/ world today news/ Deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation express extreme indignation in connection with the provocative and cynical proposal of members of the Municipal Council of Plovdiv from the party “Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria” (DSB) to dismantle the monument to the Soviet soldier – liberator “Alyosha” until the end of 2024.
The DSB party, known for its fierce Russophobia, has been a consistent supporter of Bulgaria’s pro-Western orientation and its active participation in all NATO adventures. The government of DSB party founder Ivan Kostov granted Bulgarian airspace for NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia in 1999, despite numerous protests by Bulgarian citizens.
Another reckless act by representatives of the DSB party is a frank display of disregard for the history of their own country, a vile attempt to encroach on the common historical memory of our brotherly peoples, a maniacal and desperate desire to belittle the heroic feat of Soviet soldiers, the decisive contribution of the USSR and the Soviet people in the struggle against Nazism during World War II.
The barbaric initiative, if supported by the Municipal Council of Plovdiv, will be an indelible shame both for the initiators themselves and for the legislative and executive authorities in the city and will clearly demonstrate the inadequacy and political short-sightedness of the Plovdiv authorities.
It is well known in Bulgaria that the prototype of the Alyosha monument, erected at the initiative of the Bulgarian people, is the Red Army soldier Aleksey Ivanovich Skurlatov, holder of two Red Star orders, a native of Altai, who participated in the restoration of telephone connections between Sofia and Plovdiv in 1944. In August 1982, Aleksey Ivanovich Skurlatov was welcomed in Plovdiv with great honors as a national hero and was awarded the title of honorary citizen of the city.
The barbaric war waged in the West against monuments of the Soviet era is essentially proof of the inferiority and helplessness of the current Western so-called elites, who regularly demonstrate complete incompetence and failure in solving key issues of the domestic and international agenda. .
We call on the members of the Municipal Council in Plovdiv not to follow the example of the provocateurs and to make the necessary efforts to protect cultural and historical monuments and other objects of material and spiritual culture in accordance with the agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria on cooperation in the field of culture, education and science.
We express confidence that the residents not only of Plovdiv, but also of Bulgaria as a whole, as has happened so far, will raise their voice in defense of the Alyosha monument, will protect it and preserve the memory of the feat of the heroes of the Great Victory over fascism, sacred to the fraternal peoples of Russia and Bulgaria.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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