perseus
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Inspired by the British competition 100 Greatest Britons, one of Russia's biggest television stations Russia has been conducting a nationwide poll for much of this year.
The former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin may have killed millions of his own people but this weekend he could be chosen by Russians as their greatest-ever countryman.
In the summer he held the number one slot but was knocked down several places after the producer of the show appealed to viewers to vote for someone else. Amongst the others on the list are Ivan the Terrible, Lenin, Catherine the Great and Alexander Pushkin.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7798497.stm
Since another empire builder Churchill was voted as the greatest Briton, what next? Germany or Austria voting for Adolf Hitler? Napoleon for France?
What is your greatest countryman? US = Abraham Lincoln?
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