The State Duma wants to ban the drapery of the Mavosol and return the portrait of Stalin to May 9
The State Duma of the Russian Federation will study the initiative to return the portrait of Stalin during the May 9 parade on Red Square, where US President Donald Trump and other world leaders are expected to arrive.
Speaker of the Russian Parliament Vyacheslav Volodin stated this during a meeting of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Let us, by a resolution of the State Duma, prohibit the draping of the Mausoleum during the parade on May 9, and let our current leaders of the Russian state accept the parade together with the guests at the Mausoleum. And hang a portrait of Supreme Commander-in-Chief Joseph Stalin at GUM. This will be our gratitude to our fathers and grandfathers,” suggested Communist Party member Nikolai Kharitonov.
“Let us ask that your proposal be studied by the relevant committee together with a representative of the faction, and we will return to this issue and discuss it at the State Duma council,” Volodin replied.
However, LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky categorically disagreed with this proposal.
“But we will have a holiday! I don’t really understand how you can celebrate in a cemetery? We have to sort this out somehow. You can’t: the music is thundering, people are laughing, smiling, shouting “Hurray,” and then there are the graves. What is symbolic of the collapse of the USSR, all the holidays were near the cemetery, this matter must be sorted out. And on the Mausoleum write “State Tribune”, and there should be nothing below there, except that it is used to locate officials there,” Zhirinovsky said.
He also stated that celebrating Victory Day allegedly began only under Leonid Brezhnev.
“You can hang anything on GUM, but Stalin banned it because he was ashamed, he knew how many had died, and the whole country was in ruins. And he said: no Victory Day, only June 24, 1945. Khrushchev did nothing. Brezhnev dared to do this on May 9, 1965,” the politician emphasized.
In fact, in this case, Zhirinovsky demonstrates historical ignorance and replicates a long-debunked anti-Soviet myth. In reality, under Stalin there were no prohibitions on celebrating Victory Day on May 9.
Moreover, in 1945 - 1947, May 9 was declared a non-working day. But even in subsequent years, when the day off on this day was cancelled, the authorities regularly congratulated the country on the holiday of May 9, confirmation of which easy to find in Soviet newspapers of that time.
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