Posted on 12/19/2020 6:58:16 PM PST by marshmallow
A petition has appeared online for citizens of Rostov-on-Don to vote for authorities to officially consider replacing a monument to Vladimir Lenin on the central city square with a monument to the Royal Martyr Tsar Nicholas II.
The petition, published on the Active Rostovite site of the Rostov-on-Don city administration, also calls for the historical names to be restored to all city streets.
The initiative was published on December 11, and has received considerable attention in the local media.
“In order to restore historical justice, I propose to return the pre-revolutionary names to all city streets existing today; to rename Lenin Street and Square to Emperor Nicholas II; to remove the monument to Lenin from the square and replace it with a monument to the most august family of the last Russian emperor, which was martyred by order of the God-fighting leaders,” the petition reads.
Voting on the site will continue for 3 months. If the initiative finds the support of 500 citizens, it will be considered by the authorities. However, at the time of writing, there are 77 votes against the initiative, and only 44 in favor. Comments left by visitors to the site show that, unfortunately, many people still the soviet propaganda about Tsar Nicholas.
The Rostov-on-Don petition was perhaps inspired by the city of Tarusa in the Kaluga Province, where in October the city council accepted the proposal of the regional administration to rename 16 streets, replacing the ideological soviet names with their historical, pre-revolutionary names.
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Seattle will gladly buy it. Their one Lenin monument is lonely.
Hitler marched 22,000 Jews to the edge of their city and executed them. Men, women, and children were shot.
My first thought was Seattle.
Good. High time truth was heard and justice restored.
We have some Robert E Lee statuary, available at a reasonable price.
Tsar Nicholas being murdered by the Communists doesn't wipe the slate clean. His blunders in 1914 contributed to the outbreak of World War I, which brought immense suffering and millions of deaths both to Russia and to other countries. Did Nicholas II make any effort to prevent pogroms against his Jewish subjects? He may have been less bad than some of the earlier tsars but that doesn't necessarily make him someone to be admired.
Dude...he was summarily shot as well as his wife, children and other attendant and hapless individuals. The takeover by the communists resulted in the deaths of over 30 million innocent Russians. Perspective is everything.
The vandals shoulda used red paint. Then it would look like lenin is covered with blood.
It woulda been more appropriate.
The Seattle Lenin statue has been painted red.
well, that’s appropriate. COVERED in blood.
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