MOSCOW (Reuters) - Josef Stalin was in the dock on Monday when a Russian court held a preliminary hearing in a libel case brought by his grandson over a newspaper story which said the tyrant had ordered the killings of Soviet citizens. A worker washes a sculpture of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin at the National Art Gallery in Sofia June 23, 2009. (REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov/Files) Rights groups say the case shows a creeping attempt in modern Russia to paint a more benevolent picture of the Soviet Union's most feared leader, under whose...
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