There is no “national consensus” about the figure of Stalin, who died in 1953
The Russian enclave authorities of Kaliningrad, located between Poland and Lithuania, rejected a monument to Soviet leader Josef Stalin for not contributing to the unit of the company, the Russian press reported Thursday.
According to Kaliningrad counselor Elena Dyatlova, the monuments to historical personalities “should not cause conflicts between social groups,” said the Spanish agency Efe.
According to Dyatlova, quoted by the Kommersant daily, there is currently “no national consensus” about the figure of Stalin, who died in 1953.
In particular, the declaration of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR, 1922-1991), in which the period between the 1930s and the early 1950s is referred to as “the years of stalinist repression”, was mentioned between the Union. .
The communists, who had presented the initiative for the installation of the monument, accused Dyatlova of a “antishandic position” and compared the refusal to a “spit in the face of the veterans” of World War II (1939-1945).
Human rights organizations denounced the rehabilitation and bleaching of Stalin’s figure and historical role, considered a dictator, who led the 1924 USSR until he died in 1953.
Stalin is better seen by President Vladimir Putin’s regime than Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), accused by Kremlin (Russian Presidency) of launching the foundations of the current conflict with Ukraine, which joined the USSR.
Since arrival at Putin’s power in 2000, almost a hundred monuments were installed to Stalin, a trend that has accelerated since the annexation of the Ukrainian Peninsula of Crimea in 2014.
