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Why is Stalin back in the Moscow metro?

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par Jeremy Hicks, Professor of Post-Soviet Cultural History and Film, Queen Mary University of London

A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating a mural that was dismantled decades ago. It is the first such statue to be erected in central Moscow since Stalin’s death in 1953 and marks a disturbing new stage in Russia’s authoritarian path.

Tens of millions of people died as a direct result of Stalin’s policies between 1924 and his death. These policies included the forced

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