R.P.Ts.
CONFIRMS THAT
CHIEF CHURCH OF ARMED FORCES DECORATED WITH MOSAIC WITH IMAGES
OF PUTIN AND
STALIN
The
frescos also
include speakers of both chambers of parliament, the current and
former head of
the F.S.B., and also the commander of the General Staff.
Archpriest Leonid
Kalinin explained for Echo of Moscow why such images have been
placed in the
church.
"There
are
depicted those persons who participated immediately in the
decision about the
annexation of Crimea. At the same time, they are depicted among
a crowd of
people, since they represented the opinion of the nation and the
wish of the
people of Crimea, which is not disputed even by opponents of the
annexation of
Crimea," he said.
Archpriest
Leonid
Kalinin noted that the decision to depict the first persons of
the state was
made by the artistic council.
"But the
composition 'Parade of Victory' was created authentically on the
basis of
historical photographs, where in the background one of the
soldiers is holding
in his hands a portrait of the Supreme Commander of the Soviet
Army in
1941-1945. That was Joseph Stalin, and thus he is depicted there
exclusively in
the background and as only one of the portraits," he explained.
Also
included in
these frescoes are the chair of the Federation Council,
Valentina Matvienko;
the chair of the State Duma, Viacheslav Volodin; the secretary
of the Security
Council, Nikolai Patrishev; the director of the F.S.B.,
Alexander Bortnikov;
and the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Valery
Gerasimov.
The
chief church of
the armed forces in the suburban Moscow park "Patriot" is
supposed to
open on 9 May. (tr. by PDS, posted 24 April 2020)
CHIEF
CHURCH OF
DEFENSE MINISTRY DECORATED WITH MOSAICS WITH PUTIN, SHOIGU, AND
STALIN
The
publication
"MBKh Media" published photographs of unfinished mosaics that
will be
applied to the walls of the chief church of the Russian Armed
Forces in the
Kubinka suburb of Moscow. The pictures were sent by an anonymous
subscriber of
the publication's Telegram account.
In
particular, in one
of the photos it is possible to make out the images of Russian
President
Vladimir Putin; the minister of defense, Sergei Shoigu; the head
of the
Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko; the chair of the State
Duma,
Viacheslav Volodin; the secretary of the Security Council,
Nikolai Patrishev;
and the director of the F.S.B., Alexander Bortnikov.
Another
mosaic
depicts the Parade of Victory on Red Square in 1945. In it,
along with officers
and soldiers, is seen a portrait of Joseph Stalin. Also on one
of the panels is
visible the slogan "Crimea is Ours."
The
chief church of
the Russian Armed Forces will be located on the territory of the
park
"Patriot" in Kubinka. Its opening is planned for 9 May 2020. The
building is 95 meters tall, which will make it the third tallest
Orthodox
church building in the world.
Construction
of the
church cost almost six billion rubles. Half of this sum consists
of donations,
and the remaining funds were allocated by the governments of
Moscow and the
Moscow region.
Update:
a member of
the patriarchal Council on Culture, Archpriest Leonid
Kalinin, confirmed that
the compositions "Bloodless Unification of Crimea" and
"Parade
of Victory" will be on the walls of the church of the
Ministry of Defense.
The former will include "persons who were immediately
involved in the
decision on the unification of Crimea," and the second will
include
Stalin. "The Artistic Council considers these images
absolutely
appropriate, representing historical truth, from which one
cannot tear out
pages arbitrarily as it is impossible to dismantle the
history of our
state," Kalinin declared in a conversation with radio
station "Moscow
Speaking."
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