On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:15:59 -0000, "Jim Doyle"
wrote:

Stalin-Putin, Putin-Stalin. The more things change, the more they stay the
same.

Where, pray tell, are the similarities? They're both Russian.... ummm.
That's about it I guess!

While I don't know about Putin's ancestry, Stalin wasn't Russian, he
was Georgian (originally named Djugashvili or something like that).