In the Red Polyana appeared "Bronze Soldier"

[SergeiSK]

May 2 in Sochi opening ceremony of the memorial complex in honor of the 65 th anniversary of Victory in Great Patriotic War. Central to the memorial devoted to an exact copy of the monument, the Bronze Soldier, which was opened in September 1947 on a hill Tonismagi in Tallinn.
The memorial complex was opened in Krasnopolyanskaya rural school that is located near the mountain village of Esto-Sadok, founded more than a hundred years ago immigrants from Estonia.
A copy of the "Bronze Soldier" in Sochi suggested the Alexander Lebedev, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Reserve Corporation. A year ago as one of the candidates he participated in the election campaign in Sochi mayor and then promised to manufacture and install in Sochi, a copy of the monument.
"At my request a copy of the" Bronze Soldier "was made, but not installed. After meeting with residents of the village of Esto-Sadok, I decided to donate the sculpture of the Estonian community of Sochi", - said Alexander Lebedev.
A year later, with the participation of the Fund A. Lebedev and financial support of several businessmen Sochi sculpture was installed in the school № 65 in the village of Krasnaya Polyana.
"On behalf of Krasnaya I thank all who have made a contribution to the implementation of this idea," - said at the ceremonial meeting of the village council head KRASNOPOLYANSKY Sergey Avdeev.
In memory of those killed during the Great Patriotic War natives Esto-Trap and Krasnaya Polyana in the complex is a memorial stone carved with the names of their countrymen. Among them, four with the name of Herman, the relatives of the chairman of the Estonian community Sochi Eesti Ayake "Walter Hermann:" I am delighted that the soldier had "collected" all those who died today in Krasnaya war in one place. The names of 183 killed in war, the residents of our rural district immortalized in stone. "
At the opening ceremony of a monument on the territory of Krasnopoly school № 65 took part in World War II veterans, honorary citizens of Sochi, local residents, members of Sochi City Assembly and representatives of executive authorities.
"We bow our winners for the freedom and independence. For the victory, which made our country a great country", - said at the meeting the head of Sochi Anatoly Pakhomov.
"The beginning of our memorial is a" stone heart "- shared his thoughts with a reporter of" Caucasian Knot "Boris Tshamariya, former director of Krasnopoly School, a veteran of WWII. - This natural stone can not speak for him, we should talk. Among the dead is Graduates Krasnopoly school, its students. May their memory. "
In June 1941, the straight from school from Krasnopoly school went to the front 18 high school students. On these and other fellow villagers, who fought in the Great Patriotic War, now knows every student: fifty years ago when the school was organized Krasnopoly History Museum.
Today, the opening day of the memorial, he added yet another exhibit - a gift to the museum was transferred to the museum a copy of the Banner of Victory, erected by in 1945 on the Reichstag. By the foot of the Sochi "Bronze Soldier laid flowers. In memory of those killed during the Great Patriotic War sounded salvo.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", the actions of the Estonian government in 2007 for removing the monument to Soviet soldiers-liberators provoked strong criticism from Russian officials, described the decision of the Estonian deputies as support for neo-Nazi sentiments in the republic.
The decision to move the monument in Estonia also was criticized in a number of republics in the Caucasus. In particular, in Volgograd, in the Mamayev Hill, was a mass protest against the decision of the Estonian Parliament to dismantle the monument and reburial of the remains of Soviet soldiers. The demonstrators accused the Estonian government of "insulting the historical memory."
The protest against the actions of the Estonian authorities also expressed in the Stavropol region, Dagestan, South Ossetia and in several other regions of the Caucasus.
(Caucasian Knot)