“I think Stalin did a lot of good but also a lot of bad, but obviously not anything close to what anti-communists claim. Ultimately he and the party were faced with a multitude of impossible problems and I don’t know if the choices I would have made in his shoes would have been any better”.

I don’t think this is very far off what most ML’s believe, that whole “Stalin did nothing wrong” thing is just an internet meme.

Also: Stalin did nothing wrong.