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Today Doug and Nouran are talking about posters.

Posters of the former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin are now fashionable, especially among students.

There are also mugs and T-shirts with pictures of Stalin and other dictators on them.

Why is this?

Journalist Laurence Rees suggests that people in Europe and America, countries which were allies of the USSR in the Second World War, still believe the positive image and positive propaganda Stalin had at the time.

He says people choose to overlook his crimes against humanity.

Students in London told us that there was an interest in icons although people don't really know what they represent.

One student said people who put Stalin's image on clothes and pictures were just showing ignorance; they see symbols from the past as being cool.

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posters
ملصق

allies
حلفاء

positive propoganda
دعاية لإعطاء صورة إيجابية

crimes against humanity
جرائم ضد الإنسانية

icons
إيقونة/ رمز

ignorance
جهل

cool
جذاب

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