Restore the subway and Stalin
Is it a sign of Soviet restoration?Re-Stalinization of a Moscow Subway Station
A central Moscow subway station reopened this week after a painstaking, yearlong restoration of its initial Stalin-era luster, complete with gilt-trimmed words of praise to the Soviet dictator spelled out around the vestibule’s rotunda that add new fuel to debate about his role in Russian history.
That debate has simmered this summer, among politicians, historians, human rights activists and religious leaders, at dinner tables and in blogs, after a resolution passed in July by the parliamentary assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe equated Stalin with Hitler for regimes that “brought about genocide, violations of human rights and freedoms, war crimes and crimes against humanity.”...
In a mystical coincidence characteristic of Russia, Sergei Mikhalkov, who wrote all three versions of the anthem — the original version, the post-Stalin Soviet hymn and the post-Soviet version adopted under then-President Vladimir Putin — died in Moscow on Thursday at 96...
However, Putin Calls Nazi-Soviet Pact Immoral
Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir V. Putin, has published a lengthy article characterizing the Nazi-Soviet pact to divide Poland at the outset of World War II in 1939 as immoral, but he stressed that it was just one of a series of such deals that countries struck with the Nazis at that time...
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