Succes schreef op 2 september 2022 13:49:
Ik snap het probleem niet ... als Rusland zijn eigen standbeelden (van oa Stalin) al jaren zelf verwijdert, dan dunkt mij dat iemand anders dat helemaal mag doen (hij was nou namelijk niet echt 'moeder teresa').
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In Russia, they tore down lots of statues, but little changed
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Statues of Stalin, the Soviet dictator who died in 1953, quickly vanished across the empire he ruled. One prominent exception was his hometown, Gori, in Georgia, which waited until 2010 to remove him from its central square.
Today, however, the tyrant, whose body was removed in 1961 from a mausoleum in Red Square that still holds Lenin’s corpse, has never been more popular in Russia. An opinion poll last year found a record 70% thought Stalin played a positive role in Russian history.
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www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/world/euro...