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People walk underneath a Soviet-era slogan reading, "Stalin raised us to be loyal to the nation, inspired us to labour and great deeds," inside a freshly-refurbished metro station in Moscow on August 27, 2009. Russian liberals voiced outrage at a "scandalous" restoration in which an inscription praising Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was returned to a Moscow metro station. AFP PHOTO / DMITRY KOSTYUKOV
RUSSIA-POLITICS-HISTORY-ARCHITECTURE-STALIN
People walk underneath a Soviet-era slogan reading, "Stalin raised us to be loyal to the nation, inspired us to labour and great deeds," inside a freshly-refurbished metro station in Moscow on August 27, 2009. Russian liberals voiced outrage at a "scandalous" restoration in which an inscription praising Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was returned to a Moscow metro station. AFP PHOTO / DMITRY KOSTYUKOV