Stalin's light is shining bright in Mother Russia By Adrian Blomfield in Volgograd(Filed: 25/02/2006)The two portraits on the wall of the director's office in the Battle of Stalingrad Museum look as incongruous a pairing as one is ever likely to find.An oil painting, flanked by two ceremonial swords, shows Josef Stalin in military regalia. Below him hangs a delicate watercolour of the late Queen Mother. Nikita Khrushchev "She was very fond of him, you know," said Boris Usik, the director of the museum in the centre of Volgograd, as Stalingrad was renamed in 1961. "They were both great...
