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Medvedev Blasts Stalin Repressions as ‘War Against Nation’

Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders of that time deserve the harshest appraisal for “waging war against their own nation,” Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday.

Speaking on the Day Commemorating the Victims of Political Repression, which Russia marks on October 30, Medvedev said: “This [Stalin-era repression] must stay in the annals of our history and never happen again. The war against one’s own nation is the gravest crime.”

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