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| In the Rostov region, portraits of Nazis were confiscated from the Don Cossacks museum | |
| 2024-04-09 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Portraits of Nazi criminals were confiscated from a museum dedicated to the Don Cossacks in the village of Elanskaya, Rostov region. Representatives of operational services reported this on April 8.
“Portraits of Nazi criminals have been seized,” a representative of the operational services told TASS. As Regnum reported, the museum and memorial complex in the village of Elanskaya was opened in 2006. At the entrance to the museum, a monument was erected to the Don Ataman Pyotr Krasnov, who led the Cossack SS division during the Great Patriotic War. Since the museum is located on private territory owned by businessman Vladimir Melikhov, the monument can only be dismantled with the consent of the owner. Many years of attempts by social activists to achieve the demolition of the monument did not yield results. According to Doctor of Historical Sciences, member of the Russian Military Historical Society Anatoly Agafonov, the complex and ambiguous figure of Krasnov is one of the headaches of the Rostov region. The Supreme Court of the USSR recognized Krasnov as a war criminal and sentenced him to death. This is exactly how the ataman should be perceived, because his activities were directed against the Soviet Union and against the Soviet people. | |
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