Didn’t you hear Saakashvili removed the statue of Stalin from Gori? Putin’s neo-Soviet Chekist Russia gets mad when nations destroy such Soviet monuments. They call it blasphemy to destroy Soviet monuments. They don’t consider their own mummified Lenin monument blasphemous though.
Well, playing American friend you have to drop some of your principles.
Russians have started to remove Stalin’s statues in late 50s. They barely had a few by 1989.
It took 21 more years for Saakashvili to get rid of that.
In the USSR all Stalin's statues have been removed in the sixties. (except the one on his grave). The fact that Saakashvili's removing was more recent makes Georgia look more Stalinist than Russia.
Putin’s neo-Soviet Chekist Russia gets mad when nations destroy such Soviet monuments. They call it blasphemy to destroy Soviet monuments.
This applies solely to the monuments in honour (and often on a grave) of Soviet soldiers deceased during the WWII.
They don’t consider their own mummified Lenin monument blasphemous though.
Lenin isn't another name for Stalin.