There is controversy over a monument to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin that was placed in the Moscow underground. While some Russians applaud the monument as a historical remembrance, others argue that it is inappropriate to honour someone who oversaw so much misery.
The life-size wall sculpture in Moscow’s Taganskaya metro station is a reproduction of a memorial that was presented in the same station in 1950, three years before to Stalin’s death. It shows Stalin standing on Red Square in the city with a group of Soviet residents staring at him in awe.
During Stalin’s 1937–1938 Great Terror, which included purges of his actual and alleged adversaries as well as show trials, about 700,000 individuals were put to death. Numerous additional Soviet nationals were sent to the gloomy system of prison camps known as the Gulag, which was dispersed throughout the biggest nation in the world.
The new monument, which was unveiled to the public on May 15, was one of the Moscow metro’s “gifts” to travellers in honour of the 90th anniversary of the expansive, elaborate, and renownedly effective transit system, the metro said in a statement.
The original title of the piece, “Gratitude of the People to the Leader and Commander,” was a tribute to Stalin’s contribution to the Soviet Union’s victory in World War II, which Russia commemorated this year with great fanfare.
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