Telegram Channel of the Pskov region branch of Yabloko, 22.08.2023

Photo: The Pskov regional branch of Yabloko

Artur Gaiduk, Yabloko MP of the Pskov Region Assembly of Deputies, writes in his appeal addressed to Public Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov and sent on 22 August, that it is reported that the monument, opened on the territory of the Mikron Plant in Velikiye Luki on 15 August, became the first full-height monument to Joseph Stalin not only in new Russia, but also in all the post-Soviet area, since the time of condemnation and debunking the personality cult of Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956.

Gaiduk notes that Volgograd, Voronezh and the Moscow region refused to install a monument to Stalin.

“In the Pskov region, where 60,000 people were repressed from 1918 to 1953, a monument is erected to a politician whose name is associated with decades of violation of human and civil rights, fight against dissent, persecution of clergy and believers, de-kulakisation [the Stalin’s campaign of political repressions, including arrests, deportations, or executions of millions of kulaks – prosperous peasants – and their families ] and forced collectivisation [of farmers], de-cossackization [repressions against Cossaks], physical elimination of political competitors, creation of a system of political prisons and camps, extermination of the commanders of the army and navy,” Artur Gaiduk writes.

Gaiduk cites the decrees (adopted in the 1990s and currently in force) on additional measures to restore justice for the victims of repression that took place in the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s, on the recognition of the acts of repression against peoples subjected to violent resettlement be illegal and criminal, the restoration of the rights of all victims of political repressions of the 1920s – 1950s, the rehabilitation of repressed peoples, and the rehabilitation of victims of political repressions.

“I consider the installation of a monument in the city of Velikiye Luki to a politician who was the author of the repressions and their direct ideologist, a manifestation of disrespect for the memory of the victims of political repressions, as well as for longstanding efforts of thousands and thousands of people to restore the memory of the repressed, return their names, and elimination of the heritage of the Stalin era from our life,” the deputy sums up.

We will publish the response to Artur Gaiduk’s appeal.

Source: https://t.me/pskovyabloko/1440