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Article: Residents of Josef Stalin's hometown celebrate 125th anniversary of dictator's birth
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- December 21, 2004
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MISHA DZHINDZKHIKHASHVILI, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
12-21-2004
Dateline: TBILISI, Georgia
Dozens of residents of Josef Stalin's hometown in Georgia celebrated the 125th anniversary of his birth Tuesday, singing, dancing and drinking champagne toasts to the late Soviet dictator.
People cried and kissed a 2-meter-high cardboard cutout of Stalin and laid wreaths at the base of a monument in the small town of Gori 80 kilometers (50 miles), west of the capital, Tbilisi, paying honor to the man who oversaw years of brutal purges and remarkable industrialization of an agricultural society.
"Not a few difficulties we lived through. We stood up to the Germans in the war. We built a great ...
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