Stalin Monument Restored in Georgian TownA monument to former Soviet leader Josef Stalin was returned Sunday to the main square of Khashuri, a town in Georgia, the Interfax news agency reported.The 2.5-meter monument was removed from its pedestal during the campaign against Stalin's legacy, but the local people buried it in the ground instead of destroying it. The monument was unearthed and restored several weeks ago. After long negotiations, the local veterans' organization and the United Georgian Communist Party convinced the local authorities to agree to returning the monument to its original pedestal. Several hundred people attended Sunday's ceremony. "Stalin's cause is still alive," Communist leader and retired Soviet army general Panteleimon Georgadze said. "Ordinary people get more and more convinced that they were deceived by so-called democrats in Russia as well as Georgia," Interfax quoted him as saying. "The Soviet Union, the great power, will be restored when people unite around the ideas of Josef Stalin." Stalin, who was born in 1879 in Georgia, died in 1953. He served as leader of the Soviet Union and secretary general of the Soviet Communist Party from 1922 to 1953. |
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