More Stalingrad

The Governor of the Volgograd Region Andrei Bocharov approved the proposal to assign the name Stalingrad to the reconstructed international airport of Volgograd. This was reported by the press service of the administration of the region.

Representatives of veteran organizations turned to the governor to the Governor to confine the renaming by the 75th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad. “This would be a good sign of patriotic education, a sign for the youth, that we honor the conquest and the feat of our fathers and grandfathers who defended Stalingrad,” said Sergey Nazarov, chairman of the regional council of veterans.

“Over the years, there has been the idea of ​​reviving the former name of the city. The creation of the Stalingrad airport will be removed this issue,” said Yuri Torgashov, deputy chairman of the Council of Veterans.

The governor approved the proposal of veterans. At the same time, Bocharov emphasized that the issue requires study.

Volgograd Airport is reconstructed to the 2018 Football World Cup.

In June 2014, at the celebrations in Normandy, President Vladimir Putin proposed holding a referendum in Volgograd on the renaming of the city to Stalingrad . “In accordance with our law, this is the case of the subject of the federation and the municipality,” Putin said, answering the question of the Russian veteran. “In this case, residents should hold a referendum, decide that the inhabitants will say and do so.”

Veterans expressed their readiness to go to Volgograd to help with a vote. “Please,” Putin agreed. He recalled that "there is Stalingrad Square in Paris." According to Putin, this name is remembered in other cities of Europe.

May 5 last year, the Memorial International Human Rights Society made a statement. It said that the scale of Stalin’s crimes are such that its glorification should be prohibited by law .

"Stalin’s crimes have no analogues in Russian history. Their scale is such that the appearance of his images in public space in any positive context is unacceptable and should be prohibited by law," the memorial noted. At the same time, it was emphasized that we are not talking about the prohibition of mentioning the name of the dictator.

"It is not in any way that Stalin from history and prohibiting its mention is in any way, as Stalin himself did with the former associates destroyed by him. But the place of dictators - in the museum halls, textbooks, historical monographs in the context of their acts, and not in the squares of the cities, - the limits are in which a person loses the right to public respect. The legislative ban on the public glorification of Stalin demonstrates that the state still did not realize the existence of such limits. "