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| Security forces conduct a search at the Elan Cossack Memorial Center |
| 2024-04-08 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Petty bastards [KavkazUzel] The FSB conducted a search at the Elansky Cossack Museum and Memorial Complex in the Rostov Region. As the Caucasian Knot reported, the Elansky Cossack Museum and Memorial Complex was founded in 2006. In May 2016, the authorities of the Rostov region initiated an inspection of the museum of the anti-Bolshevik struggle in the village of Elanskaya. Officials declared "the inadmissibility of the work of a private museum dedicated to General P.N. Krasnov," declaring their intention to contact the prosecutor’s office. The authors of the petition in defense of the museum collected more than a thousand signatures. They demanded not to allow the closure of the Museum of the History of the Don Cossacks and the memorial "Don Cossacks in the Fight against the Bolsheviks." A search took place in all objects of the estate with the seizure of a number of documents and books." The director was not on site during the search, nor were his lawyers, the Activatika telegram channel reported today. On the museum’s website and the page of the museum’s founder, entrepreneur Vladimir Melikhov, there is no information about how the search ended. It should be noted that this is not the first time that searches have been carried out in the museum. In 2015, during a search, security forces seized deactivated antique weapons from the 19th century from the exhibition of a museum in Podolsk. During the trial, it was determined that the 1898 revolver was not a firearm, but its parts were suitable for use in a similar revolver. Vladimir Melikhov was sentenced to one year of restriction of freedom, reports the Rostov publication panram.ru. In 2019, one copy of the complete works of Ataman Pyotr Krasnov, the book "Veshensky Uprising" and the album "The Tragedy of Russia and the Cossacks in the 20th Century" were confiscated from the Yelansky Cossack Memorial Center. Let us also recall that on January 30, 2008, the atamans of the All-Great Don Army recognized the rehabilitation of General Krasnov as impossible because of his collaboration with the Nazis. In February of the same year, in the Rostov region, a Cossack colonel was removed from his post for proposing the rehabilitation of Ataman Krasnov. |
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