Should Stalin be taught by schools to be a hero?

[Santa Byzantina]

Stalin and Hitler planned the war together (by dividing all the Eastern European nations between the two of them - check the "Secret Protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact"). They roughly launched the war together, by BOTH attacking Poland in September 1939, and the only major difference between those two lunatics was the fact that one of them wasn't merely wicked to the core, but also a brainless tool who got played by the other.

But for sure, Stalin should be "honoured" in all kinds of criminology and psychology textbooks as the perfect historical example of a psychopath.

[Bukravia]

I personally don't believe we should teach schools about him being a "hero". It would make more sense to show his contributions to the war effort in the Second World War, while also showing his "evil" side pre-war and after the war (Holodomor, Political prisoners in the Gulag, Executions for dissidents (potential and confirmed), etc.)

However, this might probably be a biased view since I don't like communists, especially since they were also the ones that aided the communist terrorist groups in my country.

[United Northen States Canada]

Stalin should be taught as exactly what he was.. A brutal dictator who killed lots of innocent people and managed to destabilize many countries and regimes through his crimes and terrro