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Campaigners hope to restore destroyed Stalin monument
(20 Oct 2018) LEADIN
A full size monument to Stalin might soon appear in a small town in the middle of Russia.
Local activists are determined to restore it using fragments of the original found in a local pond.
STORYLINE
The watery resting place of Joseph Stalin's shattered statue, in the Russian town of Kusa.
But if one resident has his way, Kusa might once more have the monument to the former Soviet leader standing tall in public like it used to do 70 years ago.
Remains of the statue were found back in August as repair works to a local dam caused the water levels in the city's pond to shrink by three meters.
As a result, three fragments of the statue were found. It's thought they might have been in the water for some 50 years.
The statue's made of concrete, with some metal inside. It was originally painted white on the outside.
Stanislav Stafeev, from Essence of Time, is keen to restore the statue to its former glory. The Essence of Time movement was founded in 2011. Its ideology is a mixture of Russian patriotism and communism.
The only missing part of the statue is Stalin's arm, but Stafeev believes it won't be a problem to restore it, as the rest of the parts are in good shape.
However, he's had to keep the statue under lock and key, worried that the local authorities might claim it.
When all three parts were transferred to a private territory, local authorities began to claim them. In order to get them up, they invited the police department, invited the local newspaper Life of the Region, started putting pressure on me through this newspaper, invited up deputies of the Regional Assembly, who began to express the opinion that I must pass these fragments to the city, that is, the confrontation began, he says.
The local authorities believe the Stalin statue belongs to the state, as Viktor Penyagin, Head of Kusa municipal region explains: The citizen Stafeev took the initiative, I believe that he did it illegally, since everything that stood on the territory of the region, on the territory of the state, and there is a fact that it was put up by the state and belonged to the state before, although there are no documents on this, then later it should be used by the state too.
The statue is typical of the kind that that once stood in almost every Soviet city, during Stalin's reign of terror from 1924 until his death in 1953.
In 1956 Nikita Khruschev denounced the personality cult of Stalin, which led to the mass destruction of such statues.
Rostovtseva explains that most likely the Kusa monument was also destroyed under the cover of the night: In the museum funds there are no documents confirming the dismantling, but presumably in the year between 1956 and 1958, when the monument was located at the shore in the city park, during night time the monument was dismantled and thrown into the city pond, into the ice hole.
The local authorities say they are now happy for the monument to be restored and possibly returned to the city park, where it would have originally stood.
It's a move that some locals aren't happy about.
Yevgeny Zubov, says I am telling you straight away that my view is very negative about it, let it lie about there, and don't you even pull it out (of the pond).
While Lina Mityusheva, disagrees: It's history, and it is not a bad history. Some say, well, older generation say that there was discipline, young generation, of course, think completely differently about it now. I think it's worth it, I am for the restoration.
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: COMMUNISTS MARK 127TH BIRTHDAY OF VLADIMIR LENIN
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Russia's communists Tuesday marked the 127th birthday of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet State.
Hundreds gathered on Moscow's Red Square to lay flowers at the mausoleum which has housed Lenin's mummified corpse since his death in 1924.
Although treated like a god by the Soviets, Lenin and his ideology have been largely ignored since the break-up of the Soviet Union.
And there is now a debate raging over whether his remains should be removed from Red Square and buried in St Petersburg.
Scenes like this would never have been permissible during the days of the Soviet Union, especially on Lenin's birthday.
These people want the founder of the Soviet Union removed from his mausoleum on Red Square and buried next to his mother in St. Petersburg.
Reform-minded politicians say the time has come for Lenin to disappear from public display.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
We are still not on the right path. As long as the red stars hang over the Kremlin and as long as that beast remains buried on Red Square, reforms will not be carried out.
SUPER CAPTION: Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Democratic Union
But Lenin still has his group of supporters.
You'd be hard pressed to find anyone visiting his grave on a regular weekday afternoon.
But not so on Tuesday - hundreds of Communists came out to pay their undying respect for their hero, who was born on 22 April 1870.
Present day Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov calls Lenin one of the world's greatest politicians and thinkers.
He wants Lenin to stay where he is to let the future generation of Communists see him with their own eyes.
To mark the anniversary of Lenin's birth, these young children joined the Pioneer movement, the first step on the path of becoming a good Communist.
