Referring to Soviet Union
In
an announcement sure to further dismay human rights activists and
historians in Russia and abroad, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov has
announced that portraits of Josef Stalin would be featured from now on
as part of future city celebrations, Intefax reports.
Plans
by the Moscow city authorities to display posters glorifying Stalin’s
role in winning World War II are eliciting strong opposition from human
rights advocates, Lifenews.ru reported on Thursday.Heroic opposition leader Oleg Kozlovsky (click his name in our sidebar “categories” section to read all about him) reports the the Kremlin is escalating his persecution to a shocking new neo-Soviet level:
When one speaks of advantages of the Putin’s regime over the Soviet system, there usually is one achievement that is never disputed. It is the freedom of travel abroad. In the USSR, very few people were able to visit the Soviet Bloc countries, and only a tiny minority could see the “capitalist world.” But after the USSR collapsed, Russia opened its borders, removed numerous obstacles for international travel, and millions of Russians could travel the world. After Putin came to power most of the freedoms we had enjoyed were reduced or eliminated, but this one was left almost untouched.
