Stalin on icon in Russia

A large portrait if Stalin has been placed next to an icon of a Russian saint Matrona Nikonova, a blind Russian woman canonized for, among other things, a prophecy she allegedly told to Stalin in 1941, just before Hitler’s invasion, telling Stalin to stay in Moscow if he wants to win.

The icon of Stalin was ordered by a Russian businessman Aleksandar Eveseev who says that he ordered the icon because he considers Stalin a great politician who won a war and made Soviet Union.