On January 16, members of the State Duma unanimously
supported the adoption at the plenary meeting of the statement regarding the initiative to dismantle the monument to the Soviet soldier-liberator “Alyosha”
in the city of Plovdiv (Bulgaria).
“This appeal should be on the table of every national parliament, every
municipal deputy in Plovdiv. And if they take this step, they should understand
its consequences. We will never forgive them, as this does not offend us, those
living today, but those who died and cannot say a word for themselves, cannot
defend themselves, while Bulgaria exists today because of them,” said the Chairman
of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin
Volodin
Vyacheslav Victorovich
The Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the eighth convocation. Elected in single mandate constituency № 163 (Saratov constituency - Saratov Oblast)
during a discussion at the plenary meeting.
He recalled that Bulgaria joined
the Hitler's coalition during World War II. “Today, the new fascists, the new
Nazis who came to power, of course, want not only to rewrite history, but also
to remove all the monuments that remind people of the time when fascists were
in power in Bulgaria,” emphasized Vyacheslav Volodin.
“The barbaric initiative, if
supported by the Plovdiv Municipal Council, will bring great shame to both the initiators and the legislative and executive authorities of the city and will
clearly demonstrate the inadequacy and political short-sightedness of the Plovdiv authorities,” stressed the members of the State Duma.
Members of the State Duma
recalled that the prototype of the monument “Alyosha”, erected on the initiative of the Bulgarian people, was the Red Army soldier Aleksey Ivanovich
Skurlatov, holder of two Orders of the Red Star, a native of Altai, who in 1944
participated in the restoration of telephone communication between Sofia and Plovdiv. In August 1982, Aleksey Skurlatov was welcomed in Plovdiv with great
honours as a national hero and was awarded the title of honorary citizen of the city.
“The barbaric war unleashed
in the West against Soviet-era monuments is, in fact, a testament to the inferiority and helplessness of the current Western so-called elites, who
regularly demonstrate total incompetence and incapacity in addressing key
issues on the domestic and international agenda,” the document says.
