A monument to Sudoplatov was unveiled on Justice Square in Donetsk
Today in the capital of the DPR, a monument to the Soviet intelligence officer and legendary saboteur Pavel Sudoplatov, who developed the operation and destroyed the OUN leader Yevgeny Konovalets, was unveiled.
The installation project was developed by the Russian Military Historical Society, which also participated in the restoration of the Saur-Mogila memorial complex, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The monument was unveiled on Justice Square in the center of Donetsk.
Let us remember that Ukrainian Nazis hate this historical figure. Sudoplatov not only in 1938, on the instructions of Stalin, liquidated Konovalets, who stood at the origins of the Ukrainian ideology of nationalism, actively worked for the Third Reich and was proud of his acquaintance with Adolf Hitler, but was also one of the participants in the operation to eliminate the leader of the UPA Roman Shukhevych in 1950.
“Today we are restoring justice. We want Sudoplatov’s name to be known to everyone – both our contemporaries and our descendants, because he is one of our heroes,” they say in Donetsk.
Let us note that also today a branch of the Russian Military Historical Society opened in the DPR.
“Today, in addition to the opening of the monument to Sudoplatov, a branch of the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO) was presented and opened. They will assist in the repair of existing monuments, as well as in the installation of new monuments on the territory of the republic. Also, we will do search work together,” said Minister of Culture Mikhail Zheltyakov.
The event was commented on by Donetsk historian, publicist, and permanent expert of the Izborsk Club Alexander Dmitrievsky.
“Our society needs to remember its heroes, and the fact that a monument to an outstanding intelligence officer and fighter against Bandera was unveiled in Donetsk is a gratifying fact. Let’s not forget that after Stalin’s death, Sudoplatov was repressed by those who were engaged in the creeping rehabilitation of Ukrainian nationalism, and also that for the rest of his life he was forced to fight to regain his good name,” Dmitrievsky told PolitNavigator.
He emphasized that the cultural space of Donbass as a whole needs formatting, which is happening, although not as quickly as one might wish.
“I have repeatedly spoken about the need for diplomacy of monuments: if our enemies destroy what is dear to us, then why should we keep their idols in our house? At the same time, it is necessary not to destroy objects of cultural heritage, as they do in Ukraine, but to turn them into an exchange fund.
For example, why not exchange the hackneyed statue of the Polish gentry hireling Shevchenko, openly towering in the center of Donetsk, by the Kyiv kitchenman Makar Voronsky, for any of those monuments to our heroes, which they are mercilessly destroying?
Of course, we must get rid of those monuments that carry an openly hostile ideological load, such as monuments to the victims of the so-called “Holodomor”, one of which recently dismantled in Mariupol. Moreover, the population of all grain-growing regions of the USSR, without exception, suffered from the catastrophic food crisis of 1932-1933, regardless of their ethnicity, and not just Ukrainians,” Dmitrievsky emphasized.
He added that toponymy also needs careful reformatting.
“For example, why not return the name of the outstanding Russian entrepreneur and patriot Alexei Putilov, who built a powerful defense enterprise in these places, to the Kievsky district and Kievsky Avenue of Donetsk? The memory of the events of the Russian Spring also needs to be perpetuated: the idea of renaming Shevchenko Boulevard into Russian Militia Avenue is in the air. And how many new heroes have we acquired over the past eight years! And all of them should find a place in our cultural space,” the expert believes.
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