A statue of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin being dismantled at his home town of Gori, 80 kilometres west of the Georgian capital Tbilisi, yesterday. Authorities in Georgia have torn down the monument to make way for a memorial to the fallen in the Russian-Georgian war of 2008.

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