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| Busts and monuments to Stalin in Russia |
| 2023-12-09 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate.. Edited. Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin [ColonelCassad] They report that by the end of 2023 there are already 110 installed busts and monuments to Stalin in Russia. Of these, less than 10% were installed before 1991. Most of the monuments to Stalin in the country were destroyed under Khrushchev. So the current increase in their number in fact eliminates one of the consequences of the 20th Congress and Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization. The overwhelming majority of them were established under Putin, which is not surprising, since the processes of Stalin’s rehabilitation in the public consciousness gained momentum in the second half of the 2000s, when the process of materially fixing Stalin’s return to the public agenda actually began. The authorities rather prevented this, but without fanaticism. Attempts to replace Stalin with Stolypin, Nevsky or Nicholas II did not lead to anything and they simply gave up on this, limiting themselves to slowing down attempts to install full-size monuments to Stalin in large cities. After the start of the Northern Military District, this process only intensified, as Stalin became even more fashionable as a symbol of mobilization, order and victory. At the same time, it is important to remember that monuments to Stalin are not always erected by communists, and among the huge number of sympathizers of the activities of the leader and teacher of all nations, not all are members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and other communist associations. PS. We don’t yet have a monument to Stalin in Sevastopol, although before de-Stalinization it stood near the railway station in the park. Demolished under Khrushchev. But Stalin played a huge role in the fate of Sevastopol and the current appearance of the city arose thanks to Stalin’s decision to urgently restore Sevastopol through the efforts of the entire country after the Second World War. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 They have a statue of Lenin in Seattle. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-12-09 07:51 |
