It seems the brainwashing of the Russian youth has been ongoing. There is no other answer for such ignorance. This survey also says that the US is looked at as being an enemy of Russia. With their thinking, is it any wonder that Russia is now heading toward fascism. The rise of a more modern Russia with a modern army is now underway and it will be in a position to march within a decade. Russia will be the nation that leads the invasion of Israel (Ez chap 38, 39).

Russian youth: Stalin good, migrants must go: poll International Reuters: “‘Fifty-four percent agreed that Stalin did more good than bad,’ said Theodore Gerber, a sociologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ‘Forty-six percent disagreed with the statement that Stalin was a cruel tyrant.’
Stalin, who took over from Vladimir Lenin, built a system of terror and repression in which tens millions of people died or were killed. He died in 1953.
‘What we find troubling is that there is a substantial proportion of young people in Russia today who hold positive or ambivalent views on Stalin and his legacy,’ Gerber said.”