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    Stalin's Monument (Czech: Stalinův pomník) was a 15.5 m (51 ft) granite statue honoring Joseph Stalin in Prague, Czechoslovakia. It was unveiled on 1...
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    The Stalin Monument (Hungarian: Sztálin szobor) was a statue of Joseph Stalin in Budapest, Hungary. Completed in December 1951 as a "gift to Joseph Stalin...
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  • Stalin Monument may refer to: Stalin Monument (Budapest) Stalin Monument (The Hague) Stalin Monument (Prague) List of statues of Stalin This disambiguation...
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    center of Prague. The kinetic sculpture was erected in 1991, on the plinth left vacant by the late-1962 demolition of an enormous monument to former Soviet...
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    be : Stalin ... Numerous pictures and statues of Stalin adorned public places. In 1955 a giant monument dedicated to Stalin was constructed in Prague and...
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    Stalin's statues This is a list of former and current known monuments dedicated to Joseph Stalin, many having been removed as a result of de-Stalinization...
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    Otakar Švec (category Artists from Prague)
    1892, in Prague-New Town – 3 March 1955, in Prague) was a Czechoslovak sculptor best known for his colossal granite Monument to Stalin in Prague. A pupil...
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    II. The IS acronym is the anglicized initialism of Joseph Stalin (Ио́сиф Ста́лин, Iosif Stalin). The heavy tanks were designed as a response to the capture...
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    at the time in what was then the Berlin district of Friedrichshain. Stalin monuments were generally removed from public view by the leadership of the Soviet...
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    Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953), nicknamed "The Man of Steel",...
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    Joseph Stalin, second leader of the Soviet Union, died on 5 March 1953 at his Kuntsevo Dacha after suffering a stroke, at age 74. He was given a state...
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    Vasily Iosifovich Stalin Dzhugashvili (Georgian: ვასილი იოსების ძე სტალინი ჯუღაშვილი, Russian: Василий Иосифович Сталин Джугашвили; 21 March 1921 – 19...
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    December 2012 "Georgia to Reinstate Stalin Monument", RIA Novosti, 21 December 2012 Bakradze, Lasha. "Should Stalin Keep His Own Museum?". TEDxTbilisi...
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    the Soviet Union (see Iron Curtain and COMECON). The world's largest Stalin Monument was unveiled on Letná hill in 1955 and destroyed in 1962. The 4th Czechoslovak...
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    Joseph Stalin started his career as a robber, gangster as well as an influential member and eventually the leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian...
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  • The accusation that Joseph Stalin was antisemitic is much discussed by historians. Although part of a movement that included Jews and rejected antisemitism...
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  • Neo-Stalinism is the promotion of positive views of Joseph Stalin's role in history, the partial re-establishing of Stalin's policies on certain or all...
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    Publishers, Moscow. This work discusses Konev's taking of Berlin, Prague, his work with Zhukov, Stalin, his field meeting with General Omar Bradley and Jascha Heifetz...
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  • De-Stalinization (category Stalinism)
    Its Consequences", which denounced Stalin's cult of personality and the Stalinist political system. Monuments to Stalin were removed, his name was removed...
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    Kremlin Erects Monument to the Repressed". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 3 February 2024. Retrieved 6 November 2017. "Stalin-era mass grave...
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    (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by dictator Joseph Stalin and in Soviet satellite states between 1944 and 1953. Stalin had previously made a career as a gangster...
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  • (Prague Castle) Piss (Černý) Polibek (Petřín) Réva Slavín Stalin Monument (Prague) Statue of Alois Jirásek, Prague Statue of Bedřich Smetana, Prague Statue...
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    The early life of Joseph Stalin covers the period from Stalin's birth, on 18 December 1878 (6 December according to the Old Style), until the October Revolution...
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    of Joseph Stalin. She was born in Baku to a friend of Stalin, a fellow revolutionary, and was raised in Saint Petersburg. Having known Stalin from a young...
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    is located in the entrance hall, and features a view of Prague with the former Stalin monument in Letná Park in the middle. On the top floor of the tower...
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    and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and also known as the Hitler–Stalin Pact and the Nazi–Soviet Pact, was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany...
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    Over time, Joseph Stalin resided in various places: Stalin's house, Gori, Georgia, his birthplace and now a museum Tiflis Spiritual Seminary Kureika house...
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    needed] was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she became an international...
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    his atelier in Prague at age 44. Štursa's nephew Jiří Štursa was the architect of Stalin's Monument (Prague). Art nouveau funerary monument for artist Max...
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    The Monument to Soviet Tank Crews (Czech: Památník sovětských tankistů) was a World War II memorial located in Prague. It is also known as the Pink Tank...
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