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Poem “To the slanderers of Russia” removed from Pushkin’s bust in Mahilyou

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The poem about crushing of the uprising in 1830 insulted Belarusians.

As Radio Svaboda was informed by dwellers of Mahilyou, the plaque with the lines of the poem “To the Slanderers of Russia” was demounted from the bust of Alexander Pushkin, which had been presented to the city by the Foundation “The Walk of Russia’s Fame” from Kuban, Russia.

The leader of the project “The Walk of Russia’s Fame”, Mikhail Serdyukov сsaid he hadn’t intended to insult Belarusians by the poem of Pushkin dedicated to suppression of the November Uprising of 1830–31.

“Sincerely, I was not aware of what this poem is related to historically. But in general, I do not divide Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians. As a common Russian, I believed that this poem was aimed against enemies, who had attacked the Russian state. Who are enemies? At the present point of time they are those who are provoking in Luhansk and Donetsk. And in a wider sense they include Hitler, Napoleon», - Serdyukov said.

We remind that the specific occasion of the poem’s creation by Alexander Pushkin was a speech of deputies in the French Parliament urging to start military intervention to the hostilities on the side of insurgents against the Russian army.

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