In Russia, on May 14, Moscow's Sokolniki metro station posted portraits of the Soviet secretary general Joseph Stalin and his companion Lazar Kaganovich. At the entrance to the metro station hung a banner: "To the great native Stalin, the initiator of the construction of the metro - the proletarian greetings".
Such a step was explained by the fact that Muscovites should be grateful to Stalin for the metro.
Photos with a portrait of Stalin in the center of Moscow caused heated discussions in social networks.
Russian writer-satirist Viktor Shenderovich in his Facebook expressed his indignation over the images.
"The holiday here in Sokolniki: the day of the launch of the metro station! And not even an anniversary, but simply - the anniversary of the launch. And not even today is the anniversary, but tomorrow, but all the same: do not waste the same weekend! So they decorated the station in advance - with portraits of Tov. Stalin and Comrade. Kaganovich, as well as a courageous banner glorifying one of them, who was the main initiator of all this underground joy, "he wrote..
"Ah, it turned out well! Spring, people walk with children past portraits, Stalin smiles at them in his mustache. Patriotic education, I will. Correctly! If it were not for Stalin, we would, I suppose, still had no metro! And we are not ungrateful enough not to hang for it his huge portrait in the middle of Moscow ... "- noted the writer.
Shenderovich suggested on August 12, on the Day of the Athlete, over the Institute of Physical Education and near all sports grounds to hang a portrait of the serial maniac Andrew Chikatilo.
"He, with a large margin, is the most famous physical education teacher, is it true? And who will say that he was a bad athlete?" He was a great athlete, strong, he remembered so many ... Serial killer, you say? Well, yes, of course, but this Such a small thing. At least, against the background of Stalin ... And then: it was such a time! Dark, stagnant ... ", he writes.
"But the Germans are pure pigs, without any chance of restoring the human form.
How many autobahns I drove there - not a single portrait of Hitler! And who built these autobahns? Ungrateful people. Now they are decaying for this in the middle of a geyrop, without any spirituality ... And rightly so, I believe. And this is rottenness for them, and for us this flourishing, "the writer concluded..
As reported by the "Observer", previously fans of Stalin filled up his bust with flowers in Moscow.
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