(I did work in "old" russia with some soviets (and the good old babushkas))! So maybe I'm an old stalinist at heart :-) :-) :-)
In a funny way, stating that you are a " stal' " is not so bad in France, because there are no real confusion with the "real thing"! "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman