Brought on a black board

Teachers of the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law of the Higher School of Economics sent a letter to the Moscow State Law Academy about the refusal to participate in joint events in connection with the restoration of the memorial plaque to Joseph Stalin. The text of the letter was published by the professor of HSE Ilya Shablinsky.

In a letter signed by the head of the head of Mikhail Krasnov, it is noted that the news of the restoration of the memorial plaque "struck" teachers. "We ... are not going to give assessments to this and just want to say that so far this board is hanging in the MGUA building, not a single employee of the department will participate in scientific and other events held by the Academy," the document says.

On Wednesday, the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the disputed periods of Russian history associated, for example, with the activities of Stalin, should be perceived adequately, including when installing memorial signs. “It cannot be an official position here. The president has repeatedly said that this is part of our history through which our country has passed,” Peskov said. “History here should be perceived as adequately as possible.”

On the eve of the departure from Moscow State University , Professor of the Department of Advocacy Henry Reznik stated. “The first thing the Bolshevik leader did was to buried the right. Stalin is mass extra -court bodies and repressions: special meetings, triples and deuces, legalized torture, the liquidation of an independent court, the presumption of innocence and the principle of adversarial, the deportation of entire peoples,” the lawyer wrote. We still cannot overcome Stalin - and in honor of the grave of the right, the main value of modern civilization, the memorial plaque is established in the temple of legal science.

In connection with the statement of the lawyer, the university respects the position of Henry Markovich Reznik, not wanting to enter into a polemic in connection with the statement of the lawyer.

On the online platform of Change.org, a petition is published demanding to dismantle a memorable sign about Stalin's performance. "We believe that perpetuating the name of one of the most bloody criminals in history, widely condemned in a civilized society, categorically unacceptable. Such actions cause irreparable harm to the reputation of the educational institution and can contribute to a positive assessment of the actions of this dictator. We demand that the memorable board be dismantled, and the MGUI administration gave how such an incident could occur in the walls of the legal university, "the text of the petition says.

In June, a marble memorial plaque with the inscription appeared on the wall of the central audience of the MGUA, occupying the building of the former higher party school with the inscription: "July 17, 1924, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin spoke in this hall with a report on the results of the XIII Congress of the RCP." The board was first installed in 1949. After the XXII Congress of the CPSU, it was dismantled.

On June 23, the Antistaline action was held in the Sakharov Center with the participation of experts and cultural figures. Among the speakers were the actors Evgeny Simonova and Veniamin Smekhov, director Harry Bardin, writers Sergey Gandlevsky and Lev Rubinstein, political scientists Kirill Rogov and Ekaterina Shulman. According to Schulman , the State Propaganda deliberately “draws a rating” in order to justify the restriction of political rights and freedoms.