The check cannot be pulled out

The police of the Krasnoselsky district of St. Petersburg tore off the action, during which it was supposed to hang the signs "Lustration Street" on houses on the Chekist Street. It is reported by Radio Liberty. As we might assume, the action was timed to the day of Russia.

The event, in advance by the city department of "Solidarity", participated by 10 members of this movement and other activists. When they arrived at the house 20 on the Chekist Street, a large number of police officers, including riot police and operatives in civilian, were already waiting for them.

Activists entered the dispute with the security forces, proving that their collection is not a mass event, since they have no posters or symbols of organizations with them.

Nevertheless, the police not only dispersed the audience, but also pursued them on their cars for a long time, locking them in the yards and glowing into the eyes of the headlight headlights. The persecution stopped only when activists left the territory of the Krasnoselsky district.

The detentions are not reported.

In the announcement of the action, published on June 11 at the VK page of the St. Petersburg "solidarity", it was noted: "The country failed to overcome the legacy of the totalitarian past. The trial of the CPSU and its armed detachment of the Cheka - the KGB, similar to the Nazism in Nuremberg, was not held, and there are still cadres, there are still personnel in power, there are still personnel in power. Boarded by the CPSU ".

The presence on the map of the city of Chekists Street "Solidarity" called the "Heritage of the totalitarian past" and "insulting the memory of our fellow countrymen who became victims of political repression", as well as "hundreds of thousands of residents of the city, whose relatives were arrested, expelled or shot."

"We believe that the Chekistov Street, singing people who dealt with our fellow countrymen, should be renamed Lustration Street, consisted of circulation. - We believe that Russia will never take place as a legal, democratic state without lustration."

After the Revolution of Dignity, active deliverance from Soviet toponymy and symbolism of the beginning of Ukraine. If in the west of the country the decommunization as a whole was carried out back in the 1990s, then in other regions there were a lot of Soviet names. In April 2015, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the law "On the condemnation of the Communist and National Socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and the prohibition of propaganda of their symbols." According to this law, Soviet toponyms are replaced by other, in particular historical ones, and Soviet monuments are demolished. In May of this year, the name of the third or fourth in the population (according to various estimates) of the city of the country of Dnepropetrovsk was decommunicized - now it is called Dnipro.