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The Kremlin’s Factory of Resentment

A new history of the Cold War unwittingly exposes Russian distortions of the past. August 29, 2025, 2:40 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

A person is silhouetted in front of a white high relief statue of Stalin with other figures around him.

In May, a replica of a monument to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in Moscow’s Taganskaya metro station. Just like when the original was installed during Stalin’s rule, passersby can once again admire the man responsible for the deaths of millions . In Russia, monuments to people responsible for mass killings and other Soviet-era crimes are springing up like mushrooms after an autumn rain. A monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, the ruthless founder of the Bolshevik secret police, was even

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