In St. Petersburg, a rally was held against a memorial plaque Mannerheim

In St. Petersburg, about 50 people gathered on Lenin Square at the Finland Station in order to demand from the city authorities to remove the memorial plaque to Marshal Finland Karl Mannerheim, installed in the summer on the facade of the Military Academy of Material and Technical Support.

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In St. Petersburg, a demonstration against the Mannerheim board

According to Radio Liberty, Tatyana Voltskaya, a rally dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the blockade of Leningrad, was organized by several left-wing parties and movements of St. Petersburg, including the other Russia unregistered party. Says the leader of her St. Petersburg branch Andrei Dmitriev.

- This is not just a spit in the soul of Petersburgers, Leningraders, it is also an anti -state criminal act. This board destroys then
Understanding the story that unites most citizens of our country. Our authorities say: we will not allow the rehabilitation of Nazism - and suddenly they hang the board Mannerheim. And what is Mannerheim, who received an iron cross from Hitler on his birthday, is better than Bandera?!

Red paint Memorial Board Mannerheim

The rally participants recalled the blockade, the Finnish war, called on to constantly fill the Mannerheim board with paint, promised that they would achieve its removal by any ways, including through the courts.

Professor of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, historian, Archpriest George Mitrofanov regrets that the civil war in the minds of Russian citizens has not yet ended, he considers Marshal Mannerheim an extremely worthy figure.

- His wonderful, outstanding service of the Russian Empire, both as a military intelligence officer, and as the commander of the cavalry division, is all a contribution to our lives. And if the communist ideology and regime were convicted, we could only rejoice that thanks to Mannerheim of communism in Finland, there had never been.

On the evening of September 8, the board was doused for the third time in red paint. A petition appeared on the network for saving the board Marshal Mannerheim.