Russian city inaugurates statue to bloody Ivan the Terrible

Sunday, October 16, 2016

OREL, Russia -- Despite protests and court battles, the Russian city of Orel has unveiled the country's first monument to Ivan the Terrible, the bloody 16th-century czar who massacred his subjects by the thousands and reportedly even killed his own son.

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