Minister of Culture of Russia Vladimir Medinsky believes that the country should expand the pantheon of national heroes. He expressed his opinion in an article in the newspaper "Izvestia". "Every country has a national pantheon of heroes, without it there is no historical memory, there is no nation," Medinsky noted.. He pointed out that the pantheon is not the burial place of outstanding personalities, but the totality of bright people from culture, art, science, who live in the people's memory, as well as heroes who performed exploits. As an example of the "remaining in the shadows" of the heroes, he named Lieutenant Alexei Berest, commander of the fighters Mikhail Egorov and Meliton Kantari, who hoisted the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag. He also recalled that after the victory over the Polish-Lithuanian intervention of 1612 the heroes were made by militia organizers Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky, and Prince Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky and voivode Mikhail Shein - they forgot. Medinsky also remarked that there are heroes whose "exploits are overwhelmed by propaganda", citing the example of Pavlik Morozov, Alexei Stakhanov and Kliment Voroshilov. "The circulation of the novel" How the Steel Was Tempered "in its time reached almost 40 million copies. And ask the young people - who is Nikolai Ostrovsky? I think one in a thousand can answer, "he said.. "Russia needs heroes.

If you want to destroy the country, turn the nation into a population, knock out from under it a story. Unlike other countries, thank God, we do not have to invent anything. We have a great pantheon of heroes, and for some reason we are embarrassed about this, "Medinsky concluded.. Earlier Medinsky called on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Rossotrudnichestvo to support foreign displays of domestic patriotic pictures about the war.

Original article: Medina urged to expand the pantheon of national heroes.