Russian city's decision to be renamed Stalingrad widely criticized

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[Anton Orekh] believes that a clear official position should be that [Iosif Stalin] was "a criminal and a hangman" and his actions were "crimes against humanity and genocide against the peoples of the Soviet Union".

"In this case, the attitude towards Stalin was expressed in 1961, when Stalingrad was renamed Volgograd. To rename again, even temporarily, this wonderful Russian city after a bloody tyrant who murdered millions of his own citizens and who caused irreparable damage to the nation's gene pool is a blasphemy," Levichev said, as quoted by the party's press service.