Last updated: 9 april, 2010 - 16:13 GMT
Stalin billboards to be displayed by Moscow Mayor on Victory Day
Every 9 May in Moscow, columns of marching soldiers, tanks, missile carriers and fighter jets mark the Russian victory over Nazi Germany.
This year, the Mayor of Moscow, Yury Luzhkov, wants to have giant billboards of Josef Stalin posted around the city.
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Politicians of the governing party, human rights activists and anarchists are all unhappy about it.
Some people in Moscow give their opinions of the plan:
Masha Lipman is a political analyst from the Carnegie Institute in Moscow.
Does she think the Mayor is intent on creating a big argument?
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First broadcast 9 April 2010
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