(Gori, Georgia) The 18-foot statue of former communist dictator Josef Stalin has been removed from the square in his hometown of Gori during a late-night clandestine effort. Journalists were kept away by the police.
Erected just prior to his death in 1953, the Gori statue was one of the few monuments to Stalin standing anywhere. Given that, imagine how fortuitous it was to hear that the Memorial Foundation in Bedford, Virginia, decided to unveil a bust of Josef Stalin to sit alongside busts of Roosevelt, Churchill and Truman.
So, I'd call it a push. Stalin loses a place of prominence in his home country of Georgia but picks up a place of prominence in the United States. Just ducky.
Companion post at TJR.
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