MOSCOW, February 18 (RIA Novosti)
Memorial.Memorial"s leader Arseny Roginsky said that Stalin stands should also contain information about the senseless sacrifice and merciless actions of the Soviet leader in relation to his own army and people.
"The Germans do not put up Hitler portraits, even though he was their commander-in-chief. So why should we?" said Lyudmila Alekseyeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group. "It was my father who perished in that war, who helped win it, not Stalin."
"History must be preserved as it is," Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov believes. "We should draw conclusions from our mistakes and be proud of our victories. Victory [in that war] would have been impossible without the policy of industrialization and the construction of thousands of tanks, all thanks to Stalin, who was the commander-in-chief."
"You cannot erase Stalin from the history of the Great Patriotic War [1941-1945, WWII]," said Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and only president of the
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