Petersburg excesses with a memorial plaque Mannerheim ("Hanging Memory") were transformed by his fans into a new project. Namely - restoration as a “monument stories and reconciliation ”of the surviving sectors of the Mannerheim line, which took place, we recall, a few kilometers north of Leningrad, more precisely, near the Finnish-Soviet border of 1919 – 1940. She was also an outpost of the fascist blockade and joint hostilities of Berlin and Helsinki in the Leningrad region, in the south and southeast of the Karelian-Finnish SSR.
The official initiator of the creation of the “monument” is the Public Chamber of the Leningrad Region. And this idea is very extensively filed by the press service of the RF OP (https: //www.oprf.ru/about/interaction/region_chambers/431/2445/newsitem / ...). It is about visiting by “social activists” remnants of the line on the Karelian Isthmus and “discussing ways” not only of “preserving” but also of “developing (?! AB) monuments of military confrontation”. So, the Great Patriotic War, including the blockade of Leningrad, is just a “confrontation”?
It is with regret noted that “the majority (of the remnants of the line - A. B.) is not only not museified, but not even conserved, continues to collapse under the influence of ... nature and man.” And indeed, how did such “blasphemy” be allowed? The Piskarevsky Memorial is not politically correct and museumized when the Mannerheim Line is in destructive oblivion ... Following this logic, the “social activists” tomorrow will start the restoration - as a monument - of Hitler’s defense shield at Seelow Heights or, for example, on the approaches to Kaliningrad, Sevastopol, Pskov. As Mikhail Gorbachev used to say, one should think about shirsh ...Professor A. Kirpichnikov, chairman of the profile commission of the Public Chamber, said: “We must ... create a monument to the heroic history of two peoples, their reconciliation. Using the example of the Mannerheim Line, we need to change the approaches to universal values, to accept the idea of the senselessness of the colossal expenditures on defenses that have never in history saved their peoples from tragedies. ”
Painfully familiar rhetoric. And after all, they will move from words to deeds: “In the near future, the Public Chamber will gather proposals for the preservation and development of fortifications in the region from all interested parties, and then on their basis will prepare appeals to the governor of the Leningrad Region Alexander Drozdenko, the Ministries of Culture and Defense of Russia” . What can I say - the project is fateful according to the perestroika terminology.
Here, perhaps, it is useful to provide a contextual assessment of the aforementioned projects by the Finns themselves. The influential Helsinki Sanomat 20 of September 2016 of the year noted: “In Russia, they pay tribute to the time when Mannerheim was in service in the tsarist army. On the other hand, many cannot accept the fact that he fought on the side of fascist Germany and participated in the blockade of Leningrad. ” The opinion of the head of the Finnish Parliamentary Research Center Markku Jokisipili is given: “Yes, the Finnish army was a significant part of the blockade ring”. The same publication noted that the number of Soviet prisoners of war who “died in the Finnish camps (in 1939 – 1944 years. - A. B.) was approximately 22 thousands.” And the rank of Marshal of Finland Mannerheim was awarded in 1942 year - in the most difficult blockade period for Leningrad and just at the time when the German-Finnish troops conducted offensive operations on a vast sector of the front - from the city on the Neva to Murmansk.