Public against the monument to Mikoyan in Yerevan

A group of public activists turned to the leadership of Armenia demanding that the decision of the Council of Elders Yerevan on the installation of the monument to the Soviet statesman Anastas Mikoyan in the city of the monument to the city of the monument to the city.

The appeal is addressed to the Prime Minister of Armenia Ovik Abramyan, Minister of Culture Asmik Poghosyan, members of the Council of Elders and mayor Yerevan Taron Margaryan, reports REGNUM .

The document states that Mikoyan was “involved in repression and in some cases even initiated them against thousands of innocent people.” Examples are given the initiative of Mikoyan “to increase the limited list of persons to be shot in Armenia in 1937” and his “Consent to shoot Poles in Katyn and another 4 thousand people in Irkutsk”.

“Mikoyan, together with the highest leadership of the USSR, is responsible for the formation of the atmosphere of political repression,” public activists write. They also note that Mikoyan contributed to the “inclusion of Karabakh in Azerbaijan” by a decision of 1921.

“We hope that the members of the Council of Elders Yerevan would not have made a decision to establish a monument to the state and political figure of the USSR Anastas Mikoyan, especially, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide (in the Ottoman Empire of 1915), if they knew better the true picture of his state and political activity. We hope that members of the Elders of Yerevan with proper liability will approach their mission and invalidate the indicated decision, ”the appeal says.

In turn, the cousin of Anastas Mikoyan, 84-year-old Artavazd Mikoyan, told the Armenian media that Anastas Mikoyan had not committed any crime against the Armenian people, and deserves the monument.

Since 1935, Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All -Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (b), in different years he occupied the posts of People's Commissar of Trade, food industry, supply, deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

In the 1930s, hundreds of employees of the People's Commissariat of the People's Commissariat, the USSR People's Commissariat for the USSR were arrested from the sanction of Mikoyan. Mikoyan not only gave sanctions for arrest, but also himself acted as the initiator of the arrests. In the fall of 1937, he traveled to the Armenian SSR to conduct repressions of employees of party and state bodies of the republic.

Mikoyan headed the commission on charges of counter -revolutionary activities of prominent party members. In particular, together with Yezhov in 1937, he was a speaker at the February-March plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (b) in the Bukharin case.

It was Mikoyan who acted on behalf of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks on the solemn asset of the NKVD dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the YCh-GPU-NKVD. After the praise of Yezhov’s activity, the justification of mass repressions, Mikoyan ended his report with the words: “The NKVD was gloriously worked during this time!”

On March 5, 1940, together with Stalin, Molotov and Voroshilov, Mikoyan signed a signature under the decision of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All -Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (b) on the execution of prisoners of Polish officers (Katynsky shooting).