The Kremlin has increasingly embraced the Soviet dictator and his legacy, using them to exalt Russian history in a time of war, but he remains a deeply divisive figure in Russia. By Ivan Nechepurenko ...
Mr. Svanidze — who is related to Stalin through both his parents and has known his “Uncle Sosso” since infancy — was a Soviet official in Vienna when he took refuge in the West to marry a Hungarian ...