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Georgia to replace Stalin statue with S.Ossetia war monument

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The Georgian Culture Ministry said on Tuesday it would build a monument to victims of the 2008 war with Russia and Soviet-era purges to replace a statue of dictator Joseph Stalin in his hometown of Gori.

The Georgian Culture Ministry said on Tuesday it would build a monument to victims of the 2008 war with Russia and Soviet-era purges to replace a statue of dictator Joseph Stalin in his hometown of Gori.

The six-meter statue of the Soviet dictator on a nine-meter granite pedestal was erected in Gori's central square in 1952 and demolished last June.

It will be replaced by 11 naked walking figures, representing Georgian victims of the war with Russia in August 2008 and victims of Stalinist repression.

Stalin was born in Gori in 1879.

TBILISI, February 8 (RIA Novosti)

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