Halya Coynash: Putin’s Russia immortalizes bloody dictator
A man holds a portrait of late Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin as activists of various Russian nationalist movements take part in a rally during the National Unity Day in Saint Petersburg on Nov. 4, 2013.
Plans to open a museum dedicated to the murderous dictator Joseph Stalin have been announced just one week after the authorities forced the closure of the Perm-36 Museum on the site of a notorious labour camp for victims of Soviet repression. The Tver branch of Memorial has reported that a house-museum is to be created in the village of Khoroshevo (Tver oblast) where Stalin stayed overnight in August 1943 on his way to an area within safe distance from the front.
