> Feb 1 (Reuters) – A new bust of Soviet leader Josef Stalin has been unveiled in Volgograd ahead of Wednesday’s 80th anniversary of the Red Army’s defeat of Nazi invaders in the bloodiest battle of World War Two.
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> The bust is flanked by two others – Soviet commanders Georgy Zhukov and Alexander Vasilyevsky – beside the Museum of the Battle of Stalingrad – Volgograd’s name from 1925 to 1961, the local news outlet V1.RU reported on Tuesday.
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> Russian President Vladimir Putin is due to visit Volgograd on Wednesday for anniversary celebrations at Mamayev Kurgan, the hilltop war memorial whose 85-metre (279-foot) statue of Mother Russia dominates the city.
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> The battle, fought between 1942 and 1943 and estimated to have claimed 2 million casualties, is widely seen as the moment when the Nazi German forces that had captured most of Europe were finally forced onto the defensive.
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> The industrial city of Tsaritsyn on the River Volga in southern Russia was renamed in honour of Stalin in 1925, but became Volgograd in 1961, eight years after his death, after his legacy fell out of favour.
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> Despite Stalin’s record of presiding over a famine that killed millions in Ukraine and political repression that killed hundreds of thousands, Putin has sought to rehabilitate him as the leader who not only fought off Hitler’s Nazis but also turned the Soviet Union into a significant world power.
> On the eve of the visit to Volgograd of Vladimir Putin, the aggressor country’s president, the ‘Volgograd’ road signs at all main entrances to the city were temporarily replaced with ‘Stalingrad’ signs [Khrushchev’s administration changed the name of the city to Volgograd (Volga City) as part of his programme of de-Stalinisation following Stalin’s death].
There are even rumors that this may not be temporarily, and Kremlin denied these rumors…
How do you say trashy in Russian?
Nikita Khrushchev must be spinning in his grave.
Looks like someone forgot about the whole destalinization thing
Probably the same reason some people miss cunts like Pinochet and Mussolini. They miss “the greatness” of their rule and don’t remember (or ignore) their brutality and use of terror.
Silly Russians, you’ll never fit the remains of the 20 million people he oversaw the death of in that tiny hole.
Hey, does that mean it’s cool if we germans build an Adolf Hitler monument in Berlin?
I suggest him, lifesized, pants down, crying with a pistol in his mouth and a turnip up his ass.
(Turnip for artistic reasons).
But seriously, what the fuck, Russia? This is, like, the worst thing you did in almost 5 minutes!
Based. So fucking based. If Stalin was still around, there’d be no Putin issue or war.
fkn tankies
Life of average citizen greatly improved in USSR compared to tsarist Russian Empire.
They really haven’t made any progress since the Soviet era, huh?
The world we know today would be completly different if not for stalin and the ussr. ¡Hasta la victoria siempre!
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> Feb 1 (Reuters) – A new bust of Soviet leader Josef Stalin has been unveiled in Volgograd ahead of Wednesday’s 80th anniversary of the Red Army’s defeat of Nazi invaders in the bloodiest battle of World War Two.
>
> The bust is flanked by two others – Soviet commanders Georgy Zhukov and Alexander Vasilyevsky – beside the Museum of the Battle of Stalingrad – Volgograd’s name from 1925 to 1961, the local news outlet V1.RU reported on Tuesday.
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> Russian President Vladimir Putin is due to visit Volgograd on Wednesday for anniversary celebrations at Mamayev Kurgan, the hilltop war memorial whose 85-metre (279-foot) statue of Mother Russia dominates the city.
>
> The battle, fought between 1942 and 1943 and estimated to have claimed 2 million casualties, is widely seen as the moment when the Nazi German forces that had captured most of Europe were finally forced onto the defensive.
>
> The industrial city of Tsaritsyn on the River Volga in southern Russia was renamed in honour of Stalin in 1925, but became Volgograd in 1961, eight years after his death, after his legacy fell out of favour.
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> Despite Stalin’s record of presiding over a famine that killed millions in Ukraine and political repression that killed hundreds of thousands, Putin has sought to rehabilitate him as the leader who not only fought off Hitler’s Nazis but also turned the Soviet Union into a significant world power.
Edit. [Also, ‘Stalingrad’ road signs placed at entrance to city of Volgograd due to Putin’s visit](https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/01/31/7387249/)
> On the eve of the visit to Volgograd of Vladimir Putin, the aggressor country’s president, the ‘Volgograd’ road signs at all main entrances to the city were temporarily replaced with ‘Stalingrad’ signs [Khrushchev’s administration changed the name of the city to Volgograd (Volga City) as part of his programme of de-Stalinisation following Stalin’s death].
There are even rumors that this may not be temporarily, and Kremlin denied these rumors…
How do you say trashy in Russian?
Nikita Khrushchev must be spinning in his grave.
Looks like someone forgot about the whole destalinization thing
Fucking insane.
Video of the [unveiling act](https://www.euronews.com/2023/02/01/russia-unveils-new-busts-of-stalin-in-time-for-the-anniverary-of-the-battle-of-stalingrad)
they will never learn
Probably the same reason some people miss cunts like Pinochet and Mussolini. They miss “the greatness” of their rule and don’t remember (or ignore) their brutality and use of terror.
Silly Russians, you’ll never fit the remains of the 20 million people he oversaw the death of in that tiny hole.
Hey, does that mean it’s cool if we germans build an Adolf Hitler monument in Berlin?
I suggest him, lifesized, pants down, crying with a pistol in his mouth and a turnip up his ass.
(Turnip for artistic reasons).
But seriously, what the fuck, Russia? This is, like, the worst thing you did in almost 5 minutes!
Based. So fucking based. If Stalin was still around, there’d be no Putin issue or war.
fkn tankies
Life of average citizen greatly improved in USSR compared to tsarist Russian Empire.
They really haven’t made any progress since the Soviet era, huh?
The world we know today would be completly different if not for stalin and the ussr. ¡Hasta la victoria siempre!