Monuments to Stalin were banned in Ingushetia

Today, February 22, deputies of the People’s Assembly of Ingushetia in the first reading unanimously adopted a bill prohibiting the perpetuating of the memory of Joseph Stalin in the republic.

This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the People’s Assembly of the Republic of Ingushetia.

“The draft law provides for a ban on perpetuating the memory of Joseph Stalin, who underwent mass repressions, including the Ingush,” the press service explained, clarifying that the ban applies not only to the installation of busts and monuments, but also to appropriation of the name of Stalin to the settlements, the streets, the public justification for its activities, the placement of its depiction in public places and in public places and in the publications and in administrative premises in order to exalize his personality.

The explanatory note to the bill states that Stalin carried out direct management during political repression.

February 23 marks 73 years since the deportation of the Ingush and Chechen peoples. On this day in 1944, 91,250 Ingush were sent to Kazakhstan and Central Asia on false charges of “treason”. In exile from hunger, cold and illness, almost half of the population died.

Like the Ingush people, many other peoples of the North Caucasus were subjected to total deportation - more than 3.5 million people, representatives of more than 60 nationalities. In 1957, the repressed peoples, including the Ingush, were rehabilitated.