Sickening Heritage of Stalinizm

28 December 2012

On December 21, 2012 the regional branch of Russian organization “Essence of Time – Crimea” opened the street exhibition in Simferopol, timed to the anniversary of Stalin’s death – a criminal, whose activity was condemned in Ukraine by the law “On Holodomor 1932–1933 in Ukraine” of November 28, 2006 and corresponding court decision, and in Europe by the Resolution of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly “Reunion of the divided Europe” of July 3, 2009.

The attempt of the instigators, inspired by Russian neo-Stalinist Sergei Kurginyan to present a villain as one of the most significant leaders of the state “in the history of Russian civilization” humiliates the memory of peoples that lived through the tragedies that were terrible as for their scale and consequences – Holocaust, Holodomor, deportations on the national grounds, repressions of Ukrainians, Jews, Crimean Tatars, Armenians, Poles, Germans, Greeks and representatives of many other nationalities of the country.

Not without a malicious intent the provocation was organized at the period when Ukraine is chairing at the OSCE that condemned the Nazi and Stalin’s totalitarian regimes, responsible for “numerous military crimes and crimes against a mankind, that brought the genocide, violation of human rights and freedoms”.

We share fully Crimean Tatars’ anger that destroyed the exhibition, glorifying the dictator, responsible for the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people that were deprived of its Homeland and that suffered innumerable losses during the deportation.

We call Ukrainians of other nationalities to support the legal indignation of Crimean Tatars and speak against any attempts to use the personality of the criminal in order to humiliate the memory of peoples and provocations against Ukraine. We must get rid at last of the sickening heritage of Stalinism.

We believe that such attempts must be punished severely in compliance with the law and condemned by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the President of the state.

Congress of National Communities of Ukraine