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Stalin’s Legend Fades Twenty Years After His Death
Moscow correspondent Henry Shapiro recounts how Stalin’s aura has eroded since 1953. He recalls public weeping at Stalin’s death, Khrushchev’s 1956 denouncement, and the removal of Stalin’s body from the Lenin Mausoleum. Only a few statues remain, mostly in China and Albania, while in the Soviet Union Stalin is largely forgotten or condemned.
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Henry Shapiro
United Press International
Moscow
Joseph V. Stalin
Stalin
UPI
Soviet Union
Peking
Gori
Trans-Caucasus
China
Albania
Marx
Engels
Lenin
Mao
Communist Party
Khrushchev
Peter the Great
Ivan the Terrible