Russia: Uncertain future for Stalin bust discovered in Chelyabinsk Region pond
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The remains of a statue depicting former USSR leader Joseph Stalin were found in a pond in the town of Kusa in the Chelyabinsk Region on Saturday.
The discovery occurred amid repair works while the pond was being drained.
Originally 1.5 meters (5 ft.) high, the statue is believed to have been dumped into the pond in 1956 at the height of De-Stalinization.
The future of the bust is still unclear, but ongoing debates between locals and activist suggest it will either be destroyed or placed in a local museum.
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Stalin is there. So is Lenin, and notorious secret police boss Feliz Dzerzhinsky. All are remembered, in statuary, in a Moscow park where old Soviet memorials were moved in the 1990s.
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Russia's Ministry of Culture installed busts of Lenin, Stalin, Gorbachev and other Russian leaders of the 20th century in Moscow's 'Alley of Rulers', Friday.
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Russia: Communists mark 62nd anniversary of Stalin's death in Moscow
Russia's Communist Party marked the 62nd anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin in Moscow on Thursday.
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Around 100 communists came to the Red Square in Moscow, Monday to mark the 136th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Stalin. The crowd was led by the head of the Russian Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov and together they showed their respects at the Soviet leader's tomb at the Kremlin wall necropolis.
SOT, Gennady Zyuganov, leader of Communist Party of the Russian Federation (Russian): Now you can see that 'Stalin's spring' has come: currently Stalin's ideas are still relevant. Once again I want to remind everyone that under Stalin's leadership our country gathered into a single unified state. Stalin continued Lenin's policy of industrialisation and in a few years our country has taken its place among as one of the three most powerful and important countries.
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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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Plans for new Stalin statue leave Russians divided
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Moscow - 26th April 2005
1. Wideshot Zurab Tsereteli standing by statue of Yalta Conference
2. Midshot Joseph Stalin
3. Wideshot sculpture
4. Midshot Winston Churchill, pan Franklin Rooselvelt and Stalin
5. Midshot Tsereteli bangs Churchill's shoe
6. Closuep Stalin holding pipe
7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Zurab Tsereteli, Artist
''I can see all that happened during the Stalin epoch before my eyes now, but this does not mean that we should not portray historical facts. They (Yalta Big Three) met, they made the decision to open a second front. They saved us from becoming Fascists and having to go round wearing swastika armbands. What more reason do we need? I do not come from any deeper standpoint than this. ''
8. Midshot Stalin from below
Moscow - 30th April 2005
9. Wideshot Triumphal arch on Victory Park
10. Midshot fountains and placard celebrating 60th Anniversary of VE Day
11. Wideshot Victory monument
12. Wideshot Joe Glazer walks past posters
13. Closuep posters
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Glazer, Former Gulag prisoner
''The temperature was thirty degrees below zero and all the same we were sent out to work in the Summer or in the Winter. We had no time to rest at all and after such treatment from Stalin whom we tried to help in his development of the country, you want me to love him, to respect him? I can't, even now I can't. Every time I see him on TV I begin to shake like that. ''
15. Midshot fountains and Red Star
Gori, Georgia - 13th April 2005
16. Wide shot house where Stalin was born
17. Mid shot doorway
18. Wideshot Stalin museum inside
19. Closeup bust of Stalin
20. Wideshot Zir Nauchashvilli Leads visitors around museum
21. Closuep Stalin plate
22. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Zir Nauchashvilli , Museum Director
''He (Stalin) was a great leader of the State even before the War, but there is no doubt that it was the Soviet Union who won the war and who liberated the world from Fascism. This fact cannot be escaped. ''
23. Wideshot Stalin Statue outside Gori Town Hall
24. Midshot statue
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Plans for a new statue of Joseph Stalin have left Russians divided over the legacy of onetime Communist leader.
The sculpture, by Moscow artist Zurab Tsereteli, commemorates the 1945 Yalta Conference, and shows the Allied Leaders, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Stalin in conversation.
While Stalin is seen in the West as a murderous dictator, he is still seem by many in Russia as the driving force behind the Soviet Victory in the so called 'Great Patriotic War.'.
Tsereteli, whose own Grandfather was killed during Stalin's purges explains his decision to depict the dictator by claiming he is merely depicting historical fact.
''What could I do, '' he joked, ''leave Stalin's chair empty and call the piece Waiting for Stalin?''
For Stalin's many victims, there is little to laugh about. Joe Glazer, a naturalised Russian whose father came to Russia from South Africa to work in the 1930s, spent ten years in labour camps, accused of crimes against Stalin which he did not commit.
