Pro-Stalin activists in Siberia plan to erect a bust of notorious Soviet security chief Lavrenty Beria next to a recently unveiled bust of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
Denis Khanzhin, the chairman of the Russian Spirit group in the city of Surgut, said on Sept. 22 that activists are deciding if the new bust will be of Beria, Russian revolutionary Sergei Kirov, or Ivan Yefremov, the Soviet science fiction writer who promoted a “communist future of humankind.”
