[lbo-talk] Brand spankin' new Stalins

[Chris Doss]

I checked it out, and the proposed monuments (plural)
are not really to Stalin -- they are more monumente to
the Big Three, in honor of the 60th anniversary of the
Great Victory. Georgian (surprise!) sculpter Zurab
Tsereteli, already fanous for his Peter I
(http://www.rusnet.nl/news/2003/11/18/culture01.shtml),
Princess Diana
(http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010705/world.htm#3),
Putin, Christopher Colombus
(http://columbus.vanderkrogt.net/es/sevilla_egg.html) 
and proposed 9/11
(http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t4896.html)

 and Beslan memorials, is doing one each for Moscow,
Yalta, and Belgorod.

The Moscow City Government denied yesterday, however,
that a statue was going up in Moscow.

The statue proposed for Yalta is Stalin, Churchill and
Roosevelt in armchairs sitting around a table as in
the famous photograph; the one for Belgorod is Stalin
and Zhukov leaning over a table looking at a war map.
The Belgorod monument was proposed to City Hall by the
city's WWII veterans. I don't know what the seemingly
vetoed Moscow monument was intended to be like.

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