To open the Russian Aggression Museum in Gori, Georgia’s authorities are ready to remove the Stalin Monument from the central square.
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Stalin House to Counter Russia’s Aggression
Georgia’s Culture, Monument Protection and Sport Minister Nika Vacheishvili announced yesterday the establishment of Russia’s Aggression Museum. It will be located in Gori and become a part of the Stalin House-Museum.
Georgia’s National Museum is displaying permanent exposition dedicated to Georgia’s occupation by Soviet Russia in 1921 and to subsequent victimization of Georgia’s nobility, peasantry and intellectuals for four years already. In Tbilisi, however, they decided that the exhibition covers a limited period of Russia-Georgia relations.
The museum of Russia’s aggression will be a part of the exhibit display offered by the Stalin House-Museum in Gori. Of all Georgia’s towns, Gori was chosen not only because it suffered more than others during the August events. More likely than not, the general idea will be that Russia’s aggression against Georgia continued the aggressive expansionary policy of Stalin.
In this undertaking, the museum experts of Georgia count on assistance of their colleagues in Poland and the Baltic states, saying such museums exist worldwide, especially in Europe.
One of the exhibits of the museum could be the Monument to Josef Stalin, which is seen in downtown Gori. The authorities intend to move the monument from the central square to the museum, specifying, however, that the issue will be decided with regard to opinion of Gori residents.
The thing is that the authorities attempted to demolish the monument in 1989, but thousands of Gori residents closed the ranks to defend it.
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All the Article in Russian as of Sep. 26, 2008
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