APPEAL
left-patriotic organizations of Belarus, which formed the Coordination Council “UNITY”, to the public of the Republic of Belarus on perpetuating the memory of I.V. Stalin in the capital, the hero-city of Minsk and other cities of Belarus to the 140th anniversary of his birth
President of the Republic of Belarus
A.G. Lukashenko
Dear Alexander Grigoyevich.!
A year later, on December 21, 2019, the 140th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, an outstanding figure of the Soviet state, who made an enormous positive contribution to the fate of the people of Belarus, will be 140 years old. All progressive humanity will celebrate this anniversary date, paying tribute to the memory of the greatest figure of the XX century.
I.V. Stalin was one of the organizers of the October Revolution of 1917 in the former bourgeois-landlord Russia. November 7 is a day that is rightfully a public holiday in the Republic of Belarus. Thanks to this event, the Belarusian people for the first time in their history acquired their own statehood. A hundred years ago (January 1, 1919) of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic, the People’s Commissar for Nationalities of the Soviet Government, I.V. Stalin.
Held on the initiative of I.V. Stalin's industrialization, collectivization and cultural revolution turned the BSSR into a developed agro-industrial state with a high national culture and science, with steady social progress.
The name I.V. Stalin is inextricably linked with the most important event in the history of the Belarusian people - the reunification of Western Belarus with the BSSR.
The leadsership of I.V. Stalin’s party and state during the Nazi invasion was one of the decisive factors in the Victory of the Soviet people, including the people of Belarus, in the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany. This Great Victory saved the Belarusian people from fascist enslavement and destruction, allowed to restore the Belarusian statehood.
In the postwar period, I.V. Stalin mobilized the resources of a vast country for comprehensive assistance to the Belarusian people in the reconstruction and development of the national economy, culture and social sphere of the republic.
Thanks to the initiative of I.V. Stalin, BSSR became a member of the UN.
By personal order I.V. Stalin in the postwar period in the republic built such industrial giants as the Minsk Tractor and Minsk Automobile Plants, as well as other enterprises, which still form the foundation of the Belarusian economy.
As directed by I.V. Stalin was given fraternal assistance from the entire Soviet people in restoring the capital of the republic of Minsk, which was raised from the ruins and then turned into one of the best metropolitan cities in Europe.
To date, all malicious insinuations aimed at demonizing the personality of I.V. Stalin and the discrediting of his activities, the objective research of conscientious scientists exposed, including the myth of the so-called. "Stalinist repression".
Progressive people of Belarus on a full basis have long demanded the just restoration of the name of I.V. Stalin as an outstanding figure of the twentieth century. Currently, the popularity of the personality of I.V. Stalin is growing not only in the territory of the former USSR, but throughout the world, as evidenced by the presence of the name of Stalin in the toponymy of many countries.
More recently, on December 1, 2018, in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur in allied Russia, the busts of I.V. Stalin were installed in a solemn atmosphere. Stalin and the Marshals of Victory. Unfortunately, Belarus, including the metropolitan administration, despite repeated appeals to it, are acting to the contrary on this issue despite the world trend.
In our appeal to the address of the Minsk City Executive Committee and the Ministry of Culture, it was emphasized: “With the restoration of the monument to I.V. Stalin in the capital of the Republic of Belarus, the hero-city of Minsk, will be finished with the lies of anti-Stalinism, the truth will triumph, the violation of which has caused tremendous damage to all Soviet people, including citizens of the Republic of Belarus.”
In connection with the approach of the 140th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding figure of the twentieth century, the leader and organizer of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War, who played an extremely positive role in the fate of the Belarusian people, we appeal to you, Alexander Grigorievich, and as President, as a professional historian with the following suggestions:
- to hold state events dedicated to the 140th anniversary of the birth of I.V. Stalin;
- to lay a monument to Generalissimo I.V.Stalin in the capital of the Republic of Belarus on one of the avenues or on one of the squares of the hero-city of Minsk, giving them a name in honor of I.V. Stalin;
- replace the name “Volgograd” on the pedestal of the gallery of the hero-cities at the Victory Monument on Victory Square in Minsk with the word “Stalingrad”, as it was long ago done in Moscow at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall;
- create a museum of I.V. Stalin in the city-hero of Minsk as a branch of the State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War, and in the museum itself set a monument to Geralissimo I.V. Stalin in full growth;
- to oblige the leaders of the Stalin Line Historical and Cultural Complex to install the bust of I.V. Stalin on a pedestal, as it was before;
- oblige regional executive committees of the Republic of Belarus to reflect the name of I.V. Stalin in the toponymy of large cities.
We are confident that these measures will find a benevolent response from the majority of citizens of the republic, will contribute to uprooting the germs of Nazism cultivated by the enemies of the republic in order to destroy our Belarus as they destroy Ukraine today, and will make a significant contribution to the patriotic education of young people.
By order of the participants, laying flowers to the bust of I.V. Stalin at the ECC " Stalin Line" the text was signed by the leaders of the left-patriotic organizations of Belarus, which formed the Coordination Council "UNITY":
V.B. Zelikov, chairman
Republican Civil
Committee of the Patriotic
Public Association
"Fatherland"
V.V. Draco, chairman of the Republican
council of public association
"For democracy, social progress and justice", deputy of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus on the first convocation, Chairman of the International public association "For the Motherland! For Stalin!"
L.E. Shkolnikov, secretary-coordinator
Republican public association "For the Union and the Communist Party of the Union"
G.I. Simanovsky, secretary
Coordination Council
of the left-patriotic organizations of Belarus "UNITY"
Minsk, 12/21/2018
