veterans who disagree with the decision of the authorities, wrote a letter to MK
Moscow City Hall to the 65 th anniversary of the Victory is going to "beautify" the city of portraits of Stalin.
We believe this idea sacrilegious.
The role of Stalin - it is not victory, but the unthinkable, with nothing commensurate with the extent of losses.
Stalin - a rout of the army leadership, the destruction of professional military personnel in 1937-1938.
Stalin - this extrajudicial destruction in 1930 of hundreds of thousands of our countrymen who would in 1941 join the ranks of the defenders of the motherland.
Stalin - a collapse of the defense industry, shootings and arrests of the leading organizers, designers and engineers.
Stalin - a criminal and shameful collusion with Hitler in 1939, supplying Nazi Germany to Soviet raw materials and aggressive policy, for which the Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations.
Stalin - a monstrous political shortsightedness that led to the catastrophe of the first months of the war, when the Nazis occupied the vast territory and captured millions of our soldiers. For these achievements fascist troops Stalin did more than all the German field marshals and generals.
Stalin - is unprecedented in the history of an example of betrayal: the soldiers, captured by the fault-chief, were declared traitors.
Stalinist policies, we and our family felt the full even before the war and the war have seen no publicity points.
We know about Stalin's role was not hearsay. For us it is not tales of Stalin's textbooks and student outlines the History of the CPSU (b). It's part of our lives - at the front or the rear.
We have done everything for victory, not because so ordered Stalin - we are simply defending their homeland, which was many centuries before Stalin, and will continue for many centuries after Luzhkov.
Initially, one might think that the idea of Moscow officials due to their incompetence - nothing else can explain the words of Yuri Luzhkov of "Stalinist ten strokes, the story of which he could not find in today's textbooks. It's a cliche Stalinist propaganda has long been filed.
But after the first public criticism of the Moscow City Hall raced this demagoguery that has become clear: it is not just incompetence, but also a conscious effort to rehabilitate Stalin.
No one opposing the poster did not call "abandon history" and "black out the wrong page", as falsely trying to present officials.
On the contrary: it is on these pages - not "wrong", and the tragic - and we believe it is necessary to remember.
Naturally, during the Soviet era crimes of the communist regime did not condemn, and Stalin's crimes mentioned very rarely.
But after the Soviet government, for all the nearly 20 years in power, Luzhkov never on the streets of Moscow did not add any poster telling about Stalin's crimes against his own people, against the army.
And now for some reason the 65 th anniversary of Victory Muscovites offer new look at the products Stalinist agitprop.
We believe this decision is not just a personal affront to us all and for the people who won the victory. We are confident that this decision is an insult to the whole country, that it undermined the prestige of Russia.
Moreover, it undermines the very greatness of the Victory, inherited such an incredible price. It is unacceptable to the Victory Day hang portraits of torturers and murderers.
We call on the mayor of Moscow to rescind its decision.
Vladimir Kristapovich Kantian, a disabled war veteran, prisoner of the Gulag. Yuri L. Sagalovich, disabled veteran, Ph.D., a former machine gunner and scout. Olga Noevna Kosorez, veteran, volunteer, served in the exploration, radio operator and translator. Mark M. Rafał, veteran 1941-1945., Captain of marines, the defense of Moscow. Jacob Kostyukovsky, a war veteran and screenwriter. Lev Netto, a veteran of World War II, a prisoner of the gulag, party Norilsk uprising in 1953, Mark Solomonovich Neufeld, disabled veteran, honored inventor of Russia, Candidate of Technical Sciences. Lena A. Litveyko-Belyakov, a veteran of World War II, honored the donor of the USSR, a pediatrician. Semen Filippovich Marshak, a disabled war veteran, chairman of the veterans VNII "Stroydormash.
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