'Those who deserved died': a monument to Stalin was erected in Russia

In Novosibirsk, Russia, to the anniversary of the victory solemnly opened a monument to Joseph Stalin. Near the 200 a man with portraits of Stalin and red flags arrived at the courtyard of the regional branch of the Communist Party, where a bust was installed.

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Participants in the ceremony said that Stalin's policies contributed to the prosperity of the USSR. And the repressions that accompanied it were allegedly necessary, since “the Soviet state had many enemies.”

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“This man has done a lot for the country. The factories started working, the peasantry started working, collective farms and state farms started working. Everything was working... Those who deserved it died,” says Vitaly Sukhorukov, who worked as vice-rector of one of the institutes.

The mayor of the city, first secretary of the Novosibirsk regional committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Anatoly Lokot also took part in the ceremony. “Under the leadership of Stalin, the Soviet people defeated the fascist occupiers and restored the country after the war. His merits are enormous. And with the opening of this monument we honor the Generalissimo of the great victory. And we won’t let the so-called liberals rewrite our history,” he said.

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Among the townspeople there are many opponents of the installation of the monument. “Stalin seems to have died, but the state of society, the split, the confrontation that he left us is still alive. There is no place in the city where this monument should stand. This is an insult,” says Konstantin Golodyaev, an employee of the Novosibirsk Museum.

The initiators of the installation of the monument do not exclude that opponents of the monument to the Soviet dictator will hold protests. According to representatives of the regional branch of the Communist Party, the territory in which the bust was installed will be taken under round-the-clock protection.

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On March 13, the Novosibirsk Arts Council finally approved the installation of a monument to Stalin on the territory of the regional committee. Of the 16 experts, 11 were in favor. According to the chairman of the artistic council, architect Alexander Lozhkin, this is a compromise solution that “will allow those who wish to lay flowers, and at the same time will not offend people who consider Stalin a tyrant.”

Earlier, the mayor’s office on its website held a discussion of the most suitable place for the installation of the monument. 155 received positive comments on the proposal to establish a bust of Stalin in the city, and in 97 of them there was absolutely identical text. In total, the project received a 243 review: in addition to positive, there were 85 negative and three empty. More than 11 thousands of people signed a petition on change.org against the appearance of such a monument.

The initiative group sought to install the monument to Stalin in Novosibirsk from the beginning of the 2000s. For this, more than 500 thousand rubles were collected.

As wrote earlier ForumDaily:

• In June, 2018, the VCIOM introduced list of figures of the early twentieth century, causing sympathy among the Russians, the first three places were taken by Nicholas II (54%), Stalin (51%) and Lenin (49%).

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