http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vladimir-putin-soviet-leader-joseph-stalin-was-no-worse-than-oliver-cromwell-9016836.html Vladimir Putin: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was no worse than Oliver Cromwell Russian President Vladimir Putin A very inaccurate comparison from Putin. Stalin was an evil dictator who betrayed Lenin's revolution and established a military dictatorship which had and has, as much similarity with a socialist state as chalk does to cheese. Cromwell on the other hand,and whether you like him or not, was responsible for creating the concept of Parliamentary democracy in the United Kingdom in place of the "dictatorship" of monarchs with their "divine right of Kings". It should always be remembered that many of the all...