Kammala jumla mai zuwa: A shekara ta 2008, Murray ya gano "ɗaya daga cikin nasarorin" "tsarin al'ummomin Tarayyar Soviet" a matsayin inganta "ci gaban al'adu, harshe da ilimi na kowace kabila, komai ƙanƙanta ko kuma yadda aka yi watsi da tarihi". Marubucin Edward Lucas ya soki wannan bayanin a cikin "The Guardian" wanda ya zargi Murray da yin watsi da "Chechens, Crimean Tatars da sauran wadanda ke fama da kisan kai na Stalin". A cikin wani ɗan gajeren tarihin CPGB, wanda aka buga a 1995, Murray ya rubuta cewa: "Abubuwan da suka faru a cikin USSR waɗanda ba za a iya gafartawa ba kuma waɗanda a ƙarshe suka lalata duk hangen nesa na Socialism a yau ba za a iya musun su ba. Ko 'yan kwaminisanci a duniyar jari hujja za su iya ko ya kamata su yi fiye da yadda suka yi shi ne abin da ake jayayya sosai". A cikin 2016, Oliver Kamm yayi sharhi a cikin "The Times": "A takaice dai, Mista Murray ya yi imanin cewa 'yan gurguzu na Burtaniya a cikin shekarun 1930 sun cancanci tallafawa Babban Ta'addanci, Shari'ar Moscow da yunwa a Ukraine. Mista Murray ya goyi bayan mulkin kama karya mafi ban tsoro a duniyar zamani". Murray ya kasance mai sukar David Miliband a matsayinsa na Sakataren Harkokin Waje, yana mai jayayya cewa matsayinsa kan
Rikicin Georgia na 2008 ya bayyana shi a matsayin "mai ra'ayin mazan jiya", wanda tsarinsa ya "bayyana a fili inda yake tsaye a kan babban rarrabuwar kawuna a siyasar duniya a yau. Shi ne na daular Amurka. "