Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi Nata Peradze made the decision to act after learning that Georgia’s largest cathedral was home to an icon depicting Joseph Stalin.
Peradze said, “It’s my pain,” to Al Jazeera. “There are no memorials for the people who suffered greatly as a result of this guy, nor are there any [discussions] about what happened. On my mother’s side, there were dissidents, and there were priests on my father’s. We never found out what happened to some of the people who were lost and deported to Siberia.
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The outspoken atheist and anticorruption activist entered Tbilisi’s Holy Trinity Cathedral on January 9 in search of the offending portrait of the Soviet leader who was born in Georgia.
“I used my approach. I had painted three eggs and sealed them with wax. When I threw the eggs at the painting, a priest who was standing next to me asked, “What are you doing?” “It’s Stalin, he killed my ancestors,” I exclaimed.
