Supposedly there is even a political movement:
During the parliamentary elections in December 1999 a new Stalinist Bloc for the USSR was set up to contest for seats in the Duma. The dictator's face appeared on posters and banners all over the capital - weakly echoing those that bedecked the city in his heyday - and the party came within a whisker of the five per cent threshold needed to hold seats in the lower house.
Human rights groups are alarmed by a revival in Stalin's popularity - expected to reach a peak next week - blaming it on the lack of civil rights, corrupt officials and the government's indifference to ordinary people.
Stalin - Johnson's Russia List 2-21-03