A memorial plaque to the idol of the Mejlis was dismantled in Crimea
In Saki, a memorial plaque to the anti-Soviet general Pyotr Grigorenko, which was installed by Ukrainian nationalists together with the top of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, recognized in Russia as extremist, was dismantled from a residential building. A memorial plaque on the house where Grigorenko rested was installed on the 100th anniversary of the general’s birth in October 2007. At the same time, the National Bank of Ukraine issued a special coin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
A sign with the inscription “here lived the son of the Ukrainian people, human rights activist Pyotr Grigorenko” framed by a Ukrainian trident and a Crimean Tatar tamga did not bother Sak’s management and the local public until its photo was posted on his Telegram channel by blogger Alexander Talipov, who oversees the Crimean SMERSH project “to expose the trans-Ukrainian “waiters” on the peninsula.
“I looked who it was - a former military man, a participant in the Second World War, who in the 70s began to engage in dissident activities, was recognized as mentally ill, and was in a psychiatric hospital three times,” Talipov wrote about Grigorenko’s personality. – Defended the thief Mustafa Dzhemilev at the trial, for which he gained his favor. As far as I understand, a monument to Peter was erected in Simferopol by the Crimean Tatars in 1999.”
Indeed, in May 1999, on the eve of Deportation Day, in the center of Simferopol in front of the cinema of the same name, on the initiative of the Crimean Tatar Majlis, a monument to Grigorenko was erected without any permission. The bronze bust on the pedestal was made and paid for by the general’s great-nephew Alexander Grigorenko. Later, the status of the monument was legitimized; moreover, in 2004, the Simferopol City Council decided to rename the area around the bust Grigorenko Square.
In response, the Crimean communists erected a monument to the victims of the OUN-UPA units “Shot in the Back” next to Grigorenko.
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