"Memorial" categorically against returning to the Soviet anthem: "The execution of this anthem will be an insult to the memory of the innocently killed"

A categorical disagreement with the idea of ​​returning to the Stalinist hymn was expressed by the Memorial society. In a joint statement by the Memorial and the Moscow Helsinsky group, it is again reminded that the music of Alexandrov "was the anthem of the Bolshevik party, which self -appropriating power over the peoples of Russia." "The anthem was absolutely consistent with the spirit of the Stalinist empire built on the bones of millions of people. And the revival of the communist anthem today V is not just longing for the past times. Everyone freely regret or not regret the end of the Soviet era; but the nostalgia that has embodied in the state anthem is no longer nostalgia. This is an attempt to put out of the aging of the new state politicians ". “We are deeply sure that in the new Russia, in whose constitutions, individual rights are proclaimed by the highest value, the old anthem will contribute not to consolidation, but to the split of society. Finally, the execution of this anthem will become an insult to the memory of the faultyly killed, the uncountable graves of which are still not even wanted. Is Russia worth paying such a price for several musical phrases?”