SOUNDBITE:
They are choosing glory to their motherland, the best traditions, respect for their parents and for working people, good education. Kids, let's go together and bow our heads to the ones who worked for the rebirth of our country this century.
SUPER CAPTION: Gennady Zyuganov, leader Russian Communist Party
For those people not satisfied with the present course of reforms in Russia, Lenin's ideas of a perfect socialist world still ring true.
On Tuesday, they stood for hours to catch a glimpse of their leader.
His body lies mummified and gets a yearly dose of the necessary fluids to keep him intact.
Some doctors in Russia say there are enough living cells left in Lenin's body to clone him in time for the next century.
There are many Russians who would welcome the return of Lenin - if cloned.
The people who came to see Lenin Tuesday think capitalism has failed in Russia - they believe only Lenin's ideas are capable of bringing Russia out of its despair.
SOUNDBITE:
Russia only gives birth to someone like Lenin once every thousand years. No one will come to see Yeltsin a year after he dies, let alone 70 years. People will come only to throw rocks at his grave.
SUPER CAPTION: Ludmilla, Lenin supporter
Moscow was once filled with hundreds of statues depicting Lenin in his various glorious revolutionary poses.
Today there are a handful left in the whole country.
But while Lenin and his ideology have been forced to take a back seat in today's capitalist Russia, there are those who forecast a comeback if the population's living standards continue to fall
SOUNDBITE:
When they will have enough evidence that their needs are simply ignored by the government, by the president, by the parliament even, in that case there are all the chances that the Leninist ideas will be revived and the new generations will accept them fully.
SUPER CAPTION: Viktor Kremenyuk, US-Canada Institute
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Campaigners hope to restore destroyed Stalin monument
(19 Oct 2018) LEADIN
A full size monument to Stalin might soon appear in a small town in the middle of Russia.
Local activists are determined to restore it using fragments of the original found in a local pond.
STORYLINE
The watery resting place of Joseph Stalin's shattered statue, in the Russian town of Kusa.
But if one resident has his way, Kusa might once more have the monument to the former Soviet leader standing tall in public like it used to do 70 years ago.
Remains of the statue were found back in August as repair works to a local dam caused the water levels in the city's pond to shrink by three meters.
As a result, three fragments of the statue were found. It's thought they might have been in the water for some 50 years.
The statue's made of concrete, with some metal inside. It was originally painted white on the outside.
Stanislav Stafeev, from Essence of Time, is keen to restore the statue to its former glory. The Essence of Time movement was founded in 2011. Its ideology is a mixture of Russian patriotism and communism.
The only missing part of the statue is Stalin's arm, but Stafeev believes it won't be a problem to restore it, as the rest of the parts are in good shape.
However, he's had to keep the statue under lock and key, worried that the local authorities might claim it.
When all three parts were transferred to a private territory, local authorities began to claim them. In order to get them up, they invited the police department, invited the local newspaper Life of the Region, started putting pressure on me through this newspaper, invited up deputies of the Regional Assembly, who began to express the opinion that I must pass these fragments to the city, that is, the confrontation began, he says.
The local authorities believe the Stalin statue belongs to the state, as Viktor Penyagin, Head of Kusa municipal region explains: The citizen Stafeev took the initiative, I believe that he did it illegally, since everything that stood on the territory of the region, on the territory of the state, and there is a fact that it was put up by the state and belonged to the state before, although there are no documents on this, then later it should be used by the state too.
The statue is typical of the kind that that once stood in almost every Soviet city, during Stalin's reign of terror from 1924 until his death in 1953.
In 1956 Nikita Khruschev denounced the personality cult of Stalin, which led to the mass destruction of such statues.
Rostovtseva explains that most likely the Kusa monument was also destroyed under the cover of the night: In the museum funds there are no documents confirming the dismantling, but presumably in the year between 1956 and 1958, when the monument was located at the shore in the city park, during night time the monument was dismantled and thrown into the city pond, into the ice hole.
The local authorities say they are now happy for the monument to be restored and possibly returned to the city park, where it would have originally stood.
It's a move that some locals aren't happy about.
Yevgeny Zubov, says I am telling you straight away that my view is very negative about it, let it lie about there, and don't you even pull it out (of the pond).
While Lina Mityusheva, disagrees: It's history, and it is not a bad history. Some say, well, older generation say that there was discipline, young generation, of course, think completely differently about it now. I think it's worth it, I am for the restoration.
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