An action against restoration of the inscription praising
Joseph Stalin in the elements of decoration of the Kurskaya
metro station took place on September 16. YABLOKO’s activists
handed to the passers-by the book 1937 (a collection of
articles and documents on Stalin’s repressions) published
by YABLOKO and the Memorial human rights centre. Activists
of Memorial also participated in the action.
“I as a deputy of the Moscow City Duma and a teacher is
fully aware of the danger such “creeping” stalinisation
is prone of,” said Eugeni Bunimovich, deputy head of YABLOKO’s
Moscow branch and Chair of the Moscow City Duma Commission
for Education and Science. “I am certain that children will
not look at it as at some [architectural] monument, they
will see that Stalin did inspire people,” he added.
Bunimovich also noted that “the station is devoted to victory
[over fascism in the Second World War], and praising Stalin
there presents anther statements that the victory was won
by Stalin, rather than by solders. My father went through
the entire war and it’s an insult for me,” Bunimovich said.
In the end of August YABLOKO spoke against reconstruction
of praises to Joseph Stalin initially made as part of the
decorations at construction of the station. YABLOKO demanded
from the heads of the Moscow Metro to urgently dismantle
the elements of the decorations of the station connected
with dictator’s name.
“Insult of the memory of millions of victims of Stalin’s
regime can not be justified by any restoration works at
the initial decoration of the station,” ran YABLOKO’s statement.
Photographs from the action see at the
Moscow YABLOKO web-site
See also:
Overcoming
Stalin’s Legacy
