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Profile portrait of Stalin as a young Bolshevik after his arrest in the Stalin museum in Gori, Georgia.<\/p><\/div>\n

Gori, Georgia-<\/strong>\u00a0 This photo hangs in a museum that has not been updated since it opened thirty years ago at the twilight of the Brezhnev era. It is the B-side to the photo on the cover of Simon Sebag Montefiore\u2019s\u00a0Young Stalin<\/a>. There has been a rather sizable reported uptick in revisionist pro-Stalin sentiment in Russia as of late and the\u00a0BBC is reporting<\/a>\u00a0that this may create a small crack in Moscow\u2019s otherwise unrepentant leadership.<\/p>\n

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Does it get much more twisted kitsch than this? Stalin having a smoke and chilling with Mao.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gori, Georgia-\u00a0 This photo hangs in a museum that has not been updated since it opened thirty years ago at the twilight of the Brezhnev era. It is the B-side to the photo on the cover of Simon Sebag Montefiore\u2019s\u00a0Young…<\/p>\n

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