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The small town of Bedford, Va., is home to 21 men who sacrificed their lives on D-Day, June 6, 1944. It is now also the home of one of the world's few public memorial busts of communist dictator Josef Stalin.
Local citizens and organizations have expressed their outrage over the installation of the bust at the National D-Day Memorial, which honored the 66th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy over the weekend. The bust of the Soviet Union's wartime leader was unveiled last week to accompany existing busts of U.S. Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman as well as British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
"This is not a WWII memorial," Mr. Edwards said. "This is a D-Day memorial. If we focus on the fact of it being a D-Day memorial, then there is hardly any justification whatsoever" for Stalin being there.
Mr. Altau described Stalin's presence as a "sore thumb" that gives undue honor to a dictator.
Stalin bust has Virginia town red-faced - Washington Times