The Times has a small blurb...

...today about a recent celebration in Russia. It says:

The Communist Party celebrated the 130th birthday of Joseph Stalin on Monday with an appeal for people not to bring up the more unseemly aspects of his record. Stalin is a polarizing figure in Russia, still popular for winning World War II and industrializing the Soviet Union while reviled for the purges that killed or displaced millions of people. On Monday, the Communists sought to focus on the achievements, lining up in Red Square to lay flowers on his grave, above. “We would like very much on this day for the discussion about any mistakes of the Stalin era to stop, so that people can reflect on the personality of Stalin as a creator, thinker and patriot,” said Ivan Melnikov, a senior party official.

"The more unseemly aspects of his record?" You mean the 20 million or so people that Stalin is thought to be responsible for murdering? "Unseemly aspects" sounds like he tended to conduct meetings of the Politburo while belching and wearing a wife beater. I think it was just a little worse than that.