Posters of Joseph Stalin will be put up...

Moscow City Hall revealed plans on February 17 to set up billboards in commemoration of Stalin"s role in WWII in the run-up to this year"s 65th Victory Day Parade on May 9.

Vladimir Makarov, the head of Moscow"s advertising and design committee, said billboards focusing exclusively on Stalin"s wartime achievements would only be placed at 10 sites across the city, including the Poklonnaya Memorial Park, and in front of the Bolshoi Theater.

The plans stirred controversy among Muscovites and provoked anger from human rights activists, but won the sympathy of war veterans.

"The falsifiers are deliberately crossing the line in order to strain the situation further. The Moscow war veterans condemn the mass purges but think highly of the general results achieved under Stalin"s rule," Vladimir Dolgykh, the head of the Moscow War Veterans Organization, said.

"History will put everything into place," Dolgykh said, adding that excluding Stalin"s name from the Tehran

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