Ekaterinburg users of social networks are indignant over the appearance in the assortment of the hypermarket "Sima-Land" of souvenirs with the image of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Joseph Stalin. They urge Ekaterinburg residents to boycott the store until the goods with the image of the Soviet leader are withdrawn from sale, and management will not apologize to buyers.

"Friends, having learned today that the shopping center Sima-lend sells gift bags with a photo of Stalin, who wants" all the happiness ", decided to declare his personal civil action:" 2018 without Simalend ". I want people who consider such things to be "sweet, innocent pranks" realized that citizens still have dignity, there is a trait for which we will not be allowed to go. We remember the damage caused by the Stalinism of our nation, remember the innocent victims of terror and remember the names of the guilty executioners. I do not insist, but I urge to support the action and not to visit this shopping center until the management corrects its "oversight" and does not bring public apology, "wrote on Facebook the senior lecturer of the Sociology Department of UrFU Dmitry Trynov.

He was supported by a public figure and political analyst Dmitry Moskvin:.

"I've never been to this store. And I call to join Dmitry's action of all Ekaterinburg citizens, who still retain a sense of dignity and conscience ".

The opinions of other users of social networks are divided. Some believe that Stalin is an integral part of the history of Russia, others that the mention of the name of the bloody tyrant is blasphemy against the descendants of the repressed population of the Soviet Union.