Message #46234

[Jitendra Hydonus]

The new Russia is glorifying Stalin and rewriting history to whitewash Soviet crimes. Some people who had close contact with Putin in his early years as president described his fervent mission to rebuild Russia as a superpower and his admiration not only for imperial czars but also for the Soviet dictator and wartime leader Joseph Stalin, who engineered the Great Terror, the purges of the mid-to-late 1930s, sent millions to the gulag system of prisons and forced labor camps, and had about 800,000 people executed for political reasons. At least 95 of the 110 Stalin monuments in Russia were erected during Putin’s time as leader.

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We reported for months on changes sweeping Russia. Here’s what we found.

~ Washington Post