Other Communists openly defend Stalin as a great leader.

The last ambassador was famous for fawning over Stalin, defending Stalin's bloody purges.

Mrs. Andreyeva prefers not to be described as a Stalinist, the dictator's name being redolent with unpleasant connotations, but she defends Stalin as a man misjudged.

For a party that had defended Stalin, this wasn't such a bitter pill.

The answer, surely, is not that anyone still wishes to defend Stalin, Mao or Kim Il Sung, but that nobody knows what more to say.

Soon, his conviction stout and heated as the stove, he was defending Stalin, arguing that yes, there were victims under Stalin, but so was there faith.

In it, Buck was quoted as saying "for a time I gave the appearance of defending Stalin.

The fight began with publication in the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya of a full-page article defending Stalin and questioning the liberalization of Soviet society.

It defended Stalin and branded European Communism a "deviation."

I blush to remember my attempts to defend Mao and Stalin as he extolled the virtues of Trotsky.