The Monster Returns: Stalin Looms Large Over Putin’s Russia – Analysis
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By Robert Coalson
(RFE/RL) -- In the second-largest city in Russia’s Tatarstan region, Naberezhnye Chelny, there is an unusual statue of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on the grounds of an unlicensed private school.
Seated casually on a bench, the figure of Stalin leans into a conversation, inviting passersby to sit down...