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Russia: An Icon of Stalin

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Russia, Arts & Culture, History, Politics, Religion

Window on Eurasia writes [1] about a controversy involving an Orthodox priest in a town near St. Petersburg who put up “an icon showing the figure of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, with some believers and Communists viewing this as simple justice and others as an indication that many Russians have lost any sense of proportion or truth.”