In the center of Moscow opened an Avenue of rulers, one of the exhibits which was a bust of Joseph Stalin, according to Life.
The sculpture was placed on the next September 22, the Avenue of the governors, organized by the Russian military-historical society.
Also there appeared busts of Nicholas II, Vladimir Lenin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin.
Earlier at the Avenue of the rulers has already been installed sculptures by Russian princes and tsars, including Ivan the terrible.
“Moskovsky Komsomolets” wrote that the installation of the bust of Stalin criticized the human rights activist Lev Ponomarev. In his words, “too many people died in those years,” when Stalin was in power, “and too many of their relatives are still alive”. Member of the Board of “memorial” Jan Raczynski noted that “history was not more bloody ruler against his own people” than Stalin.
The installation of the sculpture was supported by the Communist party. The head of the Communist party faction in the Moscow city Duma Andrey Klychkov said that the “latest polls show” a positive evaluation of a half of Muscovites of the role of Stalin in the great Patriotic war and the establishment of the state. Therefore, according to him, “we need to respect” the decision to install the bust.
In September of this year “Levada-the centre” has told about a survey which showed that about 40 percent of Russians support the installation of monuments to Stalin.
One of the latest scandals associated with the installation of monuments to Stalin, happened in the Moscow state law University named after Kutafin. There appeared a memorial plaque to Soviet Generalissimo. Because of this, professors of the Higher school of Economics refused to work with the University, and the lawyer Henry Reznik has left the professors.