• Stalin still has authority here, because he was Georgian,” explains Nino Chutkerashvili, a filmmaker and native of Tsromi, a central Georgian village.
  • The removal of the Stalin statue from the central square in Gori represents a top-down policy implementation approach to a contested historical monument.
  • The monument to Stalin at the VDNKh trade show park in Moscow was often depicted in Soviet films. After de-Stalinization, it was cut from some of them.
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  • TBILISI, July 31 (Itar-Tass) - Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili on Tuesday spoke against the “return of the monument to Stalin to Gori.”
  • This marks a turnaround from 2010, when 25% of Russians expressed support for a Stalin monument compared with 36% who opposed it.
  • This event once again makes us think about the paradoxical status of Stalin in the history of Russia, reflected like a mirror in the monuments erected to him.
  • Built as the birthday present to Stalin on his 70th birthday, the Stalin Monument in Budapest has become the iconic scene of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956.
  • Under cover of darkness, Georgia takes down a statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin from the central square of his hometown.
  • Built as the birthday present to Stalin on his 70th birthday (December 21st 1949), the Stalin Monument in Budapest has became the iconic scene of the...