Current Affairs Stalin survives village poll

14-05-2008 16:01 | Jan Richter

The inhabitants of Studenec, a small Moravian village near Brno, have voted to keep a bronze relief depicting Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on their community’s monument to the victims of the First and Second World Wars. Just over a half of the village’s adult inhabitants turned up to cast their ballots in the local referendum, while a majority of them said they wanted to keep the controversial portrait in its place.

A bronze relief depicting Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on the monumet in Studenec A bronze relief depicting Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on the monumet in Studenec   Back

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