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From CBC News: bq. Manitoba pulls wines with Stalin labels The Manitoba liquor board's decision to stop selling wine with labels depicting former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin is drawing applause from the Ukrainian community. bq. The Manitoba Liquor Control Commission this week stopped sales of two Ukrainian wines – a nine-year-old port and a sherry – after receiving complaints about the labels. bq. "No mass murderer's mug should grace a wine label," Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association said in a statement. bq. "This is very good news, and we commend the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission for acting promptly and removing these offensively labelled wines from their shelves." bq. The labels show a photograph of Stalin, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Yalta Conference during the Second World War. bq. When the "Big Three" Allied leaders met in February 1945, they signed a pact that agreed, among other things, to repatriate Soviet citizens to the Soviet Union. bq. The Ukrainian association said the agreement resulted in the execution of many Ukrainians and the internment of millions in the gulag. bq. This is the 60th anniversary of the pact's signing. Talk about poor taste -- the Yalta conference was a major event and I wouldn't mind a wine with just Churchill or Roosevelt on the label but Stalin of all people... Posted by DaveH at February 9, 2005 5:48 PM