Bensaad claims that an “information war”, “depopulation”, and the creation of the image of a “bloody dictator” were launched against Stalin.

He accused Nikita Khrushchev of the “posthumous harassment” of Stalin, as well as the rehabilitation of the “Banderivites”.

Before that, in Russia it was proposed to return Stalin’s remains to the Mausoleum.

Rehabilitation of the USSR in Russia

In his aggressive speeches, Russian President Vladimir Putin regularly invokes the Soviet past, including the authority of Joseph Stalin, to justify his invasion of Ukraine.

In Russia itself, repressions in the USSR, directed against certain nations and population groups, are not considered crimes, and recently they are even admired.

Experts agree that the Kremlin is taking action to revive the USSR. For example, State Duma deputies collected signatures of Russian citizens and residents of the occupied territories for the return of Russia’s borders as of 1945-1991.

The SBU found boxes of Soviet passports at the positions of the occupiers in the Kyiv region, which the invaders intended to distribute to Ukrainians.

Also in Russia, it was proposed to return the Soviet flag instead of the national “tricolor”.

In their propaganda, the Kremlin sycophants focus mainly on the older generation, which is nostalgic for the past.

In April, Putin signed a decree on fines for equating the Nazi regime with Soviet totalitarianism.