Name: What a new Stalin statue says about Russia's attempt to reshape history | BBC News
Uploaded: 2025-05-30T07:06:24+00:00
Duration: 5 min 30 s
Description: A brand new statue of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been unveiled at a Metro station in Moscow. Meanwhile, an adviser to Russia’s President Putin recently argued that the Soviet Union in fact s

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News What a new Stalin statue says about Russia's attempt to reshape history | BBC News A brand new statue of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been unveiled at a Metro station in Moscow. Meanwhile an adviser to Russia’s President Putin recently argued that the Soviet Union in fact still exists because of a procedural error in the process of dissolving it. More than three years on from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine the BBC’s Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg considers how Russia is trying to reshape its past to justify the present.

A brand new statue of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been unveiled at a Metro station in Moscow.

Meanwhile, an adviser to Russia’s President Putin recently argued that the Soviet Union in fact still exists, because of a procedural error in the process of dissolving it.

More than three years on from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the BBC’s Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg considers how Russia is trying to reshape its past to justify the present.

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