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Members of the Russian Communist party hold a rally in Moscow on December 5, 2008 to commemorate that date the Soviet or "Stalin" constitution of the Soviet Union, drafted by leader Josef Stalin, was adopted in 1936. Photo by DMITRY KOSTYUKOV/AFP via Getty Images

By Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project Syndicate

Russia’s communist party recently asserted that, in Stalin’s “deeds and works,” Russians can seek “answers to the fateful challenges of our time.” But Vladimir Putin has been rehabilitating Stalin for more than two decades – and reviving some of the worst elements of the Soviet era in the process.

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