Vladimir Putin once confessed to the American filmmaker Oliver Stone that “Stalin was a product of his time. In 2013, the Parliament of Volgograd imposed a new tradition of changing the city’s name for 24 hours every February 2, the day of the defeat of Nazi Germany’s Sixth Army in Stalingrad, although the initiative did not quite crystallize into a tradition since it was not embraced every year, as in 2017. At its entrance, three busts of Stalin (as supreme commander of the USSR armed forces) and of the marshals Gueorgi Zhúkov and Aleksandr Vasilevski, responsible for the first great Soviet victory, were inaugurated on Wednesday