Split in the Ruling Class over Stalin?

Medvedev has just out with an attack on the rehabilitation of Stalin. The BBC article is here, the Russian version of the speech is здесь, and I haven’t found an English translation yet.  What do you make of this development?

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Name of Russia – Top 50

who would you put on the list of the top twelve Russians of all time? If you said “Stalin,” you are correct… And if you take a look at the “polny spisok” on the page linked above, you’ll see that our very own soon-to-be-featured Ilya Muromets came in at #25 – ahead of Gogol, Chekhov, [...]

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