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No Plans to Reinstate Stalin Monument - Georgia

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The issue of putting a dismantled monument to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin back in place in his hometown of Gori is not under consideration, the Georgian Culture Ministry said on Monday.

TBILISI, November 26 (RIA Novosti) - The issue of putting a dismantled monument to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin back in place in his hometown of Gori is not under consideration, the Georgian Culture Ministry said on Monday.

The monument was dismantled in 2010. Georgian authorities said at the time it would be relocated to the Stalin museum and replaced with a memorial to victims of the Georgian-Russian war of August 2008 and Stalin-era reprisals. However, the monument was later found lying on the ground outside a decrepit building several miles from Gori.

In October, local residents gathered 5,000 signatures under a petition to return the monument to its original site in the city’s central square.

But the ministry said it has not received any petitions from the residents or any official documents from municipal authorities.

“This question [of restoring the Stalin monument] is not under consideration and so no decision has been made or is likely to be made in the foreseeable future,” the ministry press service said.

Born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in 1878, Stalin lived the first four years of his life in a modest wooden house in Gori, a small city some 40 miles from the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. His former home now stands in front of the two-story State Stalin Museum, opened by the dictator’s security chief and fellow Georgian, Lavrenty Beria, in 1937, at the height of the Great Terror, in which millions died.

 

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