Putin’s mad push to revive Soviet Union with Stalin statues & Red Army cosplay – as aide insists USSR ‘NEVER broke up’

The return of symbols of Stalinism to Moscow is spitting in the face of history and an act of mockery against the descendants of the repressed,

Yabloko said in a statement

This man (Stalin), he created a lot,

said Yevgeny Ivanov, a Moscow resident, who had come to look at the new monument on Wednesday

It is the same self-isolation, it is the same conservative ideology and reliance on our own strength,

he said

Yan Rachinskyrussian public figure, ethnographer and human rights activist

For the current government, the main thing is the state. The state is sacred, the state is above everything, the state is infallible,

said Yan Rachinsky, a human rights activist who works to expose Stalin's crimes at the Moscow branch of Memorial

We should remember and honour some of his deeds, ... But to put him like this is disrespectful. He did a lot of bad things for the Soviet people."

believes Oleg

Yan Rachinskyrussian public figure, ethnographer and human rights activist

Putin's old statement that one should be proud of history - that's it,

says Mr Rachinsky

Yan Rachinskyrussian public figure, ethnographer and human rights activist

The trend comes down to the idea of ​the greatness of the state,

says Yan Rachinsky, a human rights activist who works to expose Stalin's crimes at the Moscow branch of Memorial, a renowned rights group that now operates on a local level after the closure of its international arm