New Stalin Monument
MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Moscow plans to erect a new statue of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, returning his once-ubiquitous image to its streets after an absence of four decades, a top city official said Wednesday.
Since President Vladimir Putin was elected in 2000, a number of Soviet symbols have been restored to use, reflecting widespread nostalgia for Russia's communist years. But rehabilitation of Stalin, who was denounced after his death in 1953 by the Soviet leadership for encouraging a cult of personality and killing millions of opponents, has previously been out of bounds. Statues of Stalin were removed from Moscow's public spaces in the 1960s.
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