Penguin Egg: Yes, Ewan MacColl did write a song in praise of Stalin, "The Ballad of Stalin". Peggy Seeger included it, with due apologies, as an appendix to _The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook_. The copyright date is 1992, but he seems to have written it in 1956, after Stalin's death but before Khrushchev's denunciation.

John Manifold, the Australian Communist poet to whom we are indebted for "The Griesly Bride" and "The Bunyip and the Whistling Kettle", wrote a treacly elegy at about the same time.