Soviet leader Josef Stalin's legacy includes mass purges and executions. Statues of him in Russia came down decades ago, but in recent years new statues have cropped up, including one this week.

Contrastingly, the statue portrays Stalin as a venerable figure, idolized by his citizens with representations of laborers and young ones stretching their hands toward him adoringly. Lauded as a ...

Stalin statue removed in Georgian home town By Reuters June 25, 20108:19 AM PDTUpdated June 25, 2010 ...

Unveiled in 1955, after three years of steady chiseling, the 56-ft.-high statue of Stalin stands atop a 40-ft. base, flanked by eight slightly smaller figures representing workers, soldiers ...

Russian governor shows off new Stalin statue to 'honour' history By Reuters October 11, 20245:05 AM PDTUpdated October 11, 2024 ...

This is surely the hotchpotch ideology of Putin’s Russia at its worst An Orthodox priest blessed a new statue of Stalin before telling the assembled crowd: "Yes, the Church suffered under Stalin ...

The statue is a duplicate of an original that was erected in 1950, three years before Stalin's demise, as a tribute to his part in the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.

The statue once stood on a prominent square in the city but was removed in June 2010. Debate has raged ever since in Gori -- where Stalin was born in 1878 -- over whether the monument should be ...

The documentary film "A Trial in Prague" is about the Slansky trials which took place in Prague in 1952. During the last five years of Stalin's rule, as Israel turned more and more to the West ...