Why is Stalin regarded as a hero today in Russia?

The Russians are highly ambivalent about Josef Stalin. He is sometimes portrayed heroically, sometimes he is portrayed tragically, sometimes he is portrayed as a kind of madman. They admire his leadership during WWII, against the Nazis, but, they realize he was extremely brutal and repressive, and, they don’t feel that this was really necessary, or useful, most of the time, anyway. The like the fact that Russia was superpower by the end of Stalin’s rule, but, they feel the cost of getting there was too high. https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Stalin-regarded-as-a-hero-today-in-Russia