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The bust of Cossack Colonel Timofey Sladkov in the Orenburg region will be demolished. The bust was installed on the street of Vasily Chapaev, whose division Sladkov defeated in 1919.
This was reported by the ProOren website, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The decision to dismantle the monument was made by the Council of Deputies of the village of Krasnoye, where it was installed. The people's representatives decided to discuss this topic after a collective appeal from the village residents. In it, Krasnovites expressed their dissatisfaction with the installation of the monument and emphasized that no one asked their opinion on this matter.
Six of the seven deputies present supported this idea. Now the head of the municipality, Gennady Kuleshov, has 10 days to implement the decision of the Council of Deputies.
“In October last year, our head of the village council signed a resolution on planning the installation of memorial plaques and memorial signs in the municipality. We found several violations of this resolution at once,” said deputy Nikolai Okshin.
Ataman of the Verkhneuralsk department of the Ural Cossack Society Sergei Tyshchenko sees no reason to dismantle the bust.
“No political calls were made at the opening of the bust. By casting the hero in bronze, we paid tribute to him and honored his memory,” said Tyshchenko.
The monument to Sladkov was created with donations. The initiator of the appearance of the monument was the Orenburg Military Cossack Society (OVKO).
The colonel's grandson Ivan Sladkov, who lives in France, sent a letter of welcome and thanked the organizers of the installation of the bust. But the granddaughter of division commander Chapaev Tatyana was indignant.
On September 5, 1919, a group under the command of Sladkov attacked Lbischensk, where the command of the 25th division led by Chapaev was destroyed. But already in December 1919, the 1st Ural Corps, of which Sladkov was temporarily acting, actually ceased to exist. Subsequently, Sladkov lived in France, where he died in 1956.
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