A monument to Stalin was unveiled on the territory of the Mikron plant in the Pskov region. This is not the first monument to Stalin unveiled in 2023. On February 1, a monument to the leader appeared in Volgograd. The opening of such monuments is not without collisions: the Volgograd monument was erected 120 meters from the memorial to the victims of political repression.
The anthem of the Kuban is a patriotic song that was written in 1918 by Nikolai Ryabovol, a Kuban politician and public figure. He was the chairman of the Kuban Legislative Council and the Kuban People's Republic, a state formation on the territory of the former Kuban region and the Kuban Cossack army. The anthem of the Kuban reflects the idea of self-determination of the Kuban people and their commitment to the Ukrainian national idea. The song has four verses and a chorus that repeats the phrase: "Kuban, Kuban, Kuban is ours!".
105 years ago, on January 24, 1919, the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) issued a circular instruction. It went down in history as the "Directive on the Cossacks". January 24, 2023 reminds of the terrible pages in the history of the Cossacks in the Kuban.
"Carry out mass terror"
Every year on January 24, the Kuban honors the memory and holds mourning events dedicated to the memory of the Cossacks who became victims of political repression against the Cossacks. The foundations of the repressive policy of the Soviet government in relation to the Cossacks were determined by the secret circular instruction "To all responsible comrades working in the Cossack regions" signed by Y.M. Sverdlov, adopted on this January day in 1919 by the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party.
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For this purpose, more than 20 monuments to Stalin have been erected in Russia over the past 100 years. Memorials were also erected in 2023
More than 100 years ago, the Russian Federation prevented the accession of the Kuban People's Republic to Ukraine on federal terms: the result was starvation, torture and extermination of 15 million Ukrainians
100 years before the annexation of Crimea and Donbas by the Russian Federation, the Bolsheviks "squeezed" the Ukrainian Kuban. These events became the starting point for the start of the Red Terror, the destruction of millions of Ukrainians and the Holodomors. Dmitry Snegirev, military expert, co-chairman of the Right Cause State Institute, spoke about the moment in time that could radically change the map of Europe and the course of Ukrainian history.
" I would like to draw the attention of readers to an outstanding event in the history of Ukraine (for some reason, this event is now almost not advertised) - in the early summer of 1918, Ukrainian-Kuban negotiations were held in Kiev on the annexation of the Kuban on federal terms to Ukraine ", - so he begins his story.
According to him, representatives of the then Ukrainian government imagined the Kuban as an autonomous or at least a federal part of Ukraine; members of the Kuban delegation insisted on a federal connection.
The Kuban Republic included the Kuban region, Stavropol, Terek, Dagestan and Chernomorshchina (Black Sea province).