No Stalin -- horrible stache -- but I do have a small photo of Lenin here: much cooler.

Old Soviet posters are pretty cool also.

Meatbomb: Heh. Better make sure your next bathroom has nice big walls and a toilet on a pedestal, just in case.

...the shower will get them all moldy.

Where is the courage of your convictions?

Stalin didn't hang, he had a cerebral hemorrage :P

I use him for one of my avatars. Does that count? I also have a tarot deck with his face on the Devil trump.

Also, Children of the Revolution was an awesome movie.

Martin Amis wrote about this issue in Koba the Dread. I think Stalin and Russian Communism got off more lightly in terms of general regard partly because the Communist ideals aren't inherently evil the way the Hitler/Nazi ideals of the supreme Aryan race and extermination of lesser races are.

Oddly, Stalin admired Hitler's anti-Semetic stance so much he adopted it. Before the 1940s Jewish Russians weren't specifically targeted. Statistically speaking they died at the same rate as the general Russian population. Stalin began targeting them, and before his underlings bumped him off he was planning a massive purge of the Jews.

On the lighter side, some really old guy told me the story of how he helped to construct the biggest neon sign ever built, a gigantic portrait of Stalin in Russia.

Stalin was standing next to them when they nervously switched it on. After a few seconds the huge mustache began to flicker with a zapping sound. The story teller cringed, half expecting to be dragged off to be tortured.

After what seemed an interminable silence, Stalin let out a big belly laugh. Phew!

I have several books with pictures of Stalin in (or on) them.

We have tart cards on display in our bathroom. We have hundreds. I'll make a collage out of the girls one day, probably grouped according to skin colour (maybe as a rainbow, but that's a bit cliche). I feel a bit bad about collecting them though - am I stealing food out of their mouths by taking their cards from the phone box? It's a dilemma.

Eide I'd totally forgotten about that movie and I really enjoyed it (and yay for Australian film)!