Artist Selim Bensaad, grandson of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin discussed Open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The portal also reported that it plans to send a text to the Kremlin. News.ru.
Bensaad dated the letter to his great-grandfather’s birthday – Stalin was born on December 21, 1878. The artist seeks to rehabilitate the Generalissimo after his death, to legally prohibit calling him a “dictator” and a “bloody tyrant”, and also to help obtain permission to exhume the body of the ex-president of the USSR.
The great-grandson remembered that March 5, 2023 is the 70th anniversary of the death of Stalin.
“To confirm the violent version of the death of the peoples leader, he asks Vladimir Putin to help him get permission to exhume the body. Earlier, Bensaad sent a statement regarding this to the address of the Moscow Kremlin Command Service, but it was rejected,” he says.
According to the author of the appeal, he “conducted a detailed documentary investigation into the causes of his great-grandfather’s death and was convinced of the criminal element.” He believes that Stalin was “poisoned by those whom he regarded as his associates, but betrayed him”.
Bensaad concluded that he wanted “to bury the body of my great-grandfather, according to his last will, in the Novodevichy cemetery next to his wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva, with the military honor that he undoubtedly deserved.”
Alexander Yushchenko, Press Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, in an interview with socialbites.ca judicial The initiative of Stalin’s grandson “makes sense”. According to him, it is necessary to “pay tribute to those who founded the country, to those who founded the country”, but the exhumation of Stalin’s body should not be done.
“Digging graves, at the very least, goes beyond some spiritual frameworks, and at most, goes beyond moral and ethical standards. You just have to respect graves, especially in Red Square.
And it is very important to stop covering the shrine, to return the historical name of Stalingrad, which the whole world knows, including Zyuganov’s speech about it. Stalin is a man who created a nuclear missile shield, influenced world history, including the creation of an international security system, ploughing the country and leaving it with a nuclear missile shield. attempt [правнука вождя] I have not heard of it, but as a citizen, as a relative, he has an absolute right,” Yushchenko concluded.
How do the Russians assess the role of Stalin?
Most Russians believe that Stalin’s role in the Great Patriotic War is correctly and fairly evaluated today.
“Almost half of the respondents positively evaluate Stalin’s activities during the Second World War, only 7% – negatively, about a third – partly positive, partly negative.
He is known for winning the war and maintaining discipline and is accused of oppression and despotism.
Opinions on whether it is possible to get along with fewer victims were split: 35% believe it is possible to win with less losses, 37% believe it is impossible to win with fewer losses, ”says the study. Foundation “Public Opinion”.
“Repressions, executions, military errors – all these are integral features of the Stalinist image. Few Russians are ready to completely deny these facts. However, the balance of positive and negative evaluations can change,” say sociologists.
In recent years, the negative features of the image of Stalin are receding into the background before they are completely lost. “Other arguments turned out to be more important: Stalin won the war, he had order at his disposal, he lifted the country from the ruins,” says a 2021 poll.
according to data VTsIOMIn 2022, Joseph Stalin ranked in the top three among “elite personalities of the past” – 17% of respondents called him that. At the same time, he lost to Soviet leader Alexander Pushkin (21%) and Peter I (20%).