Photos: 60 years since Josef Stalin’s death
March 5, 2013
Russian Communists and their supporters are seen through a transparent portrait of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin as they lay flowers at his tomb at the Red Square in Moscow on March 5, 2013 to mark the 60th anniversary of Stalin's death. Russia marks today 60 years since the death of Stalin with attitudes split about whether to view him as a tyrant who slaughtered millions or a national savior who helped turn the country into a global superpower that emerged victorious in World War II. KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images
People carry red flags and a portrait of the late Soviet leader Josef Stalin during a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of his death in his hometown of Gori, about 50 miles west of Georgia's capital on March 5, 2013. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
People carry flowers and red flags in front of a statue of the late Soviet leader Josef Stalin during a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of Stalin's death in his hometown of Gori, about 50 miles west of Georgia's capital on March 5, 2013. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
April 1932: Joseph Stalin, Soviet Communist leader from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin was appointed General Secretary of the party's Central Committee in 1922. He subsequently managed to consolidate power following the 1924 death of Vladimir Lenin through expanding the functions of his role, all the while eliminating any opposition. He held this nominal post until abolishing it in 1952, concurrently serving as the Premier of the Soviet Union after establishing the position in 1941. (Photo by James Abbe/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)
A card from the register of the St Petersburg imperial police on Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Russian communists and their supporters carry a portrait of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin as they lay flowers at his tomb at the Red Square in Moscow on March 5, 2013. Russia marks today 60 years since the death of Stalin with attitudes split about whether to view him as a tyrant who slaughtered millions or a national savior who helped turn the country into a global superpower that emerged victorious in World War II. ANDREY SMIRNOV/AFP/Getty Images
Russian Communists and their supporters lay flowers at the tomb of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin to mark the 60th anniversary of his death at the Red Square in Moscow on March 5, 2013. KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's bust at his tomb and the Kremlin's Spasskaya (Savior) Tower are silhouetted against the sky at the Red Square in Moscow on March 5, 2013. Russia marks today 60 years since the death of Stalin with attitudes split about whether to view him as a tyrant who slaughtered millions or a national savior who helped turn the country into a global superpower that emerged victorious in World War II. KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images
People pass by a kiosk, with a photograph of the late Soviet leader Josef Stalin on the front page of a newspaper seen in the foreground, on the day of the 60th anniversary of Stalin's death in St. Petersburg on March 5, 2013. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk
A man holds a portrait of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin inside a church in Stalin's native town of Gori, some 50 miles from the capital on March 5, 2013, during ceremonies to mark the 60th anniversary of Stalin's death. VANO SHLAMOV/AFP/Getty Images
Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference in February of 1945. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
8th February 1945: Marshal Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill together at the Livedia Palace in Yalta, where they were both present for the conference. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)
Communist leaders including Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky seen saluting in the street during the Russian Revolution. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
May 1952: Russian communist leaders led by Joseph Stalin saluting the May Day Parade in Red Square, Moscow. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, circa 1930. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin, right, with Soviet leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in Gorky. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
A vendor stands at the entrance of his antique shop offering portraits of Joseph Stalin on February 18, 2013 in central Tbilisi some 50 miles from Stalin's hometown. VANO SHLAMOV/AFP/Getty Images
Flowers are left in front of the house where the late Soviet leader Josef Stalin was born, on the 60th anniversary of Stalin's death, in his hometown of Gori, about 50 miles west of Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, on March 5, 2013. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
Georgians carry a portrait of former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and red flags during a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of Stalin's death in his home town of Gori, 50 miles west of the Georgian capital Tbilisi, on Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Georgian communists, who flocked to Stalin's hometown of Gori for the anniversary, hope that the government of Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, whose bloc defeated Saakashvili's party in parliamentary elections last fall, will restore the Stalin monument torn down on Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili's orders. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)
Members of Russia's Federal Security Service place stands for wreaths at the grave of the late Soviet leader Josef Stalin before a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of his death in Red Square in central Moscow on March 5, 2013. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
People walk by a bus adorned with a portrait of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and a sign reading "Stalingrad gets back its victorious name" in St. Petersburg, Russia on Feb. 2, 2013. An opinion survey commissioned by the Carnegie Endowment has revealed that Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has remained widely admired in Russia and other ex-Soviet nations despite his repressions that killed millions of people. It has found that support for Stalin in Russia has actually increased since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Elena Ignatyeva)
Communist supporters carry a portrait of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin as they line up to place flowers on Stalin's grave in Red Square, outside the Kremlin wall to mark the 60th anniversary of his death, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Stalin led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. Communists credit him with leading the country to victory in World War II while others condemn the brutal purges that killed millions. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Categories: News, Syndicated
Tags: photo