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There will be no monument to Joseph Stalin...
hour and freed Europe from the tyranny of Nazism. However, rights organizations and analysts, among others, say that Stalin"s mass purges of the army in the years before the war left the country exposed to an attack by Germany."All our countries achievements, including victory in World War Two, were in spite of Stalin, not thanks to him," Leonid Gozman, leader of the Right Cause party, said in February.
In February, Moscow authorities announced that billboards bearing Stalin"s image would be put up around the capital to mark May 9 Victory Day celebrations. The move has been condemned by human rights groups, who have pledged to distribute their own information on Stalin"s crimes.
Defending the decision, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov said while he was not a Stalin apologist, the billboards reflected "objective history."
A poll last year by the All-Russian Public Opinion Center to coincide with the 130th anniversary of Stalin"s birth found that 37% of
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