{"id":549,"date":"2011-10-30T12:57:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T12:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/?p=549"},"modified":"2011-10-30T12:57:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T12:57:12","slug":"russian-state-controlled-media-must-stop-whitewashing-stalins-image-russian-human-rights-activists-and-historians-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2011\/10\/30\/russian-state-controlled-media-must-stop-whitewashing-stalins-image-russian-human-rights-activists-and-historians-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Russian state-controlled media must stop whitewashing Stalin&#8217;s image&#8221; &#8211; Russian human rights activists and historians claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2011\/10\/Russian-Communists-hold-a-portrait-of-Stalin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-551\" src=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2011\/10\/Russian-Communists-hold-a-portrait-of-Stalin-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/russian-activists-historians-accuse-state-controlled-media-of-whitewashing-stalins-image\/2011\/10\/26\/gIQAMhQtIM_story.html\">This<\/a>\u00a0article from Wednesday&#8217;s Washington Post reflects the reality that Joseph Stalin remains a very controversial figure in modern day Russia. It is noteworthy that he was voted the third greatest Russian of all time on a television programme in 2008. For others, often relatives of his victims,\u00a0he is a hate figure.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most significant in this American article is the suggestion \u00a0that <em>&#8220;his opponents have accused the government of burnishing Stalin\u2019s image as part of its efforts to justify its own retreat from democracy&#8221;. <\/em>Read the article and see how far you agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0article from Wednesday&#8217;s Washington Post reflects the reality that Joseph Stalin remains a very controversial figure in modern day Russia. It is noteworthy that he was voted the third greatest Russian of all time on a television programme in 2008. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2011\/10\/30\/russian-state-controlled-media-must-stop-whitewashing-stalins-image-russian-human-rights-activists-and-historians-claim\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}