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Andrei Posted 21 years ago
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Rehabilitation of Stalin

0 The 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe is being marked not just with commemorations - in Russia there are moves to rehabilitate Stalin and in Germany a debate has developed about how far Germans were victims as well as perpetrators. 02br
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00Two generations after the war, reputations are being re-evaluated, memories are being re-assessed and history is being re-written. 02br
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00It was on 15 April 1945 that the Red Army launched its assault on Berlin. Germany signed its final surrender on 7 May. 02br
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00The council in the western Russian city of Oryol, which itself suffered badly during the war, has called for Stalin's name to be restored to streets and for monuments and statues to him to be re-erected 02br
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00Stalin died in 1953. How on earth one could rehabiltate him? The above mentions about moves to rehabilitate Stalin. What is the meaning of it? 0230hrefhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4461275.stm
  

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0 They are not speaking in a physical sense, Andrei, because as yo say, he is dead and therefore can't be reinstated to his former position. 02br 02br 00Rehabilitate also means 'to restore someone's reputation', and that is the sense in which it is being used here. 0-

  • 0 They are not speaking in a physical sense, Andrei, because as yo say, he is dead and therefore can't be reinstated to his former position.
  • 02br 02br 00Rehabilitate also means 'to restore someone's reputation', and that is the sense in which it is being used here.
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0 They are not speaking in a physical sense, Andrei, because as yo say, he is dead and therefore can't be reinstated to his former position. 02br
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00Rehabilitate also means 'to restore someone's reputation', and that is the sense in which it is being used here. 0-

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