- A controversial sculpture of Soviet leader Josef Stalin was unveiled in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk on Thursday.
- Dismantling of the monument to Stalin in Ulan-Bator on the night of December 22, 1990. In 1986, in Mongolia, as in the USSR, a course was taken to restructure.
- They opened the monument in a solemn atmosphere - wreaths were laid at the memorial, and veterans read several poems dedicated to Stalin.
- "But the Stalin monument stood in Prague for nearly seven years," he adds. "No one ever needed it." Svec's Stalin monument towers over Prague in 1955.
- 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.
- The monument is long gone, but rubble from it is believed to remain behind the heavy doors that guard the underground space.
- Another heated discussion around the name of the Soviet leader has been caused by plans to erect another monument to Stalin in a South Ossetian village.
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- Under popular pressure the monument was dismantled, formally with the purpose of moving elsewhere. Is there a statue of Stalin in Washington?
- 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.