Russian City to Erect Life-Size Statue of Joseph Stalin |
Politico: Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator responsible for millions of deaths in Central and Eastern Europe, will be commemorated with a new life-size statue to be unveiled in Russia. “The decision was prompted by requests from the public. There was a demand,” the governor of the northwestern Vologda region, Georgy Filimonov, wrote in his announcement. The statue will be installed near a museum in Vologda, where Stalin lived in exile from December 1911 to February 1912. Stalin’s totalitarian rule from 1924 until his death in 1953 was a time of mass political repression, ethnic cleansing, and famine in the Soviet Union that killed millions of Soviet citizens (Politico). National Review: Three years after his death, Stalin’s legacy was denounced by his second successor Nikita Khrushchev…The Russian statesman also announced plans to unveil a statue for Ivan the Terrible, who killed tens of thousands of people as the infamous tsar of Russia during the 16th century. Russia legitimized Stalin’s crimes by removing at least two monuments honoring the memory of his victims from Russian-controlled Ukrainian territories in July. One monument was dedicated to the victims of Stalin’s Great Purge, and the other was dedicated to the victims of the Holodomor — the Soviet-made famine that killed between 3.5 and 7 million people from 1932 to 1933 (National Review). |
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They could have picked one up from one of the former soviet controlled countries cheap!