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Georgia’s Stalin Museum Gives Soviet Version of Dictator’s Life Story

Vera Shalamberidze leaned against a statue of Joseph Stalin and smiled for the photo. “Let me take another,” urged her husband, Zurab. Behind them, other Russian tourists were snapping pictures next to the cramped brick hovel in this small central Georgian town where the Soviet dictator was born in 1878. (more…)

Prof. Palmer August 4, 2015August 15, 2015 Stalin in the News
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