Stalin Is Making a Comeback in Russia. Heres Why. Opinion | Last week saw the unveiling of a monument to Josef Stalin in the Moscow Metro’s Taganskaya station, a replica of a piece that was installed in 1950 and removed during the de
Joseph Stalin | After a nearly six-decade absence, face of Joseph . . . A new statue was unveiled by the authorities this month, showing Stalin gazing sagely into the distance, flanked by adoring workers and children holding out flowers to him A replica of one that was removed in 1966 during a de-Stalinisation campaign, the new relief quickly became an attraction, with people leaving flowers, stopping to pose for pictures, including with their children, or just watching pensively
Why is Stalin back in the Moscow metro? - Asia Times A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating a mural that was dismantled decades ago It is the first such statue to be erected in central Moscow since Stalin’s death in 1953 and marks a disturbing new stage in Russia’s authoritarian path Tens of millions of people died as a direct result of Stalin’s policies between 1924 and his death These policies included the forced collectivization of agriculture, the Gulag