The Russian Orthodox Church against the restoration of Soviet symbols, dividing the people

The Russian Orthodox Church (the Russian Orthodox Church) against the restoration of Soviet symbols that are able to bring to the people, said the head of the publishing house of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archpriest Vladimir Siloviev, at the press conference on the possible return of the monument to Stalin to the Kurskaya metro station, RIA Novosti reports.

Earlier, the chief architect of Moscow, Alexander Kuzmin, said that he considers it permissible to return the monument to Stalin to the station that opened after the reconstruction.

"When the symbols that will act on the separation of the people are purposefully establish, I do not agree," Siloviev said.

According to him, Soviet symbols were lost in due time for a reason. “There was a serious work to get rid of this Stalinist heritage, a negative Stalinist heritage. After all, there is a positive thing in this era - this is a victory in the Great Patriotic War, this is the labor and combat heroism of our people,” Archpriest emphasized.

According to Silovyov, Moscow should be the capital of the world. “I would like the metro, despite the Soviet communist symbols, to also acquire a place, indeed, peace,” Archpriest said.

He recalled the tragic events - explosions of houses at the end of the last century, on the site of which there are now temples, chapels, where they pray for peace. Siloviev noted that he always passes by a commemorative board on Avtozavodskaya with sorrow. "I urge you to put the chapel in memory of the dead somewhere in this place. They put a commemorative board inside the metro," he said.

Siloviev noted that the conference is no coincidence on the eve of October 30 - the day of memory of those who died in Stalin's dungeons. On this day, a solemn requiem will be served at Solovetsky stone.

He recalled that the Church does a lot in relation to the restoration of memory of the dead during the Stalinist repressions. “A lot of literature, articles come out ... As for some specific small signs, this is our business is a matter of public. We are polemicizing on this topic so that people still understand what symbolism is,” he said.

The conference was also performed by the chairman of the “Return” movement, Yuri Bondarenko and Deputy Director of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Lavrov.

Bondarenko spoke out that the public did not remain indifferent to the possible return of the monument to Stalin in the subway and participated in the solution of this issue. In his opinion, the return of the monument is Stalin's propaganda and a provocation against the president and prime minister.

Lavrov added that, despite the existence in Russia, about a dozen monuments to Stalin, the textbooks of Filippov-Danilov that justify his actions are much more dangerous.

Two months ago, the opening of the lobby after the restoration of the Kurskaya Koltsevaya station caused an ambiguous public reaction. Then, after the reconstruction, a line from the first version of the anthem of the Soviet Union appeared at the station on the station of the triumphal arch "Stalin raised us to loyalty to the people, and inspired us to work and on exploits." This inscription was applied to the wall in 1950, and in 1961 it was replaced by another line from the anthem.

The station was built in 1950 according to the project of architects Grigory Zakharov and Zinaida Chernyshova.