400. Stalin: A Poisonous Legacy (Part 6)
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We've watched a bullied pockmarked boy become a bank robber, then a bureaucrat, then the master of a sixth of the earth. We've counted the dead in the terror and the famine and the war. in the millions, and we have asked all the way through this a question that is not really about the past at all, but about the present. Why is a man in the Kremlin 70 years after Stalin died so determined to put him back on the plinth? This isn't just a series about a dead dictator.
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