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Saturday, September 01, 2012

Russia's Putin calls for Stalin-style "leap forward"

Russia's Putin calls for Stalin-style "leap forward"
Russia needs a "leap forward" to rejuvenate its sprawling defence industry, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, harkening back to the ambitious industrialisation carried out by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in the runup to World War Two. "We should carry out the same powerful, all-embracing leap forward in modernisation of the defence industry as the one carried out in the 1930s," Putin told his Security Council, without mentioning Stalin by name.  

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