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At Moscow’s central Taganskaya metro station, commuters stream past a newly-restored monument to a former ruler whose reputation is undergoing a dramatic revision in Russia: Joseph Stalin.
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In his later years, Ioseb Jughashvili, or Joseph Stalin, the self-styled “Man of Steel,” was a physical wreck. Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, rendered lame his left hand. Rheumatoid ...
It was 8am at Tbilisi Central Station, and the 870 service had seen better days. Faded Soviet-era wagons waited on the tracks, the red and white livery of Georgian Railways hidden beneath thick layers ...
After announcing its closure in June, Stalin may reopen later this summer in a temporary, outdoor-only format following ...
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin honors freedom fighter Veeran Azhagumuthu Kone and meets Dawoodi Bohra leader Syedna Mufaddal ...
A regional arbitration court in Vologda has ruled in favor of public prosecutors in a case involving a controversial monument to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. The verdict invalidates the contract ...
The original statue depicting Joseph Stalin with a wry smile, surrounded by admiring children and worshipful workers, was removed long before the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
Comrade Stalin is back — at least underground. A monument to the Soviet dictator, once torn down, has been replicated and reinstalled in a Moscow metro station. The original statue, depicting Joseph ...