Brno politicians want Stalin image removed from cemetery

Councillors in Brno are keen to remove an image of Stalin from the city’s Central Cemetery, the news site iRozhlas.cz reported on Thursday. The Soviet leader’s face is depicted in a protected part of the cemetery where the remains of WWII Red Army soldiers are interred.

City officials and cemetery administrators were tasked on Wednesday with finding a way of dealing with the matter. One possibility would be to remove the image of Stalin during a planned renovation of that section of the cemetery, iRozhlas.cz said.