For a nation trying to shed its totalitarian past, this is a treacherous slide in the wrong direction.

"It is a sad consequence of our totalitarian past," he told the agency.

"I favored an entertainment complex for youth, or even a museum to the totalitarian past."

History will judge him by how well he helps Russia move from its totalitarian past to a democratic future.

Judging from this list, Russia is recoiling into its totalitarian past.

"Russian democracy is young and too dependent on the recent totalitarian past," the appeal said.

But they respect them for their economic achievements since the war and for their efforts to overcome a totalitarian past.

The platform will co-ordinate the study of the totalitarian past on the European level.

There are lessons to be learnt from our totalitarian past.

A democratic country's future should not be controlled by its totalitarian past.