“In Russia, monuments to people responsible for mass killings and other Soviet-era crimes are springing up like mushrooms after an autumn rain,” Jaroslaw Kuisz recently wrote.

As statues commemorating figures from Joseph Stalin to the founder of the Bolshevik secret police are erected across the country, many Russians have responded with little more than a shrug. One person told a BBC reporter that Stalin is “unfairly hated”; another said that “Stalin is our history,” adding that “nobody’s perfect.”

“In Russia, monuments to people responsible for mass killings and other Soviet-era crimes are springing up like mushrooms after an autumn rain,” Jaroslaw Kuisz recently

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