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Seventy years after Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin “gifted” Warsaw its towering Palace of Culture and Science, the skyscraper ...
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.
Internet users berated news outlet Reuters for referring to Joseph Stalin’s legacy as "polarizing" in a story recognizing the 70th anniversary of the Soviet leader’s death. Reuters published a ...
A California professor was widely hounded on Twitter for praising the legacy of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, calling him “one of the greatest leaders” of the 20th century.
Fifty-seven years after his death and nearly 20 years after the collapse of the state he helped build, Joseph Stalin still haunts post-Soviet Russia.
Joseph Stalin went into the libraries of Communist Party officials to see if their books had truly been read or merely served to decorate the room. Stalin prized his own books and used bookmarks ...
From the tiny steps leading up to the second floor, to his private pool that was only 5-feet deep, to the small army cot in which he slept, many of Stalin's peculiarities are on display just a few ...
According to the prominent Russian human-rights group Memorial, during the time that Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, from 1928 until his death in 1953, he was responsible for the deaths of probably ...
A sculpture of Joseph Stalin was destroyed in Tbilisi in 1961, but Grigori Oniani, a collector of the Soviet dictator’s memorabilia, recovered the nose and displays it at his home/museum.
Stalin-Era Cable Cars Make for Thrilling Daily Commute, ... It is in a rusty gondola high above this town in the Caucasus Mountains, built when Joseph Stalin still ruled the Soviet Union.