Agreed.

Even the Soviet government, before the breakup of the USSR, admitted to 3.1 million deaths as a result of Stalin's regime... with the new information that came out after the breakup and the opening of the Societ archives, that number rises to more than 7 million. Then you can add the famines that resulted from the forced collectivization of the kulak farms, and you add another 10 million over those ten years... and the numbers begin to become staggering in size and scope. 800,000 political executions between the years of 1936 and 1938 alone... just executons within the Party itself! Some numbers take the totals to as high as 60 million over his entire reign.

This is NOT the sort of "bust" one puts next to the defenders of democracy and freedom, because he wasn't fighting to defend democracy and freedom, he was fighting against a common enemy (through no effort or intention of his own, either)... nothing more. None of the other busts on display at this memorial are of leaders that signed non-aggression and joint defense agreements with the Nazi's either, or partnered with Hitler in the invasion, conquest and division of an entire sovereign nation (Poland).

I simply can't imagine that this bust will remain where it is now for very much longer. Every veteran association or military service organization in existence will be calling for its removal from the memorial within the week, and the memorial association will have to take it down. They work on a donation and support basis... so bad press is death for them.