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  2. List of statues of Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. De-Stalinization - Wikipedia

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    While de-Stalinization had been quietly underway ever since Stalin's death, the watershed event was Khrushchev's speech entitled "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences", concerning Stalin. On 25 February 1956, de-Stalinization became official when he spoke to a closed session of the 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the ...

  4. Stalin Monument (Budapest) - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. 1956 Georgian demonstrations - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Soviet nonconformist art - Wikipedia

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    From the time of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 until 1932, the historical Russian avant-garde flourished and strove to appeal to the proletariat.However, in 1932 Joseph Stalin's government took control of the arts with the 1932 decree of the Bolshevik Central Committee "On the Restructuring of Literary-Artistic Organizations", which put all artists' unions under the control of the Communist ...

  7. Alley of the rulers of Russia - Wikipedia

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    It consists of a set of identical stelae on which busts of all the rulers of Russia are installed, starting with Prince Rurik. The space where the busts are located is a small square, inside the territory at the address - Petroverigsky Lane, house 4, a square near the Turgenev - Botkin estate. The opening of the alley took place on May 26, 2017.

  8. Censorship of images in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    Censorship of images was widespread in the Soviet Union.Visual censorship was exploited in a political context, particularly during the political purges of Joseph Stalin, where the Soviet government attempted to erase some of the purged figures from Soviet history, and took measures which included altering images and destroying film.

  9. On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences - Wikipedia

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    After the repression, Stalin ceased even to consider the opinion of the collective of the party. Examples of repression of some notable Bolsheviks were presented in detail. Stalin's order for the persecution to be enhanced: the NKVD was "four years late" in crushing the opposition, according to his principle of "aggravation of class struggle".