Today he remains angered by his treatment by Stalin, a feeling made worse by what he sees as the present government's insulting decision to commemorate the man responsible.
However in Stalin's hometown of Gori in Georgia, Stalin is still viewed by many as a inspiring leader.
''He (Stalin) was a great leader of the State even before the War. '' claimed Zir Nauchashvilli, director of the Stalin Museum in Gori.
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Russia: Stalin bust unveiled in Surgut despite city authority’s objections
A bust of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was unveiled on the embankment of the Ob River in the Siberian city of Surgut, on Thursday. City authorities have said the statue does not have the necessary permissions and may have to be taken down.
SOT, Rustem Alakaev, Russky Dukh Civic Group (Russian): That is kind of a symbol of that epoch, an epoch of the Soviet people's glorious victories, an epoch of revival and restoration.
SOT, Rustem Alakaev, Russky Dukh Civic Group (Russian): We respect him as a leader. We know our history and the things he did so we decided to erect a statue to him.
SOT, Rustem Alakaev, Russky Dukh Civic Group (Russian): Of course, not everybody was positive about this idea. There were those who were against it. But everyone has his own opinion on this, we do not mind
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Lenin
For some time, in some intellectual quarters in the West, Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov - also known as Lenin - was regarded as an understandable revolutionary, perhaps a necessary revolutionary given the actions of the Tsars, certainly a sympathetic revolutionary compared with his successor - Stalin. He became an icon in Russia - his body unburied, lying in Red Square in a state of permanent, imminent resurrection. The Russian Presidential Elections take place at the end of the month, and the Acting President, Vladimir Putin, promised that if he won he would finally take the body of Lenin from Red Square and bury him. But whether the country will be able to escape the extraordinary influence of the man, his ideas and his machinery of oppression is another matter. In his short period in power between 1917 and 1924 Vladimir Illyich Lenin invented the one party state, developed a model to export communism around the world and built a completely original political system that remained intact for over seventy years. What drove him and enabled him to achieve success? Robert Service, lecturer in Russian History and Fellow of St Anthony’s College, Oxford and biographer of Lenin; Vitali Vitaliev, author, columnist, broadcaster former Soviet Journalist of the Year.
Monuments that are perceived differently by the people
Monuments that are perceived differently by the people
Vernacular Monuments
Vorovsky monument - a monument radiculitis.
In one of the houses near the Lubyanka monument to the founder of Soviet diplomacy Vaclav Vorovsky who was shot White Guard at the Lausanne Conference in Switzerland in 1923, which led to the rupture of relations between the Soviet Union and Switzerland, established a year ago at the Genoa Conference, where Vorovskii along with other prominent diplomats Chicherin, Krasin, Litvinov was one of the delegates. The monument, which created a person who knew the deceased, is considered one of the most curious in Moscow. Vorovskii depicted in a rather ridiculous pose, his untidy clothes and neuhozheny. Muscovites this monument was given a lot of nicknames, it is called a monument radiculitis, dancing lame, drunken lame But contemporaries Thieves say that this is looked fellow envoy in the heat of the argument: in the crouch, with splayed fingers of one hand, with a raised head.
A monument to Karl Marx - a monument to Karl Marx, to get out of the refrigerator
In the 60 years in Moscow, a monument to Karl Marx. - Faina, have you seen a monument to Marx? - Someone asked Ranevskaya. - You mean the refrigerator with a beard that placed opposite the Bolshoi Theater? - Clarified Ranevskaya .
Dostoevsky Monument - a monument to the man at the reception at the proctologist
Installed in front of the Russian state library.
Fyodor Mikhailovich sits in a very strange position, for this reason the monument got a nickname such as Monument to Russian hemorrhoids, The reception at the proctologist, Ankylosing spondylitis, Ek twisted!.
Monument Kuibyshev - a monument tadpole
Valerian Kuibyshev was one of those who established the Soviet power in Samara, and in 20-30s headed the Supreme Council of National Economy and the State Planning Commission, ie It is directly responsible for collectivization and industrialization. The monument he installed in 1938 on the square, which is also named after Kuibyshev, the city of Kuibyshev (now Samara). Completed project Manizer sculptor. Dimensions head sculpture slightly exaggerated in comparison with the rest of the structure, which is why the monument was not flattering nickname of citizens - tadpole.
The monument to Pushkin - a monument to Pushkin on a skateboard
November 5, 1999 in Yekaterinburg Literary quarter there was a bronze monument, erected with public funds. The poet is depicted in her nightgown, with bent arms, which symbolizes inspiration surprise.
The people called the monument karateka for an aggressive wave of the hand and Pushkin on a skateboard for the unusual shape of the pedestal.
