Crimea wants to take the dismantled monument to Stalin from Georgia
Crimean social activist and host of the “Actually” program Sergei Veselovsky took the initiative to raise funds to deliver to the peninsula a monument to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin from his hometown of Gori, which was dismantled during the presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili in 2010.
Veselovsky’s idea was supported by the editor-in-chief of the Gruzinform news agency, Arno Khidirbegishvili.
He addressed an open letter to the authorities, proposing that “the Georgian government officially formalize the sale or gratuitous transfer of an ownerless Stalin sculpture to the Russian side in order to undergo all procedures provided for by law, including customs, necessary for its transportation to the Russian Federation.”
“We look forward with hope to a positive response from the Georgian authorities, after which we will know the cost of transportation and announce the collection of voluntary donations from everyone who honors our history not in words but in deeds,” Veselovsky commented.
According to him, if Tbilisi agrees to give up the monument, the delivery of the monument to Crimea will be turned into a “patriotic action “Stalin returns.”
“Simply ordering delivery to the port, crossing the Black Sea and bringing it to your destination is boring and does not carry any informational and patriotic load. In short, the plan is as follows. Rent an orange KAMAZ (like Putin’s) with an extended wheelbase (the length of the monument is six meters). Decorate it along the entire façade accordingly... Drive this Stalinist KAMAZ to Gori, going live on the road... Broadcast the loading of the monument on board and meetings with city residents along the route from Georgia to Russia through South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Krasnodar Territory ... In general, if you wish, you can organize a real patriotic action “Stalin returns” out of ordinary transportation,” Veselovsky explained his plan.
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