TBILISI, DFWatch–A bust of Stalin was paint-bombed pink and later dismantled in the village Ateni in Gori, the hometown of Joseph Stalin, on Monday.
The bust of Stalin was erected for the 71th anniversary of victory over fascism, on May 9. It was dismantled
TBILISI, DFWatch–A lecturer at the University of Gori, a town 80km west of the capital, claims that she was fired because of her anti-Stalinist opinions.
Arina Tavakarashvili wrote on her Facebook page that the canceling of her lectures was related to the issue
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Constitutional Court in Georgia has decided that a controversial provision barring former senior Soviet officials and Communist Party members from holding post in state institutions is unconstitutional.
The court on Tuesday announced the ruling,
TBILISI, DFWatch–A member of parliament from the ruling Georgian Dream coalition Monday evening openly praised Joseph Stalin and called him ‘the greatest Georgian’ of the 20th century.
Gogi Topadze, leader of the Industrialists Party, met Giorgi Kandelaki,
TBILISI, DFWatch–The city assembly in Joseph Stalin’s hometown Gori on Friday voted against the idea of re-erecting a six-meter high statue of the dictator.
The statue was unveiled in 1952 on the central square in Gori. After the end of the Soviet Union
TBILISI, DFWatch–Locals in a village in Georgia’s eastern Kakheti region installed a bust of Joseph Stalin on Victory Day, May 9.
This was the third time someone put up a bust of the dictator in Akura since Victory Day, May 9, 2012.
On the previous two occasions
TBILISI, DFWatch–A bust of Stalin was Tuesday dismantled in a small village in Georgia, less than a day after it was put up.
It is still unknown who placed the monument in Akura, in the eastern part of the country, but the same bust has been erected several times in two
TBILISI, DFWatch–A bust of Joseph Stalin was re-erected in a Georgian village Monday night. It is unknown who put it there.
The reemerged bust is located in Akura, a village in Eastern Georgia.
After the change of government in Georgia in late 2012, busts and
TBILISI, DFWatch–A bust of Joseph Stalin was Friday erected and taken down again the same day in the Soviet dictator’s hometown Gori, close to the Georgian capital.
The bust was brought there by car and installed by members of a group called Eurasian Institute,
TBILISI, DFWatch–A Stalin monument in Telavi, Georgia, has been dismantled.
The same day as it was installed in September, 2013, the statue was paint bombed by unknown persons, who also painted other Stalin monuments in other Georgian villages, erected after the change