Prometheus - student suicide
Sculpture Vardges Avagyan called Prometheus - on the facade of the building of the South Ural State University in Chelyabinsk.
Lenin monument - a monument to Lenin wrote
Most kind of informal names of the monument to St. Petersburg - Lenin with a cap and dancing Lenin, due to the unusually expressive postures of the monument. But most locals monument to Lenin on Moscow Square is known as the write. Under certain angle Lenin left hand turns in the genital organ, which is the motion of passers towards the Moscow department store is increasing.
Monument to victims of radiation catastrophes - liver monument
Monument to victims of radiation accidents in the city of Orel in the square of the liquidators of the Chernobyl accident. It is called a monument to the liver.
Glory Memorial - a monument to three, emerged from the forest
Korolev near Moscow on the avenue of victory set the Glory Memorial, called Three out of the woods, as there is a small woods behind it. On plates stamped the names of soldiers who died during World War II.
Eternal Flame - Baba fried crocodile
It's all in a wreath, which from a certain angle looks like a crocodile. Popular name at the monument came from the first days of its installation in Syktyvkar in 1981.
Sholokhov monument - a monument to the slaughterhouse
Monument to Soviet writers, public figures, Nobel Prize winner for literature, Mikhail Sholokhov, set in Moscow on Gogol Boulevard. The sculptor wanted to portray horses, floating on the water, but it turned out that their heads were severed as though, because of what the sculpture called Slaughterhouse. Also in the winter regularly turns into a monument to the Grandfather Maza, when an empty boat enthusiasts molded from snow hares.
Kurchatov Monument (Chelyabinsk) - a monument of the goalkeeper, a monument to Bin Laden
Actually, this monument monument dubbed Bin Laden after the well-known events of 2001, they say behind traces of the explosions at the skyscrapers, and the man to whom the monument, besides that with a beard, so also in long robes. But in general, this monument is called splitting the atom.
Russia: Stalin's bust unveiled at parking lot amid obstruction from local authorities
A bust of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was unveiled at a private parking lot of a business centre in Arkhangelsk on Saturday, after local authorities prohibited the placement of the monument in a public space. The unveiling of the bust was to mark Stalin's 137th birthday, celebrated on Wednesday.
SOT, Alexander Afanasyev, Deputy of the Arkhangelsk city assembly (Russian): We want to go to the city administration, to appeal to the so-called fathers of the city, satisfying all formal requirements in this appeal, and we will appeal to the Arkhangelsk city assembly to give us a worthy place in the city centre [for the monument].
SOT, Alexander Afanasyev, Deputy of the Arkhangelsk city assembly (Russian): It was created by a Moscow art group. This is a creative work, there is no such monument anywhere in the world, on Earth or in the solar system. It's an original work, a single instance, our Northern Arkhangelsk point of view of the historical personality. My favourite city deserves such a monument.
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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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Germany: Stalin's statue arrives at former prison for exhibition
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A huge statue of former leader of the USSR Joseph Stalin was transported to the Former Berlin-Hohenschoenhausen Prison, Berlin, on Tuesday, to feature in an exhibition titled, 'The Red God - Stalin and the Germans'.
The statue is to figure prominently in the exhibition, that focuses upon the so-called 'cult of Stalin' in the early years of the German Democratic Republic.
Director of the Hohenschoenhausen memorial, and former prison, Hubertus Knabe, said that Stalin was never loved in the GDR, but still lives in the memories of former East Germans. The cult of Stalin was actually never really accepted by the population, Knabe explained, But he had influenced elements, such as the youth organisations, the party, companies, these cult enterprises everywhere, and of course many older people still remember this time - which thankfully has come to an end.
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Creepy Lenin Bust On Car Passenger Seat
This creepy concrete bust freaked out passers-by when it was seen bizarrely sitting on the back seat of a car in Sofia, Bulgaria, on February 14. The filmer said: ''He looked comfortable riding on the back seat.'' The concrete scupture is belived to be that of Lenin, or Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, who ruled neighouring Russia from 1917 to 1924.
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De-Stalinization (Russian: десталинизация, destalinizatsiya) consisted of a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the ascension of Nikita Khrushchev to power.The reforms consisted of changing or removing key institutions that helped Stalin hold power: the cult of personality that surrounded him, the Stalinist political system, and the Gulag labour-camp system, all of which had been created and dominated by him. Stalin was succeeded by a collective leadership after his death in March 1953, consisting of Georgi Malenkov, Premier of the Soviet Union; Lavrentiy Beria, head of the Ministry of the Interior; and Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).