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Article: Stalin Casts Shadow Over V-E Remembrance
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- May 8, 2005
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MARIA DANILOVA, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
05-08-2005
Dateline: MOSCOW
With a big portrait of smiling Soviet dictator Josef Stalin fixed in the front of a locomotive, as in 1945, a World War II veteran Mikhail Rachkov, right, accompanied by his niece (no name given) speaks at a platform of Byelorussky railway station in Moscow, Sunday, May 8, 2005, in a re-creation of the arrival of trains bearing victorious Soviet troops back from the war. The 60 veterans aboard the train, which was pulled by a period locomotive, were greeted on the platform by women in traditional Russian costumes and war-era clothes, as well as by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko II)
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