Famous ugly

The Directorate of the Brest Fortress Memorial will require an apology and compensation for non -pecuniary damage from the CNN television company, RIA Novosti reports. CNN included the main monument to the "Brest Fortress" in the list of the most ugly monuments of the world .

"So it is impossible to relate to memory, the monument is primarily erected as a memory of those who died. It is impossible to make an anti -rating of such monuments," said Grigory Bysyuk, director of the memorial complex. He was especially outraged by the commentary of CNN journalists. “These comments are generally horror. How normal people could have guessed like that, stupidly, it is stupid to speak out. I think that the Americans simply do not know what war is and did not even read the story. They simply don’t know what the Brest Fortress is,” added Bysyuk.

"CNN is not the first attempt to reconsider the history of the Great Patriotic War, this is a conscious action is a link in one chain of events along with the blasphemous trick of the Russian television channel" Rain, "REGNUM Oleg Gaidukevich told REGNUM.

The Vice Speaker of the State Duma Secretary of the General Council of United Russia Sergey Neverov called the CNN rating offensive and "unacceptable in a normal society." “Similar“ ratings ”are at least disrespect and blasphemy in relation to the memory of millions of dead, to veterans and their descendants, who saved the world from the fascist plague,” the deputy said. In his opinion, the public, US veteran organizations should give "an appropriate assessment of such statements."

The deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation, Uneneros, Rizwan Kurbanov, demanded official apologies from the CNN television company. “Having posted on their website such formulations and assessments, they insulted not only us, but themselves, the entire American people, who also put a lot of efforts in the fight against fascism,” the deputy said. “Similar ratings or polls affecting the honor and dignity of the fallen heroes of the Great Patriotic War, all who gave their lives in the fight against the largest evil of the 20th century, are blasphemy and sacrificing and intelligence and intelligence and intelligence and intelligence. abominance ".

"Disrespect to the holy pages of history has always been rejected by any healthy society. For all countries and peoples, mocking the monuments is considered shame," Kurbanov noted. He called on "everyone who condemns such behavior, not to restrain their emotions and give this a public assessment."

The list of the most ugly monuments in the world was published on the television company in late January. According to the journalist of the television channel, the main monument of the Brest Fortress (the “Courage” monument) looks like an angry concrete Belarusian, which "was going to conquer the West, and then throw North America in the sun." However, some believe that the monument "just suffers from constipation."

The list also includes a monument in Dakar dedicated to the revival of Africa, Stonehenge Sam Hill (Washington, USA), as well as the sculptures of Martin Luther King in American Toledo and John Paul II in Rome.

The memorial complex "Brest Fortress-Hero" was opened on September 25, 1971. The main monument "Courage" is a sculptural image of a warrior and a banner, according to the website of the complex.