From Human Rights in Ukraine by Halya Coynash:
There is a dramatic difference in the attitude expressed by Ukrainians and Russians to brutal dictator and mass murderer Joseph Stalin, with this having become much more pronounced since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. While Russian responses in 2022 and 2023 changed little, with almost the same absolute majority having expressed a positive attitude and called him “a great leader” earlier, the number of those in Ukraine with a negative attitude to the Soviet dictator has risen sharply.
The Kyiv Independent Institute of Sociology [KIIS] and the independent Russian Levada Centre have been carrying out such surveys in parallel with each other for many years. The KIIS results this year were published on 3 August in Ukrainianand English, while the Levada Centre’s findings were presented on 15 August in Russian. Russia has been occupying Crimea and parts of Donbas and Luhansk oblasts since 2014, and there are now other parts of Ukraine which are currently under Russian control, with this making it impossible to carry out phone surveys everywhere. KIIS notes, however, that, despite some differences, the general trends can be gauged, and it believes that the results obtained “are still highly representative and allow a fairly reliable analysis of public mood of the population.”
Voice of Ukraine 