Communists ask to put Stalin’s name back on the map – Picture of the Day – Kommersant
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Nizhny Novgorod communists went to a rally today, demanding that the city administration decide to rename a street or square in honor of the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad. February 2, 2023 will mark the 80th anniversary of its end. Earlier in Nizhny Novgorod, it was proposed to rename Osharskaya Square to Stalingradskaya, but the proposal of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation caused rejection by local residents. At the rally, party representatives no longer talked about specific addresses, but insisted that the toponym in honor of the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad should appear on the city map as soon as possible. The local administration reported that the committee to perpetuate the memory is only working with the appeal of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation about Osharskaya Square, no new proposals have been received by the mayor’s office.
An agreed-upon rally of the regional branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation took place in Nizhny Novgorod, gathering more than 200 people under the red banners and portraits of Joseph Stalin. The participants demanded that the city administration expedite work on naming one of the streets, an embankment, a square, a public garden or a metro station as “Stalingradskaya”.
A poster was attached to the monument to the sailors of the Volga military flotilla stating that Gorky (the Soviet name for Nizhny Novgorod) and Stalingrad “have one fate, one river, one victory.”
Some of the Nizhny Novgorod residents came to the rally with photographs of their relatives who fought and died near Stalingrad. The speakers spoke about the fact that the defeat of the Nazi troops near Stalingrad was an event that radically changed the course of the Second World War, and an example of the military and labor feat of the Soviet people. The head of the City Council of War and Labor Veterans, Nikolai Kolesov, on behalf of two participants in the Battle of Stalingrad living in the city – 99-year-old Ivan Kuznetsov and 95-year-old Alexandra Nesterenko – announced support for the initiative of the Communist Party.
At the end of the rally, its participants adopted a resolution insisting on the speedy adoption of a final decision on the name of one of the city’s facilities in honor of the Battle of Stalingrad. The resolution will be sent to the mayor’s office and the city duma. According to the first secretary of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Vladislav Yegorov, the regional committee is also collecting signatures in support of this initiative, the number of votes for it “is already measured in thousands.” If the administration does not respond to the appeal of the Communist Party, the regional committee promised to continue collecting signatures “to the bitter end.”
At the end of November 2022, the communists already sent the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod Yury Shalabaev appeal, asking to perpetuate the victory of the Soviet army in the Battle of Stalingrad on the map of the city – on February 2 it will turn 80 years old. The party members proposed to rename Osharskaya Square in front of the building of the regional military registration and enlistment office or the section of Chernigovskaya Street near the metro bridge. However, citizens who objected to this idea united in the group “For the Preservation of Historical Memory, Cultural and Spiritual Heritage” and began to criticize the proposal of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. They wrote letters to Yury Shalabaev and Oleg Lavrichev, Speaker of the City Duma, saying that Osharskaya Square already has its historical name and there is no need to rename it. As an alternative, the citizens of Nizhny Novgorod proposed calling Stalingrad Square with a memorial at the crossroads of Nartov and Beketov streets.
In December 2022, the committee to perpetuate the memory of prominent personalities and historical events began to discuss the initiative of the communists. Until he made a decision.
In order to hurry up the officials, the branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation organized a rally, hoping to resolve this issue before the memorable date. The communists no longer offered concrete squares or streets for renaming. “It is important for us that the fundamental decision to name an object of the urban environment in memory of the victory at Stalingrad be made by this date,” Vladislav Egorov explained. The administration of Nizhny Novgorod reported that the committee for perpetuating the memory is still considering the appeal of the regional committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation to rename Osharskaya Square to Stalingradskaya.
The participants in the rally in Nizhny Novgorod also supported the idea of the Communist Party to return the name Stalingrad to the hero city of Volgograd. It was decided to send the relevant resolution to the presidential administration. Earlier, a public council began working in the Volgograd region to study the opinion of its residents on renaming the regional center to Stalingrad. A similar study took place in Nizhny Novgorod: the “Research Institute for Problems of Social Management” conducted a survey of citizens, finding out their attitude to the initiative of the Communist Party. According to sociologists, more than 75% of the surveyed Nizhny Novgorod residents supported this idea, 11% opposed it, and another 14% of respondents could not decide.
Two Ilyichs are not enough for the Tatar representatives of the “Communists of Russia”
The Tatarstan branch of the “Communists of Russia” appealed to the prosecutor of the republic, Ildus Nafikov, with a request to prevent the demolition of the monument to Lenin near the pier in Chistopol. This was reported to Kommersant by the first secretary of the regional party members Alfred Valiev.
He learned about the demolition of the monument from social networks, where a message was posted about preparations for the reconstruction of the pier. The authorities of the Chistopolsky district informed that the state of the monument “does not allow for its transfer”, in connection with which “a decision was made to demolish it” – this was agreed with the republican committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. The officials also said that “the specified monument is not included in the list of protected ones.”
“Our party organization receives appeals from citizens who consider this decision unacceptable, moreover, citizens point out that it was with the demolition of monuments to V.I. Lenin that the fascisization of Ukraine began,” the Communists of Russia said in a statement to the prosecutor’s office. The party members are asking the oversight body to “give an official legal assessment of the actions of officials” of the district, since “no one has the right” to demolish the monument to Lenin “at will, for the sake of commercial or other benefit.” They believe that the decision to demolish “is provocative and aimed at destabilizing the civil world during the NWO period.”
“The decision to demolish the monument to V. I. Lenin was made in connection with the construction of a pier in the city of Chistopol, since its condition does not allow it to be moved to another place. The issue was discussed with the public, primarily with the local branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the most represented communist organization in the city,” Kommersant was told in the administration of the Chistopol district. They noted that there are two more monuments to Lenin in the city: “One monument has been standing on the central square of the city since Soviet times, the second monument is in the park near the building of the Vostok cultural and leisure center.” “Members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation hold their events at these monuments. Over the past few years, representatives of the Communists of Russia party have not held public events, visits to the monuments to V.I. Lenin have not been advertised,” the district administration said.
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