Russia President Medvedev Slams Stalin Supporters
World | October 31, 2009, Saturday
Millions of Soviet citizens died under Stalin's rule and Medvedev said it was not possible to justify those who exterminated their own people. Photo by telegraph.co.uk
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has made an outspoken attack on those seeking to rehabilitate former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Millions of Soviet citizens died under Stalin's rule and Medvedev said it was not possible to justify those who exterminated their own people.
He also warned against efforts to falsify history and defend repression.
Some Russian politicians have recently tried to portray Stalin in a more positive light, the BBC reported.
Under President Medvedev's predecessor, current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Stalin was often promoted as an efficient leader who turned the Soviet Union into a superpower.
Medvedev made the unusually critical comments in a videoblog posted on the Kremlin's website.
It appeared on the day the country is supposed to honour millions of people killed under Stalin's brutal regime which lasted from the late 1920s until his death in 1953.
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