Stalin gets new statue
May 08, 2005AN enthusiastic crowd gathered for the unveiling of a new statue of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in the Siberian district of Mirny ahead of massive Russian commemorations of the defeat of Nazi Germany 60 years ago.
Dignitaries and thousands of local residents gathered for the ceremony in the eastern Siberian republic of Yakutia-Sakha, laying flowers beneath the monument to the wartime leader credited with helping vanquish Nazi Germany in World War II but reviled by critics for his bloody treatment of his own people."We have erected a monument to a great son of Russia who gave everything he had to his nation, his love and his dedication, without receiving anything in return," Mirny's mayor Anatoly Popov was quoted by Ria-Novosti news agency as saying.
"He died without a ruble in his pocket, without a bank account, without good furniture or buildings."
The new statue is the latest sign of Stalin's resurgent popularity among some Russians.
Yeah, and he died preceded by more than ten million of his countrymen for whose deaths he was responsible. This man was a monster on the order of Hitler and Mao. To think that people are nostalgic for him..., words fail me. Read it here.
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