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The Stalin Monument (Hungarian: Sztálin szobor, pronounced [ˈstaːlin ˈsobor]) was a statue of Joseph Stalin in Budapest, Hungary. Completed in December 1951 as a "gift to Joseph Stalin from the Hungarians on his seventieth birthday", it was torn down on October 23, 1956, by enraged anti-Soviet crowds during Hungary's October Revolution .
A bust of Stalin in the village of Chokh, Dagestan (42.319722, 47.031167). A bust of Stalin at a square in Derbent, Dagestan (42.054718, 48.310115). A bust of Stalin in the town of Dagestanskiye Ogni, Dagestan (until 2021). [17] Bust of Stalin near the Battle of Stalingrad Museum alongside those of Georgy Zhukov and Alexander Vasilevsky. [18]
On 25 February 1956, at a closed session of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered a "secret speech" in which he criticized actions taken by the Stalin regime, particularly the purges of the military and the upper Party echelons, and the development of Stalin's cult of personality, while maintaining support for other ideals ...
After Stalin died in March 1953, he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and Georgy Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union. However the central figure in the immediate post-Stalin period was the former head of the state security apparatus, Lavrentiy Beria.
1956 1937 Sargis Lukashin: Politician, the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Armenia from 1922 to 1925 19 March 1938 [25] Ashkharbek Kalantar: Archaeologist 6 April 1938 [26] by NKVD [27] Khoren I: Head of the Armenian Church: 21 April 1938 [28] Suren Shadunts: Politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan ...
Many statues and busts of Stalin were removed following his death, but the war in Ukraine - which Putin casts as an existential battle similar to the fight against the Nazis - has seen some places ...
WASHINGTON − The House Ethics Committee on Monday released a damaging report alleging there is "substantial evidence" former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., participated in "prostitution, statutory ...
The De-Stalinization in Romania was a process of removing Stalinist policies and Stalin's cult of personality between 1956 and 1965. Implemented by Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, it included the marginalization of Stalinists such as Ana Pauker and a large-scale amnesty of thousands of political prisoners.