White Army General Gets Full Honors

Moscow Times ^ | Thursday, Aug. 8, 2002. Page 3

[Stavka2]

White Army General Gets Full Honors The Moscow Times

	Vladimir Filonov / MT A White supporter placing a shot of vodka on a Moscow memorial Wednesday.

About 150 people gathered in the All Saints Cathedral in Sokol on Wednesday to pay tribute to White Army General Anton Denikin in the first service for a White Army soldier in Russia. Some laid flowers on a memorial in a nearby cemetery.

Viktor Denikin, the deputy presidential envoy to the Central Federal District and a distant relative of the deceased, said at the gathering that the general's daughter Marina, who lives in France, had given her consent for the long-awaited return of his remains to Russia, RIA-Novosti reported.

He predicted the remains would one day be brought from a cemetery in New Jersey, where Anton Denikin was buried after he died 55 years ago Wednesday in exile in the United States.

Denikin was a leader in the White Army that fought against the Bolsheviks and a bete noire in Soviet times. Many to this day remain uneasy about the role the army played, which made the first ever memorial Wednesday a small but significant step toward embracing the country's past.

Sergei Zuyev, a spokesman for the Nobles' Assembly, a group of descendants of former Russian aristocrats, said after the ceremony that the assembly wants to build a chapel to commemorate Denikin and two other White leaders, Admiral Alexander Kolchak and General Pyotr Wrangel. The chapel would be placed in Alexander Garden between the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Manezh Square.

Zuyev estimated the cost of the chapel at $100,000 and was confident that the funds could be raised by White supporters in Russia and abroad.

[Stavka2]

It's about time. Time to burn the last bridges of communism off of the map and export it back to the West it's poisonous tenticals came from. Enough of it from 90 years of poison. Honor those who fought it, destory those who supported it.

Isys Voskroys

[Stavka2]

destory =distroy

[laconic]

I remember walking in Moscow several years ago with a Russian friend. We passed one of the remaining buildings with the Soviet-style appreciation plaque with Lenin's scowling puss on it built into the outer walls. I asked her what it translated to. She replied in disgust, "This is where Lenin's sister entertained the men of the Communist Party for money". A few years prior, my friend would have been sent to the Gulag for saying this in public. Russia HAS changed.

[decimon]

Does everyone know about the U.S. involvement in the Russian Revolution? The "Wolfhounds" in Siberia?

http://www.kolchak.org/History/Siberia/aef.htm

[tomahawk]

This chapel would be a hop, skip and a jump from Lenin's body. When will V.I. Ulyanov be buried?

[Snowyman]

Thanks for the link. My Grandfather was a driver/gunner with the 16th brigade Canadian Artillery fighting in the Archangel-Murmansk area. He had been gassed at Passchendale and volunteered to go to Russia believing nothing could be as bad as returning to France. The war in Europe ended in 1918 , his war continued until the summer of 1919.

When the revolution succeeded many of the western countries that had fought against the Bolsheviks decided their efforts should be down played, if not buried, in history.

[bassmaner]

bump

[decimon]

When the revolution succeeded many of the western countries that had fought against the Bolsheviks decided their efforts should be down played, if not buried, in history.

That burial was not a shallow grave. The first time I saw a reference to the U.S. contingent at Archangel-Murmansk I didn't know what to make of it. I had to do some research to fully believe it.

I sure nuff don't envy your Grandfather. Glad he made it through.

[TopQuark]

Russia HAS changed. Let's wait and see when it will become a country of laws, not men. Many a reformer tried to change Russia...