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Manitoba nixes Stalin on wine labels

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WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Wines bearing the picture of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on the labels will no longer be sold in Manitoba, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., reports.

Acting on numerous complaints, the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission ordered the removal of a nine-year-old port and a sherry from provincial retail outlets.

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Both brands are made in Ukraine, yet the majority of complaints came from people of Ukraine descent.

"No mass murderer's mug should grace a wine label," Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association said in a statement.

Orycia Trascz of Winnipeg was another who complained.

"Why would anyone want Stalin on a bottle of wine, or any other place, and think they could promote it by having his picture on it?" she said.

The labels show a photograph of Stalin, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the World War II Yalta Conference in February 1945.

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