Schoolchildren from Tskhinvali registered for damaging Stalin monument
Three schoolchildren damaged the Stalin monument in Tskhinvali; they have been registered with the juvenile affairs department.
As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, the monument to Joseph Stalin was installed in June near a bakery in Tskhinvali on the initiative of the enterprise's director. A month after the monument appeared, unknown individuals smashed the face of the monument.
The vandals who tore off the nose and eye of the monument were high school students, "Sapa Tskhinval" reported, citing a source. According to the source, the three teenagers were talking about Stalin's activities and at some point the schoolchildren decided that the leader "deserved retribution." All the young men have been registered with the juvenile affairs department. Two of them are eleventh-graders, and the third teenager is a grade below them, the publication says.
The South Ossetian Ministry of Internal Affairs did not report on its website the results of the search for the vandals, but in a July 24 report on the damage to the monument, it was stated that, according to preliminary data, "the sculpture was damaged by three young people."
Under Stalin, mass arrests, deportations, and executions were carried out on the basis of nationality, and entire nations were declared "hostile," according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "10 myths about Stalin's role in the Great Patriotic War."
Among the residents of the North Caucasus republics, Joseph Stalin is revered by those who erroneously associates with it the concept of "social justice", which they despaired of getting from the current authorities, historians interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" noted earlier.
As "Caucasian Knot" wrote, the bust of Stalin was installed on the street of the same name in the village of Nart in the Ardon district on the initiative of a local resident. Representatives of local authorities and schoolchildren attended the opening of the bust. Local authorities explained the installation of the bust by the desire of the villagers to preserve the memory of a significant historical figure.
Recall that on April 29, 2021, a bust of Joseph Stalin on a pedestal was installed in Dagestanskiye Ogni. On May 2, it became known that the bust, along with the plaque, was dismantled - only an empty pedestal remained in the place where the monument was installed. The head of the city, Jalalutdin Alirzayev, reported that the bust of Stalin was dismantled because it was installed by local communists without permission from the authorities.
The communists who installed the bust of Stalin showed disrespect to the repressed peoples of the Caucasus, Internet users said at the time. Their opponents, in turn, recalled Stalin's role during the war.
Recall that in 2022, historian and member of the Association of Russian Society Researchers Boris Sokolov told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the decision on which peoples to repress depended directly on Stalin.
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