July 16, 2025 - During Vladimir Putin’s time at the Kremlin, over 100 statues of Stalin were erected throughout the Russian Federation. At the same time, BBC reports, many of the over 700 plaques commemorating Stalin’s victims have been removed. A sculpture commemorating Stalin was installed last May in ...

May 21, 2025 - Opinion | Last week saw the unveiling of a monument to Josef Stalin in the Moscow Metro’s Taganskaya station, a replica of a piece that was installed in 1950 and removed during the de-Stalinization of the early 1960s. When Vladimir Putin became president at the turn of the millennium, there ...

May 29, 2025 - According to Russian media reports, as of 2023 there were 110 monuments to Stalin around the country, with 95 installed under Putin, including some during the past two years. A bust of Stalin was unveiled in Melitopol in the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine on the 9 May Victory ...

February 2, 2023 - A new bust of Soviet leader Josef Stalin has been unveiled in Volgograd ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to the city on February 2, the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Army's victory over German forces in a key World War II battle in the city then known as Stalingrad.

May 15, 2025 - Moscow’s Metro installed a replica of a long-removed monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, further fueling debate over Russia’s steady rehabilitation of his image under President Vladimir Putin.

Just last week, a Stalin bas-relief appeared in the Moscow metro, replacing one that had been removed in 1966. Stalin's busts were even installed in the occupied Ukrainian city of Melitopol to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory Day. Putin also personally ordered the airport in Volgograd to ...

June 23, 2020 - A May 2020 conference entitled ... a new statue of Stalin was unveiled near the city of Kirov. Despite Stalin being one of the darkest figures in Russian history, according to a 2018 poll, half of Russian youth up to age 24 had never heard of the atrocities committed under his ...

May 9, 2025 - On May 8, the Communist Party of Russia put up the statue to mark Victory Day, which celebrates the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. A plaque on the monument calls Stalin the “organizer and inspirer” of the Soviet victory, and credits him as a hero “from grateful descendants.” ...

May 30, 2025 - The statuewas installed at the Taganskaya station to mark the 90th anniversary of the Moscow Metro, the sprawling subway known for its mosaics, chandeliers and other ornate decorations that was built under Stalin.

November 1, 2017 - MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin inaugurated a monument to the victims of Stalinist purges on Monday, but Soviet-era dissidents accused him of cynicism at a time when they say authorities are riding roughshod over civil freedoms.

May 23, 2025 - The statue is a duplicate of an original that was erected in 1950, three years before Stalin's demise, as a tribute to his part in the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. Yet, it was dismantled in the 1960s amidst the "de-Stalinisation" era. ... Under Putin's leadership, ...

July 8, 2025 - A large statue of Stalin (created in 1952 by sculptor E.V. Vuchetich) stood in a southern suburb of Volgograd until 1961. A huge statue of Lenin, created by the same sculptor, was set up in the same spot and on the same base in 1972.

May 9, 2025 - Under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's rule, millions of Ukrainians died during the Holodomor, a man-made famine in 1932–1933. The dictator also oversaw mass deportations, purges of Ukrainian intellectuals and leaders, and the suppression of the Ukrainian language and culture.

May 23, 2025 - Last week, the Moscow metro installed a statue honoring Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. A replica of a monument removed during the 1960’s de-Stalinization, the piece reflects the resurgence...

November 14, 2023 - While plaques marking his rule of terror disappear, the Soviet dictator's popularity is on the rise.