[Reader-list] Interview with Jacob Jugashvili, great grandson of Jospeh Stalin

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Jacob Jugashvili, artist-activist from Georgia is the son of Yevgeni
Jugashvili, military historian and retired colonel of the Soviet Army and
the great grandson of Ioseb Jugashvili, one of the most influencial persons
in world history, popularly known as Joseph Stalin.
Jacob’s father has gained note as a defender of his Stalin’s reputation,
and in the 1999 elections of the Russian State Duma, he was one of the
faces of the Stalin Bloc — For the USSR, a league of Communist parties.
Jacob studied painting at Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts and Glasgow
School of Art. Jacob has showed at various London venues: the Boundary
Gallery, Lamont Gallery, Royal College of Art, London Art Fair, Georgia
2000 exhibition at Cork streets Gallery 27. His works were also shown at
Batumi Art Museum (Batumi, Georgia).
Today his artistic life is goes in parallel with his political life and
activism as part of a public movement called IGPR (Iniciativnaia Gruppa Po
Provedeniu Referenduma) former Army of the Will of the People.
Jugashvili lives in Georgia and Russia with his wife and daughter.
Jacob Jugashvili shares his views with us here.
http://malayalanatu.com/index.php/component/k2/item/327-power-is-unfair