Russian Monuments to Stalin Highlight Controversy Over His Legacy | News | The Moscow Times
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Two monuments to Josef Stalin were unveiled in separate Russian regions in one day this week in a face-off that marks a deepening rift within the nation about the Soviet dictator’s legacy.
The Communist Party branch in #Penza — the capital of the eponymous central Russian region — on Wednesday moved a bust of Stalin from its headquarters to the city’s center, despite protests from hundreds of residents, Russian media reports said.
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The Communist Party in the republic of #Marii-El in an online statement also announced the unveiling on Wednesday of a statue to Stalin in the village of Shelanger at the entrance to a meat factory — in what some Russians who describe Stalin as a butcher could consider a symbolic location.
At 2.7 meters high, it could be the first monument to Stalin of such scale to appear in post-Soviet Russia, the party said in its statement, calling the monument a “tribute to a great man” whose “name has been unjustly forgotten for 60 years.”
Penza, photo de l’inauguration de la statue, le 15/07/11
▻http://penzanews.ru/en/photogallery/53510-2011
République des Maris, 9/09/15
▻http://charter97.org/ru/news/2015/9/9/168227