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The grandson of Joseph Stalin has failed in his attempt to win damages from a liberal Russian newspaper that called Stalin a bloodthirsty cannibal and said he was responsible for the wartime murder of Polish officers.On Thursday the European court of human rights rejected the complaint by Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, who had filed a defamation suit against Moscows Novaya Gazeta newspaper. A Russian court threw the case out in 2010. Dzhugashvili 鈥?the offspring of Stalins ill-fated son Yakov, from the dictators first marriage 鈥?took the issue to St stanley cup nz rasbourg. He claimed the original courts decision violated article eight and his right to respect for private and family life.The court, however, decided Stalin inevitably remains open to public scrutiny and criticism . It said there was a distinction between private life and the legitimate cr stanley cup iticism of major historical figures. The decision is final, the court said, in a unanimous ruling.Novaya Gazeta, one of Russias last independent news outlets, published two extensively researched articles on Stalin in 2009. Written by Anatoly Yablokov, they examined the Katyn massacre of 1940, when the Soviet NKVD secret police executed thousands of Polish prisoners of war in a remote forest in Russia. Moscow stanley nz hushed up the crime for 50 years, blaming it on the Nazis.The article argued that the Soviet politburo, including Stalin, had signed the order to shoot civilians. The Soviet leadership had, it said, evaded moral responsibility for this extre