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Poll: Millennials don’t know who Vladimir Putin is

By Paul Bedard

Published October 17, 2016 12:26pm ET

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Poll: Millennials don’t know who Vladimir Putin is — A watch tower stands in a museum commemorating victims of Soviet-era political repressions located in a former prison camp, some 110 kms (69 miles) northeast of the west Siberian city of Perm, Russia, Friday, March 6, 2015. Historians estimate that under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, 700,000 people were executed during the peak of the purges in 1937-1938. Millions more died of harsh labor and cruel treatment in the giant Gulag prison camp system, mass starvation in Ukraine and southern Russia and deportations of ethnic minorities. (AP Photo/Alexander Agafonov) | Alexander Agafonov

Socialism and communism are up among younger voters in the wake of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ primary fight with Hillary Rodham Clinton, though the millennial generation seems to know little history of the deadly communist legacy, according to a new survey.

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