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Upon Joseph Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953, Russians share their reaction to his death. Former dissidents such as Lev Kopelev even wept for the corrupt dictator who ruled Russia for over three decades: “It wasn’t the real Stalin that we…that I and others like me mourned in those days. It was the Stalin myth, the Stalin fairytale.” Former bureaucrats describe Stalin’s vicious approach to executing mass numbers of people during his rule and his dictatorial strategies to create his propaganda image.

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Russians Mourn the Death of Stalin the Myth Not the Man appeared first on Witnify.

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Svetlana Alliuyeva, the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, addresses the press concerning her 1967 immigration to the United States. Svetlana, who changed her named to Lana Peters after moving to America, sparked international scandal with her defection from the Soviet Union becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States and voicing her dissent against her homeland’s ruling powers.

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Daughter of Stalin Speaks After Defection to U.S. appeared first on Witnify.