Grandpa doesn't care

You can not only glorify Stalin at metro stations, but also write bad things about him in the newspaper, even if this offends his relatives - this is what the Basmanny Court of Moscow decided on October 13, not satisfying the claim of the grandson of Generalissimo Evgeniy Dzhugashvili against Novaya Gazeta.

Stalin’s grandson went to court in connection with Anatoly Yablokov’s article “Beria is Appointed Guilty” in the special issue “The Truth of the Gulag,” where he saw an infringement of the honor and dignity of Joseph Vissarionovich. First of all, Evgeniy Dzhugashvili was outraged by the phrase: “Stalin and the Chekists are tied with great blood, grave crimes, primarily against their own people.” He demanded that the newspaper publish a refutation, and also pay him 10 million rubles as compensation for moral damage and moral suffering. Yablokov's article states that Stalin was involved in the execution of 22 thousand Polish citizens in Katyn.

One of the defendants’ lawyers, Henry Reznik, explained that everything published in the contested article had long been made public and that Stalin’s crimes were named back in 1962. Evgeniy Dzhugashvili may appeal the verdict.