Russia’s Putin calls for Stalin-style “leap forward”

Russia’s
Putin calls for Stalin-style “leap forward”
Russia needs a “leap
forward” to rejuvenate its sprawling defence industry, President Vladimir Putin
said on Friday, harkening back to the ambitious industrialisation carried out by
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in the runup to World War Two. “We should carry out
the same powerful, all-embracing leap forward in modernisation of the defence
industry as the one carried out in the 1930s,” Putin told his Security Council,
without mentioning Stalin by name.