State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin has called for the memory of the USSR General Secretary Joseph Stalin to be perpetuated. He stated that Stalin, as the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, made a decisive contribution to the victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Volodin also emphasized that after World War II, many European cities celebrated Stalin's contribution to the victory by naming streets, boulevards, and metro stations in his honor. However, according to him, today in Europe there is a "belittling of the merits" of the victors of fascism. As an example, he cited the renaming of Stalingrad Boulevard in France.

Earlier, Volodin mentioned the possibility of returning the name Stalingrad to Volgograd, but noted the obstacles associated with the decisions of the 20th Congress of the CPSU, which condemned the personality cult of the dictator.

In 1944, Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin ordered the deportation of Chechens and Ingush from the North Caucasus to Central Asia and Siberia. This act was recognized as genocide by many countries and the European Parliament. Half a million people were forced to leave their homes. The number of victims during the deportation exceeded a third of the total number of peoples. The Soviet government confiscated the houses, land and all property of the resettlers.

In addition to the Chechens and Ingush, Karachays, Balkars, Crimean Tatars, Bashkirs, Koreans, Kalmyks, Germans, Ingrian Finns, Meskhetian Turks - more than a dozen ethnic groups in total - were subjected to total forced resettlement to the USSR.

In 2024, residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic and Ingushetia asked the authorities not to glorify the figures responsible for Stalin's deportations. They are concerned about the growing number of Stalin busts and monuments in his honor. There are currently more than 110 of them in the Russian Federation.