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Article: Hometown toasts a tyrant on Stalin's 125th birthday
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- December 22, 2004
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MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
12-22-2004
Hometown toasts a tyrant on Stalin's 125th birthday -- War leadership, not purges, recalled
By MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: 12-22-2004, Wednesday
Section: NEWS
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TBILISI, Georgia - Dozens of residents of Josef Stalin's hometown celebrated the 125th anniversary of his birth Tuesday, singing, dancing and drinking champagne toasts to the late Soviet dictator.
People cried and kissed a 6-foot-tall cardboard cutout of Stalin and laid wreaths at the base of a monument in the small town of Gori, 50 miles west of the capital, Tbilisi, ...