/ world today news/ In Rostov-on-Don, the monument to General Wrangel was dismantled – it was placed on the territory of the cadet corps only three weeks ago, but protests from the left and communists immediately began, and now the regional authorities decided to remove the bust of the “Black Baron” . The CPRF called the dismantling “absolutely correct”, which, of course, is complete nonsense and a shame. Because the small bust was erected not by the authorities, but by the local public, who have the same right to their views on Russian history as the communists. The CPRF doesn’t want Lenin’s monuments to be torn down, does it? There are thousands of them in the country, but why then is it necessary to interfere with the attempt to honor the memory of one of the leaders of the White Guards, whose life is connected with Rostov?
In addition, there is only one monument to Wrangel in Russia – it was discovered only seven years ago in the Crimean Kerch near an Orthodox church. Crimea became the last stronghold of the White Guards, and from there, after losing the Civil War, they left Russia. That day, by the way, it was in the Crimea, in Sevastopol, that a hurricane damaged the monument to the “Sons of Russia who fought in the Civil War”, erected last year. The figure of the Red Army man fell, but that of the White Guard remained upright. There is a certain mysticism in this, moreover, the fall of the red fighter happened after it became clear that in Rostov things were moving towards the demolition of the bust of Wrangel (it was covered with foil). But the figure of the Red Army soldier will, of course, be restored, because the meaning of the monument in Sevastopol is precisely the reconciliation of the two sides of the Civil War, the end of the unrest. But the bust in Rostov will not be returned to its place, because for some of our citizens the baron is an “executioner, bloodthirsty, traitor.” So maybe there was no need to anger or provoke them, especially since the bust was unveiled on November 7?
But this logic is flawed because it means: we are not seeking reconciliation, we are still choosing one side of the strife that ended a century ago. That is, the government indulges some views of our history and pushes others into the shadows. But this already happened in the Soviet years, and how did it end? The fact that with the beginning of Perestroika, the exposure of Stalin’s dirty deeds (fictitious and real) undermined the entire ideological basis of the Communist Party, which in itself made him a “figure of silence”. Almost the same as Emperor Nicholas II and Baron Wrangel were in the Soviet years – it was only allowed to revile and denounce them. Has anything changed now?
Not quite, if such passions are heated against the modest bust of the last commander-in-chief of the White Guards. To denounce the baron, they even use a quote from one of his comrades, who wrote in August 1941: if Peter Wrangel were alive, then “he would have gone with the Germans without hesitation.” But without mentioning the fact that Wrangel died in 1928, the vast majority of white generals – for all their hatred of the Bolsheviks – did not cooperate with Hitler.
But the hatred of the current heirs of the Bolsheviks to the baron causes deep regret and bewilderment. Who else are they fighting with? The descendants of the whites have long died, of the Cossacks who fought with the reds, almost nothing remains – so what do the detractors of the “executioner and murderer” hate so much? Is it just a specific Baron Wrangel?
Of course not. The bust of Wrangel is installed on the territory of the Second Don Cadet School, which bears the name of Emperor Nicholas II. The canonized tsarist general is still called “bloody” by some successors to the Bolsheviks, even though the Reds have blood on their hands. But it is not so convenient to oppose the monuments of Nicholas II, of which there are already several in the country (although there were attempts to destroy them). So they get it on the barons and generals. So, if you give your will – with a seemingly good intention not to “inflame”, not to anger this part of society – then tomorrow the school in Rostov will be renamed, and the monuments to the emperor will be torn down.
No one wants to anger the “reds” – on the contrary, the majority of the modern left is not only patriotic, but also does not want to offend its “white” opponents. But no one has the right to prohibit our citizens from honoring the memory of those they consider heroes. The civil war is over – and Baron Wrangel, and Dzerzhinsky, and Emperor Nicholas II, and Lenin have become part of our common history. It is wrong and impossible to separate them – and extremely dangerous to even try to do so.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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