The staff of the Novosibirsk technical College of a name of Alexander Pokryshkin spoke against the installation of a bust of the President of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of Joseph Stalin, next to the school. On Wednesday, September 27, according to “Taiga.info”.
The publication quoted a letter from the Director of College Galina Calycinal the mayor of Novosibirsk Anatoly Elbow. It States that the Soviet leader was “complicated relationship” with the Marshal, in whose honor was named the school.
“Due to the real historical facts relevant to his person in society today is quite ambiguous,” said the Director.
As the newspaper notes, to install a monument to Stalin on the territory of the College was offered by the town hall. In may there was opened memorial and historical Park “Patriot” with a bust of Zhukov, Rokossovsky and Talalikhina.
In September, the sociologists of “Levada-Center” has published the findings of a survey according to which more and more Russians began to approve the erection of monuments to Joseph Stalin. Over the last 12 years the number of people approving the appearance of such monuments grew from 36 to 39 percent, and those against, on the contrary, declined from 53 to 38 percent, the researchers noted.
Soviet military leader Alexander Pokryshkin was one of the most successful fighter pilots among pilots of the anti-Hitler coalition in world war II. The first three times Hero of the Soviet Union, he was able to become a major General aviation only after Stalin’s death.