We will remove it when we return Crimea - Shukhevych about the monument to the leaders of the Big Three
Kyiv, February 09 (PolitNavigator, Kirill Boyarin) – After the return of Crimea to Ukraine, the fate of the monument to the leaders of the Big Three will have to be decided; Stalin has no place in Livadia.
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People's Deputy from the "Radical Party" Yuri Shukhevych told PolitNavigator about this, commenting on the opening of the monument.
“In general, I believe that monuments to such odious figures as Stalin should not be erected anywhere. But we understand that Crimea is no longer under our control. This is a controversial issue, since in Yalta a monument was erected not only to Stalin, but to the leaders of the Big Three, who held a conference in Crimea. That is, if you remove it, then the whole complex, and, after all, there are also monuments to Churchill and Roosevelt, the leaders of Great Britain and America. This could cause a negative reaction from our allies. But I would like to remove it when we restore control over Crimea. Stalin has no place there,” the agency’s interlocutor said.
Let us recall that the opening of the monument to the leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition last Thursday caused a flurry of criticism from the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars and its supporters in Crimea and Ukraine. A member of the Bakhchisaray Majlis, a former high-ranking Ukrainian official, Ilmi Umerov, advised the Russian authorities to erect a monument in Moscow to the Crimean Tatar Khan Islyam-Girey, who twice raided and burned this city.
We'll clean it up when we get Crimea back – Shukhevych on the monument to the leaders of the "Big Three"