The Communist Party asks the prosecutor's office to check the opera with the swastika

The Communists of Tatarstan turned to the prosecutor's office with a request to check the production of the Dzhalil opera in the Tatar Academic State Opera and Ballet Theater. Musa Jalil (Tagtoib) and "if necessary, take measures of prosecutorial response." The reason for the appeal was the “undermining of the historical role” of the USSR in the victory over Nazism and the demonstration of the swastika in the performance.

The letter of the head of the Communist Party of the Communist Party in the State Council of Tatarstan Khafiza Mirgalimov to the prosecutor of the Republic Ildus Nafikov quotes Kommersatn .

Mirgalimov visited the play in February 2015. He writes to the prosecutor that in one of the scenes of the opera “I.V. Stalin and Adolf Hitler ”are held“ direct parallel ... between the Soviet system and Nazism. ” Such comparisons, the deputy believes, proceed from the “uncontrolled” work of the artist ”and“ lead to an undermining the historical role ”of the country in the Great Patriotic War.

“This is a spit towards the multinational people of Russia on the eve of the holiday - the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory,” the letter says. Mirgalimov also mentions a demonstration of swastika during the performance and refers to Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation , prohibiting the public demonstration of Nazi paraphernalia.

Earlier, the leadership of the State Council of the Republic turned to the Ministry of Culture of Tatarstan with a request for the opera Jalil in Tagtoib. The Ministry of the Ministry of Portraits of Stalin and Hitler was called a symbol of the struggle of the main forces of the Second World War.

The premiere of the opera-poems of Jalil on the libretto of Ahmed Fayzi in the production of director Mikhail Panjavidze (Bolshoi Theater) took place in Tagtoib in September 2011. According to the creators of the performance, the opera was to become a symbol of the theater, which bears the name of the Tatar poet Musa Jalil executed by the Nazis.