A Levada Centre poll in March 2019 showed a record level of approval for Stalin. 71% of Russians said that they have a positive attitude to his role in their country’s history, with just over half the population saying that they view a dictator responsible for the death of millions “with respect”.
On the eve of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, Russian officials, acting on an order from the prosecutor's office, have removed plaques commemorating victims of the Terror and Polish officers executed by the NKVD in 1940, while the Soviet Union was still collaborating with Nazi Germany. This may have been a regional initiative, but it is very much in line with Russia’s aggressive attempts under President Vladimir Putin to blur or rewrite the darkest pages of Soviet history.
Two memorial plaques, erected in 1991, were removed from the former NKVD building in Tver on 7 May. One read: “In memory of the tortured. In the 1930s-1950s this was the Central NKVD – MGB for the Kalinin oblast and its internal prison”, the second: “In remembrance of the Poles from the Ostashkov Camp, murdered by the NKVD in Kalinin. As a warning to the world”
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You can run but you can't hide. The history is out there already.
ReplyDeleteA statue of Lenin is okay though, a communist mass murderer.
A statue of Lenin is okay though, a communist mass murderer.
DeleteI'm using 'mind boggling' too much but.....Plus it's only the liberals here but more than that in Russia.