Russian human rights organizations criticized the decision to set up a monument for Soviet-era leader Josef Stalin in North Ossetia.What's next? Statues of Pol Pot in Cambodia and Hitler in Germany?
"This may only be regretted. It's good the monument will not appear in Moscow," Human Rights Movement leader Lev Ponomaryov told Interfax on Wednesday.
"Stalin is one of the bloodiest dictators. Most people remember him as an embodiment of the peak of communist terror. Stalin was exterminating his own people," Ponomaryov said . . . .
It is not the first statue of "the Father of the Nations" to have appeared in Russia in 2005. Stalin's bas-relief was restored in Kaliningrad and busts of Stalin were set up in Krasnoyarsk and in Yakutia's Mirny.
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