You are listening to John Sweeney on From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4. The programme was broadcast on Saturday, 28 November, 2009.
Read more despatches at the From Our Own Correspondent website.
John Sweeney's report for This World on the 'rehabilitation' of Stalin will be broadcast on Wednesday, 2 December, at 1900 GMT on BBC Two.
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