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Article: Stalin's re-emergence casts shadow over Moscow celebrations; Long- dead leader making a comeback with monuments in the works and criticism muted
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
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- May 9, 2005
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MOSCOW (AP) - One poster stands out among the billboards splashed
across Moscow for celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the defeat
of Nazi Germany: Josef Stalin against the backdrop of a Red Army
soldier raising the Soviet hammer-and-sickle over the Reichstag in
Berlin.
Stalin always has been a contradictory figure in Russia, seen as
either the powerful boss who led the country to victory over the
Nazis and made it a 20th century industrial giant or the tyrant
responsible for killing millions of his own people.
Under President Vladimir Putin, he appears to be making a
comeback, with monuments in the works and criticism muted.
After waves of denouncements following Stalin's death in 1953 ...