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Protesters in Georgia demand punishment for woman accused of defacing Stalin icon
A side panel of the icon includes a depiction of the Georgian-born Stalin - an avowed atheist ... who has been named in Georgia media, to be subject to a criminal investigation and be potentially ...
CNN24d
As Georgia votes, fears of a stolen election and a return to the Kremlin’s orbit loom large
At the Joseph Stalin Museum in Gori ... it espoused when it took office 12 years ago and effectively torpedoed Georgia’s bid to join the European Union. Its founder, the secretive oligarch ...
The Irish Times23d
‘For them, the Soviet past is something to protect’: History a political battleground in Stalin’s homeland
There are even attempts in Russia and Georgia to align Stalin – an atheist and prolific persecutor of believers – with the Orthodox Church, and he briefly appeared on an icon in a Tbilisi ...