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 ...

May 20, 2025 - Under Putin, who is both an admirer of the Soviet Union and tsarist Russia, the tide began to turn. Before 2014, Russia averaged four new Stalin statues a year.

May 21, 2025 - The high relief “People's gratitude to the leader and military leader” at Taganskaya subway station depicts a statue of Joseph Stalin. Sergei Bulkin / TASS · 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 were a mere handful of such Stalin monuments and statues across Russia.

May 31, 2025 - At the unveiling of the Wall of ... period in our history…" Nonetheless, an estimated 105 statues honoring the brutal dictator have been erected since Putin came to power....

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.

May 31, 2025 - At the unveiling of the Wall of ... period in our history…" Nonetheless, an estimated 105 statues honoring the brutal dictator have been erected since Putin came to power....

May 23, 2025 - The life-sized statue depicts USSR dictator Joseph Stalin - a leader current Russian President Vladimir Putin has been compared to - who was responsible for the deaths of millions, in a sanitized and inaccurate light.

November 14, 2023 - An investigative channel on social media site Telegram called "We can explain" says there are 110 Stalin statues in Russia - 95 erected during President Vladimir Putin's rule and at least four during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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.

October 3, 2023 - They might as well put up statues of Adolph, Mao, or Pol Pot. ... Unsurprising Putinish behaviour. Putin was a paid-up member of the communist party and an op with the KGB. He'll play to whatever tune keeps him power, including that peculiar Russian flavoured obsession with the cult of personality for criminal psychopaths like Stalin.

January 1, 2024 - ... In June 2020, a communist businessman named Aleksei Zorov put up a 3-meter bronze statue of Stalin on private property in the city of Bor, directly across the Volga River from the regional capital, Nizhny Novgorod.

November 7, 2016 - Its construction is an obvious act of homage by the elites to their current boss; Putin has floated the idea of Russia as a separate Orthodox civilization, and the statue was erected in front of the Kremlin’s Borovitskaya Tower, where Putin and other officials enter the building. By contrast, the monument to Ivan the Terrible is an act of veneration of Stalin by proxy and is in line with plans by local mayors, governors, and Communist Party activists to put up Stalin memorials across Russia—a campaign that is causing the Kremlin quite a headache.

May 28, 2019 - It is part of an effort by the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin to justify his “own authoritarian ruling style,” says Alexander Rudnitsky, the head of the local branch of Memorial, a human-rights organization.

May 25, 2025 - Although statues of Stalin have appeared in areas outside the Russian capital under Putin's rule, this is the first time this has happened in Moscow

November 14, 2023 - An investigative channel on social media site Telegram called "We can explain" says there are 110 Stalin statues in Russia - 95 erected during President Vladimir Putin's rule and at least four during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

June 1, 2025 - It replaces an earlier tribute that was removed in the decade following Stalin’s 1953 death. It was part of a drive to root out his deadly “cult of personality,” and reckon with decades of repression marked by show trials, nighttime arrests, and millions killed or thrown into prison camps as “enemies of the people.” · Muscovites have given differing responses to the unveiling earlier this month, with some recalling how the country lived in fear under his rule.

May 30, 2025 - The unveiling came weeks after Putin signed a decree renaming the airport in Volgograd as Stalingrad — as the city was called when the Soviet Red Army defeated Nazi German forces there in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II.

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 of Stalin imagery in public spaces under President ...