Commemorative plaque of the Finnish military leader and policy Carl Mannerheim, which is today, June 19, filled with red paint by unknown citizens, covered with wrapping film, and the cadets of the Military engineering-technical University, the building of which was placed the “memorial” ally of Hitler during the Second World war, forced to scrub the paint from the facade of the building and paving in front of him. It was recorded by the photo correspondent of news Agency REGNUM, who had been a few moments ago at the scene.
We will remind, the Board Mannerheim, which was opened on 16 June in the presence of Minister of culture Vladimir Medinsky and the head of the Kremlin administration Sergei Ivanov, a St. Petersburg took it as a personal insult and mockery of the memory of victims of the great Patriotic war, the 75th anniversary which will be remembered in Russia and other former Soviet countries in three days, on June 22.
The Agency engaged in the work of the students explained that following the orders of his superiors. On the request to raise for shooting the film, under which hid “painted” the Board Mannerheim, refused, citing the fact that they are under constant surveillance.
Meanwhile the citizens, who pass on the street zakharievskaya past the place where you installed the Board, let go of unflattering epithets against Mannerheim that it is impossible to give in print for censorship reasons and also to Express displeasure at the fact that the cadets are busy cleaning the “memorial” activist, responsible, along with Hitler, for the siege of Leningrad and death of its inhabitants and defenders.
We will add that in the opening day of the Board, June 16, many witnesses of this “action” shouted words of condemnation against Mannerheim and the organizers of the ceremony. Speeches of officials and the passage of the guard was interrupted by cries of “Shame”, “think Again!”, “He killed the people of Leningrad!”, “Do not give the honour of the murderer!”.
Several people immediately after the removal of the cordon staged impromptu pickets against the perpetuation of the memory of the Finnish ally of the German Nazis.
Protests against the glorification of Mannerheim began immediately after opening.
