Stalin
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The work in the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi depicts St Matrona of Moscow, a visionary and healer, blessing the Soviet dictator
Boris Iofan, a Jewish architect born in Odesa—whose buildings included the Communist behemoth the “House on the Embankment”—built what the dictator demanded, creating architecture as an instrument of power
Sikorski says that it would be better to have a park in its place
The controversial image was removed after protests from local community, many of whom were Ukrainian
An exhibition at the Hayward Gallery examines the close links between the art produced in Europe under the great dictators, 1930-45