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In Moscow, the busts of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and other leaders of the Soviet state were installed on the Alley of the rulers. This is reported by Interfax.
The opening ceremony of new busts was attended by their author Zurab Tsereteli, the head of the State Duma Committee on Cultures Stanislav Govorukhin and Deputy Minister of Culture Alexander Zhuravsky.
Lenin and Stalin can be evaluated in different ways, but both of them "part of the history of Russia, which must not be forgotten," said Zhuravsky. “Fighting the monuments absolutely hopelessly, the story needs to be known in all its diversity,” the deputy minister said.
In addition to Lenin and Stalin, Busts of Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev appeared on the alley.
According to Zhuravsky, on February 1 of the next year, on the birthday of the first president of Russia Boris Yeltsin, his bust will be installed on the alley.
According to RBC, immediately after the end of the ceremony at the Bust of Stalin, an activist stood in a single picket. She had a poster in her hands with a quote from Anna Akhmatova’s poem to “Stalin's Defenders”.
The "Alley of the rulers" was opened on May 26 at the building in Petroevi Lane, where the "Museum of Military Uniform" of the Russian Military Historical Society is located. Then, 33 busts of Russian rulers, from Rurik to Alexander Kerensky, were installed on it.
In July, a monument to Ivan the Terrible of the sculptor Vasily Selivanov was delivered to the square in the square in Petroevi Lane. The monument was to be established by the city of Aleksandrov of the Vladimir region, but the city authorities postponed the opening of the monument for an indefinite period.