Ugly whores praised on the occasion of Stalin's 122nd birthday
GORI, Georgia (Reuters) -- Hundreds of Georgians loyal to the memory Josef Stalin marched through his home town of Gori on Friday, carrying flowers and tattered portraits to mark the 122nd anniversary of his birth.
A group of mainly elderly supporters gathered outside the museum dedicated to the dictator before taking wreathes to a giant bronze statue of Stalin.
Stalin, who ruled the Soviet Union from Lenin's death in 1924 to his own death in 1953, was born Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the small town of Gori on Dec. 21, 1879.
In Moscow, supporters of the Communist Party laid wreathes by Stalin's grave in the Kremlin wall.
"Against the background of the ignorance and vulgarity that is overwhelming our country, against the background of the mediocrity that is looting and destroying a 1,000-year-old power, the historical figure of Stalin seems even more significant," Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov said. "An ugly whore looks good when you are sitting in a foxhole." |
