The monument to Joseph Stalin in the Georgian city of Gori was erected in 1952 while Stalin was still alive.
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The monument to Joseph Stalin in the Georgian city of Gori was erected in 1952 while Stalin was still alive.
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Despite the denunciation of the Stalin personality cult, the monument survived all these years and was dismantled only last week.
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One more monument dedicated to Stalin stands in the courtyard of the museum.
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Stalin, or Soso Dzhugashvili as he was known as a child, was born and spent his childhood in this house.
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Stalin’s pipes. The leader smoked a pipe stuffed with Herzegovina Flor tobacco.
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One of the 12 copies of Stalin’s death mask.
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The armored carriage that Stalin traveled in weighs about 80 tons.
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Stalin went to the Tehran conference in this carriage. Photo: the consultation room.
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Keke Geladze-Dzhugashvili, Stalin’s mother, was buried in 1937 in the Mtatsminda Pantheon, which is the funeral site for many famous Georgian writers, artists, scientists and national heroes.
