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Article: Moscow subway re-Stalinized
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- October 29, 2009
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MOSCOW - A Moscow subway station is the newest focus of Russia's
bitter dispute over the legacy of Josef Stalin, whose outsize shadow
still haunts the nation more than 50 years after his death.
Critics of the Communist era were outraged when old Soviet
national anthem lyrics praising Stalin were restored to a rotunda in
the Kurskaya station this summer. Now there is talk of putting a
statue of the dictator back where one used to stand, facing
commuters entering the station.
Moscow's chief municipal ...