What's disturbing -- or at least suitable for the barking moonbat brigade -- is the L. A. Times rhapsodizing about a supposedly benign Soviet past that never existed, and in the process, attacking a free market economy that has yet to be tried.
What kind of "news" is it that a Russian police agency re-erected a statue "this week"? How did the reporters find out about this wholly uninteresting event?
This isn't a story at all, it's a sermon to preach communism.
If the German police erected a statue of Adolph that would be very big news. The Times is - accurately - reporting feelings common among the Russian populace and those are very disturbing.