A monument to Stalin was unveiled on the territory of the Mikron plant in the Pskov region. This is not the first monument to Stalin unveiled in 2023. On February 1, a monument to the leader appeared in Volgograd. The opening of such monuments is not without collisions: the Volgograd monument was erected 120 meters from the memorial to the victims of political repression.

And at the opening of the monument in the Pskov region, a fiery speech about the "God-given" leader was made by actress Maria Shukshina, whose grandfather was shot in 1933. This is not the first time in sixty years that the state's position on Joseph Stalin's policies has changed. The de-Stalinization of 1956-1963 led to the almost universal dismantling of monuments to the generalissimo. Since 1970, not a single monument to Stalin has been officially erected on the territory of modern Russia.

The rehabilitation of Stalinism began in 2005. On May 8, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, a monument to Stalin appeared in the city of Mirny in Yakutia. From that moment on, new monuments began to appear in Russia for Victory Day or Stalin's birthday. Over the past twenty years, more than a hundred of them have been installed in Russia. In the central regions of Russia, monuments and museums to the leader are opened, as a rule, on the initiative of local branches of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

For example, in the summer of 2023, the head of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Alexei Zorov, promised to build a three-story "Stalin Center" in the city of Bor. In the South of Russia, the erection of monuments is more often initiated by local residents, mainly veterans of the Second World War. Interestingly, not only new memorials to the leader are appearing in Dagestan, but also busts of Stalin of the 1930s are getting a second life. For example, in Khunzakh, a fragment of a monument to Stalin was used as material for the construction of a house.