Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree giving the Volgograd airport the historic name of Stalingrad, evoking the Soviet victory over Nazi forces. The decree underlines the importance of perpetuating the memory of the Great Patriotic War. Putin has also compared the invasion of Ukraine to the fight against Nazism, while Ukraine rejects these parallels. The renaming reflects a rehabilitation of Stalin under Putin's leadership, in contrast to the distancing from his era in the post-Soviet period.
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Putin a redat printr-un decret numele vechi de Stalingrad aeroportului din Volgograd / Regimul criminal al dictatorului Iosif Stalin este responsabil de moartea a milioane de cetățeni ai URSS
Putin reînvie numele lui Stalin. Cum a redenumit un aeroport
Aeroportul din oraşul Volgograd redenumit Stalingrad de Putin
Rusia va avea un nou Stalingrad
Vladimir Putin semnează un decret prin care schimbă numele aeroportului Volgograd înapoi în Stalingrad
Vladimir Putin a ordonat schimbarea numelui aeroportului din Volgograd în Stalingrad
Vladimir Putin redă prin decret numele vechi de Stalingrad aeroportului din Volgograd
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