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Today: Russia's admiration for Stalin

Today: Russia's admiration for Stalin

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DATE : Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:41:00 +0000
Entered in Database : 2009-11-05 10:41:00
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Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev has made an unusually outspoken condemnation of attempts to rehabilitate the reputation of Joseph Stalin. In a message posted on his blog President Medvedev called on people to remember the "millions who died because of Stalin's terror". Last year, in a nation wide television poll to name the greatest Russian ever, Joseph Stalin came third. Moscow correspondent Rupert Wingfield Hayes reports on how Russians view their former leader.

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