Rosenberg: What a new Stalin statue says about Russia's attempt to reshape history

A brand new statue of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been unveiled at a Metro station in Moscow.

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Meanwhile, an adviser to President Putin recently argued that the Soviet Union in fact still exists, because of a procedural error in the process of dissolving it.

More than three years on from Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the BBC's Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg considers how Russia is trying to reshape its past to justify the present.

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