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Russias Putin orders Stalingrad on tomb PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Saturday, 24 July 2004
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered that the name of Volgograd be removed from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and replaced with the city's previous name, Stalingrad. The measure echoes other symbolic decisions Putin has made in recent years, including resurrecting the music of the old Soviet national anthem and reinstating the Soviet-era red star as the Russian military's emblem.

The move is aimed at "commemorating the fundamental turning point" of World War II, Putin said in the order.

The battle that ended on Feb. 2, 1943, with German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus' surrender, killed about 1 million Soviet soldiers and civilians. The defeat crushed the Nazi drive to isolate the Soviet heartland from the southern oil fields, and the battle remains a powerful symbol of Soviet courage and perseverance.

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, located just outside the Kremlin walls, was dedicated in 1967 and features an eternal flame and a series of polished stone blocks honoring the major Russian battles of World War II, among them Volgograd - which Stalingrad was renamed as in 1961.

Nationalists and veterans have long argued that the city's name should be returned to Stalingrad to pay tribute to those who died defending it.

Originally called Tsaritsyn, the city became Stalingrad in 1925 in honor of the Soviet dictator.

Putin's attitude about Soviet-era trappings is in sharp contrast with the policy of his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, who disdained the symbols and resisted hardliners' pressure to restore the old anthem.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Russia%20Putin%20Stalingrad
 
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