Stalin’s grandson loses libel claim
14 Oct 2009Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, the grandson of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, has lost a libel case against newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
Dzhugashvili alleged that an article describing his late grandfather as a “bloodthirsty cannibal” defamed Stalin’s “honour and dignity”.
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