Public opinion in Moscow is increasingly inclined towards the return of Dzerzhinsky
More than half of Muscovites (51%) have a positive attitude towards the return of the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky to Lubyanka. Against 26%.
This is evidenced by polling data conducted by the foreign agent organization Levada Center, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Among supporters of the return of the monument, about 23% explain their opinion on this issue by sympathy for the personality of Dzerzhinsky himself. About half said that it is necessary to preserve the memory of the past. For them, returning the monument is an act of restoring historical justice. Another 18% explained their opinion by the fact that the Dzerzhinsky monument already stood on Lubyanka Square.
For those who oppose the monument, the main argument is the participation of Dzerzhinsky and the Cheka/GPU/KGB he founded in the repressions (44% of responses received).
The attitude of Muscovites towards the monument has remained virtually unchanged over the past 5 years since the previous survey on this topic. However, over a long horizon of 15-20 years, one can see how public opinion in the capital and throughout the country as a whole was increasingly inclined in favor of returning the monument.
After the failure of the State Emergency Committee putsch in 1991, the monument to Dzerzhinsky on the square that then bore his name was illegally demolished by revolutionary liberal crowds. Now it is located in Muzeon Park on Krymsky Val, where many sculptures of Soviet-era figures were brought in the 90s.
In February, a vote was organized on the Moscow website “Active Citizen”. Muscovites were asked to choose between Dzerzhinsky and Alexander Nevsky. In just two days, 300 thousand people voted, Nevsky was in the lead by a small margin. After this, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin stopped the voting, citing the fact that it was causing a split in society.
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