Russians are planning to erect a monument to Stalin in the Crimea (link in Russian). Of course, Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars are finding this extremely offensive but that’s kind of the whole point.
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Russians are planning to erect a monument to Stalin in the Crimea (link in Russian). Of course, Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars are finding this extremely offensive but that’s kind of the whole point.
Apparently it will be a statue of Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt to commemorate the Yalta Summit which agreed upon the new post-war borders of Poland, the repatriation of Soviet citizens back to the USSR, and the Soviet Union entering the war against Japan after the defeat of Germany. Of course the Yalta Summit took place in a Crimea that had upon its recovery from the Germans been almost completely purged by Stalin of its Crimean Tatar, Greek, Bulgarian, and Armenian populations. The NKVD deported around a quarter of a million people eastward to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, the Urals, and Siberia as special settlers from May through July 1944.
http://jpohl.blogspot.com/2009/05/sixty-five-years-since-deportation-of.html
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Putting Churchill and Roosevelt by Stalin’s side doesn’t make the whole thing less offensive. At first, the statue was going to be placed in Russia but the locals protested. Sticking it in Ukraine, however, is suddenly acceptable.
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