[jb6]

His Peter the Great in Moscow, originally Columbus for Columbia, Georgia (USA) is a horrid cement nightmare, but he and Luzkov are friends so Moscow bought it.

[bobjam]

Too bad Chiang Kai Shek keeps getting left out of the "Allied Leaders of WWII" groupings.

[henkster]

Looks like typical Soviet-style sculpture. I can't help but notice the poses of the three leaders. Stalin looking ahead to the future while FDR and Churchill look to Stalin very deferentially for leadership. But, hey, it's a start. They are at last publicly acknowledging that there were other nations that fought, too.

I've got no problems with the Russians recognizing Stalin's role in WW2. Despite being a monster he did lead them to victory over Hitler. Any sculpture of Stalin honoring victory in the "Great Patriotic War" ought to show him sitting atop a pile of corpses in Red Army uniforms. He squandered the lives of his soldiers in order to win his high-stakes poker game with Hitler.

[bassmaner]

It is important "not to blacken our past too much"

Stalin did a good enough job of that on his own.

It's a national disgrace for America that our children are not taught the truth about this monster who committed greater crimes against humanity than Hitler and the Nazis. If the truth were known, then perhaps leftist ideology would not be as popular as it is (which, of course, is exactly how the academic Left wants to keep it).

[dfwgator]

Stalin was just as guilty as Hitler for starting WWII when they both invaded Poland in 1939.

[RightWhale]

Ishchenko stressed the Yalta monument was not to honor Stalin

Look again.

[Petronski]

I'd love to visit Volgograd, but not while Putin's in charge. I don't trust that guy.

[reagan_fanatic]

Judging by this 'sculpture', you would think Stalin stood 6'11" tall. And look at Roosevelt and Churchill...they both look like they're about to jump out of their seats to spit-shine Stalin's shoes.

Typical Soviet-style art.

[Lukasz]

Looks like political climate is very good to cultivate Stalin cult. Seems to me that Russian youngsters still don’t have proper education in their schools.



MONUMENT TO STALIN TO BE ERECTED IN YAKUTIA

YAKUTSK, March 30 (RIA Novosti, Pyotr Vasilyev) - Yakutia's deputies decided to erect a bust of Joseph Stalin in the city of Mirny's Victory Square on May 9.

The municipal administration said they made the decision after the mayor's office received numerous requests from local veterans and youth organization representatives.

"We could not leave a request made by participants in the Great Patriotic War, especially during the anniversary year, unattended to or satisfied. It is no secret that our front-line soldiers fought under the slogan 'For the Homeland! For Stalin!' I believe that the deputies were right in displaying their civic position," Anatoly Popov, Mirny mayor and chairman of the District Assembly, told the local media.

Mirny citizens have long questioned perpetuating the memory of Stalin. Polls on this theme were held among Mirny residents. The results of the polls showed that the number of those who back the veterans' proposal was greater. It is interesting that young people, too, actively supported the idea of erecting a monument to Stalin.

"Our grandfathers' opinions are sacred to us," said Alexander Derevyanko, a leader of the city youth organization My Generation and decorated with the Order of Courage.

Mirny officials said all the necessary work will be done shortly and a monument to Stalin will be put up in the city square on VE Day.

[GarySpFc]

Volgograd Mayor Yevgeny Ishchenko also said his city is considering changing some street names in honor of the Battle of Stalingrad, which is widely considered a turning point in World War II.

My wife is from Volgograd (Stalingrad), and we still maintain an apartment there for her daughter. The city is one of the few places in Russia where the communist party still controls. I say they are communist, but that is more in name than fact. The residents have a deep nostalgia for The Battle of Stalingrad, and any feelings for Stalin are for his determination to save the city, and not actual love for him. My wife's father taught his children at an early age that Stalin was an evil man. My wife is the youngest of the group, with some as old as 63, and so you can see he started teaching against Stalin long before Khrushchev unmasked the dictator's true evil.

[sergey1973]

It's simply wrong to put monument to Stalin--the worst mass murder of the 20th century anywhere. There are plenty of WWII real heroes that could be commemorated.

[Tribune7]

The should put Neville Chamberlain in there somewhere too. All he did was appease Hilter. Stalin was a co-conspirator.