The YABLOKO party has repeatedly raised the
topic of the need to overcome the totalitarian legacy of our
country. One of the key prerequisites for such policies is
[taking out of the Mausoleum] and burial of the body of [the
leader of the October 1917 riot] Vladimir Lenin, transfer
to cemeteries of the remnants of Joseph Stalin and other Soviet
political figures buried at the Kremlin wall. In this issue
we completely support the position of the Russian Orthodox
Church.
The bodies of the executioners of Russia’s peoples should
not lay at the main square of out country.
On the other hand we think that reburial of the bodies of
Soviet leaders only should not become the prime goal here.
At present Russia acutely needs comprehensive complex measures
for de-Sovietisation and de-Stalinisation of its public and
social life.
Such measures should also include development and implementation
of educational and awareness programmes restoring the memory
of people’s tragedy – Bolshevism and its “top stage” Stalinism;
eternizing the memory of the victims of terror and renaming
of the settlements and streets names after executioners.
Only joint efforts by the state, the society, religious confessions,
academic community, journalists and cultural figures in overcoming
the totalitarian past can guarantee that this past will never
return to our country.
Sergei Mitrokhin,
Chair of the YABLOKO party
See also:
Overcoming
Stalin's Legacy
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