released : 6 Mar 2023 at 09: 12 Thousands waited in line to lay wreaths on Stalin’s tomb. (Photo: AFP) MOSCOW: More than a thousand individuals collected on Moscow’s Red Square on Sunday for the 70th anniversary of the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, whose dissentious tradition looms over the Ukraine dispute. Kyiv states the offensive is driven by Stalin-era imperialistic propensities, while the increased repression of critics inside Russia is reminiscent of Soviet techniques. People waving communist flags or holding pictures of the late totalitarian waited in a long line to lay flowers on his tomb near the Kremlin wall. “People would be delighted if we had a leader like him onceagain,” stated Yuri, a Russian pensioner. Stalin, born in Georgia in 1878, changed the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state throughout his almost three-decade guideline. He arranged a character cult around himself and administered over purges that saw millions performed or sentout to the gulag system, a large network of jail camps. But in Russia, lotsof appreciation him for singlehandedly beating Hitler in 1945 — a variation greatly objectedto by historians — and bringback Russia’s magnificence. Drawing parallels with that history is part of the messaging put forward by the Kremlin to assistance the present Ukraine offensiv
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