More than 1,000 people gathered on Moscow's Red Square on March 5 for the 70th anniversary of the death of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, whose divisive legacy looms over the Ukraine conflict. Kyiv says the offensive is driven by Stalin-era imperialistic tendencies, while the heightened repression of critics inside Russia is reminiscent of Soviet methods. People waving communist flags or holding portraits of the late ruler waited in a long line to lay flowers on his grave near the Kremlin wall, with one pensioner saying, "People would be happy if we had a leader like him again."