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Moscow asked to drop Stalin billboards plans for Victory Day

New Kerala Dot Com, Mar 09, 2010 / Russian Public Chamber today asked Moscow city authorities to drop plans to decorate the capital with Joseph Stalin billboards for the 65th Victory Day celebrations in May. The Moscow City Hall has announced plans to set up billboards in the Russian capital to commemorate Stalin's role in the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany.

Russia's Public Chamber asks Moscow to drop Stalin poster plans

RIA Novosti - Russia, Mar 09, 2010 / The Russian Public Chamber on Tuesday asked Moscow city authorities to abandon plans to decorate the city with Joseph Stalin billboards for the 65th Victory Day celebrations.

Liberals Rap Kremlin as Stalin Is Worshipped

The Moscow Times, Mar 08, 2010 / Communists have paid homage to Soviet leader Josef Stalin, while liberals accused the Kremlin of conniving to whitewash the dictator.

Russians speak out against Stalin

Voice of Russia, Mar 07, 2010 / The majority of Russians are opposed to plans by Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov to decorate the city center with posters of Joseph Stalin during the World War II victory celebrations in May. A nationwide poll by the authoritative Levada Center finds a mere 12 percent of respondents hailing the mayor's decision to put up the posters and to erect information points commemorating the Soviet dictator's role in the war during parades that are planned for the 65 th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany on May 9.

On this day -- March 6

North Texas eNews - Bonham TX, Mar 06, 2010 / March 6 is the 65th day of the year (66th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar .

Today in history

Taiwan Headlines, Mar 05, 2010 / Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, French novelist and playwright, is born.

Liberals rap Kremlin as Stalin is worshipped

AlertNet, Mar 05, 2010 / Russian communists paid homage on Friday to Soviet leader Josef Stalin, while liberals accused the Kremlin of conniving to whitewash the dictator.

70 years after Stalin condemns Katyn victims to death

TheNews.pl - Poland, Mar 05, 2010 / March 5 marks the 70th anniversary of Stalin signing the order to kill 22,000 Polish prisoners of war, detained in camps in the Soviet Union.

Stalin will return to Moscow streets on Victory Day

Voice of Russia, Mar 05, 2010 / A war of words over the name of Joseph Stalin, who died 57 years ago, is being fought in Moscow, the city where he is buried.

Siberian mayor says no to WWII veterans' calls for Stalin monument

RIA Novosti - Russia, Mar 04, 2010 / There will be no monument to Joseph Stalin in Irkutsk, despite demands from World War II veterans to honor the Soviet dictator, the mayor of the East Siberian city said.

Moscow Mayor Luzhkov favours Stalin posters

The Moscow News, Mar 03, 2010 / Moscow Mayor supported a plan to display posters with images of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin during the celebrations of World War Two Victory Day in May. Luzhkov said that Stalin's image would features on the decorations in the city, but "in certain proportions".

Moscow mayor defends Stalin poster campaign

Javno - Croatia, Mar 02, 2010 / Moscow's mayor Tuesday defended the city's controversial plans to decorate the city centre with posters of Joseph Stalin during the World War II victory celebrations in May. The city has unveiled plans to put up the posters and erect information points commemorating Stalin's role in the war during parades that are planned for the 65th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany on May 9.

Friday Favorites: J. Stalin, THEESatisfaction, Bassekou Kouyate

The Seattle Times - Seattle WA, Feb 26, 2010 / In which Bay Area rapper J. Stalin leaves Oakland's Cypress Village housing projects for a visit to Seattle's Yesler Terrace.

Stalin posters divide Moscow

The Moscow News, Feb 23, 2010 / Plans by Moscow's city government to put up Victory Day posters extolling Josef Stalin's role in World War II have provoked anger from human rights activists and historians.

Moscow to be decorated in images of Stalin

Kavkaz Center, Feb 23, 2010 / Human rights activists have called on Moscow authorities to review their plans to put up posters of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ahead of the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. "The authorities' intention to fill city streets with the executioner's portraits and use veterans as cover-up should be seen as a political provocation, as another "test" of Stalinists to see if this works," Alexander Brod, Director of the Moscow Bureau on Human Rights and member of the Public Chamber, told Interfax on Sunday.

Chechnya, Ingushetia remember Stalin`s deportations

Voice of Russia, Feb 23, 2010 / The republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia in the Russian North Caucasus remember today a tragic page in the history of their peoples- the 66 th anniversary since the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin deported the entire Chechen people and their Ingush neighbors to Central Asia and Siberia.

BOOKS: 'Yalta: The Price of Peace'

The Washington Times - Washington DC, Feb 19, 2010 / For several generations of foreign-policy students, the term "Yalta" was a code word for an ailing President Roosevelt bartering into communist slavery Poland and other Eastern European nations.

J. Stalin - Prenuptial Agreement

Pitchfork Media, Feb 19, 2010 / Jovan Smith was a child of the crack-blighted urban 1980s, born in the Cypress Village housing projects of Oakland in 1983.

DiCaprio wants to play Stalin

The Telegraph of India, Feb 18, 2010 / Hollywood star Leonardo Di Caprio has revealed that he wants to play the role of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

RUSSIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS AGAINST THE PORTRAITS OF STALIN IN MOSCOW

AZG Daily - Armenia, Feb 18, 2010 / Russia's human rights activists intend to prevent the installation of the booth in downtown Moscow, describing the role of Joseph Stalin in the victory of the Great Patriotic War. The committee of advertising, information and design in Moscow reported that a similar stand would be installed on the Boulevard Ring of Russia's capital "on numerous requests from veterans' organizations".

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Joseph Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Georgian or Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in Russian patronymic nomenclature; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following Lenin's death in 1924, he rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union.

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