2023-12-25 18:40:34
In Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan’s second largest city, there is a strange statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin on the grounds of a private school. The seated statue leans slightly forward, as if inviting passers-by to sit down and talk.
Robert Coulson’s article states that more than 100 statues of Stalin can now be seen across Russia. Most of them were erected during the 24-year rule of Vladimir Putin. Manipulating the main parts of Stalin’s legacy, Putin takes advantage of that legacy to impose his views on creating a statist (from the French word “eta” which means “state” and means “statism” on the political and economic level – ed.), nationalist, militarized Russia. Many analysts call this policy “neo-Stalinism”.
“In today’s Russia, “Lenin” is nothing more than a figure in a mausoleum, but “Stalin” is our daily reality. Putin’s regime has a clear attitude towards Stalin, Stalinists and Stalinism. This attitude is mainly related to the roots of the regime. The KGB cannot be against “Stalin” in terms of ideas and actions, Stalin is their master, their destiny, their life story.– business man Leonid Nevzlin He says so in an essay he wrote for Radio Liberty in 2020. He left Russia and moved to Israel in 2003, after Putin took over the oil giant Yukos. “Stalin” is such a private operation that the population is involved in the process of Stalinization and mobilized to become neo-Stalinists. In the cultural and psychological sense, we remain a Stalinist society”, – these are the words of that businessman.
“We really live in Stalin’s legacy. The main things here are fear, atomization, obedience and other types of social evil”, – Tatar activist and political analyst who called Stalin a “great manipulator” Ruslan AisThis is what he wrote in his essay for the “Idel.Realii” service of Radio Liberty in August.
KGB officer in 1991 Alexey Solovyov He was sent to the village of Smolenko, located in the Far East. He was to examine archival evidence proving that the victims of Stalinist repression in that village were thrown into mass graves in the forest after their execution. This was part of an effort to expose crimes committed by the Stalinist government against the Soviet people. That period covered the end of the Soviet era and the first years of the post-Soviet era. Solovyov, who is now 92 years old, said in an interview with RFE/RL that they discovered 50 simple mass graves in which at least 2,500 people were buried within a few months. These people were unjustly executed in 1937-38. According to experts’ calculations, at least 8,000 people were buried in that forest, but there is also the fact that research was stopped a long time ago.
Prisoners of GULAQ labor camps in Perm
“Sentences were not announced to convicts”
According to Solovyov, the history of that expedition goes back to his conversation with an old former officer in 1980. He says that he promised never to reveal the name of this officer who worked in the security agencies during Stalin’s time: “He looked sick and worried. What I heard was amazing and terrifying. He said that he expected to die soon and that he had to share this knowledge about those terrible events with someone.”
Freedom radio
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