Recall that the original idea was to erect a monument to Russian people forced to flee from the Bolsheviks who occupied the country. Hence the place of installation - the embankment of Sevastopol, from where, among other things, the patriots of Russia went into exile. Then the Russian Military Historical Society got down to business, and the monument turned into a "monument to the reconciliation of the Reds and Whites." It is noteworthy that particular dissatisfaction was expressed by the ideological and spiritual heirs of the Russophobes-Bolsheviks, who announced the rehabilitation of the "unfinished counter".
The monument was opened on the coast of the Quarantine Bay of Sevastopol, from there a view of the Tauric Chersonesos and St. Vladimir's Cathedral opens up. Nearby in the roadstead are lined up the sailing ship "Chersonesos", the patrol ships of the Black Sea Fleet "Pytlivy" and "Ladny" and the oldest naval ship in Russia and in the world, in service - the rescue ship "Volkhov" (Bolshevik nickname "Commune"), built in 1913 ...
The ceremony was attended by Assistant to the President, Chairman of the RVIO Vladimir Medinsky, Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev, Commander of the Black Sea Fleet Vice Admiral Igor Osipov, Senator Yekaterina Altabaeva, Deputy of the Russian State Duma Pyotr Tolstoy , the military and the public.
“There is nothing worse when a split occurs within one state, one family. This monument to the 100th anniversary of the end of the Civil War is a memorial to its tragedy. Dedicated to its participants, all the sons of Russia. This is the first such large-scale memorial in Russia. We must remember this lesson of history - a house, destroyed from the inside, as it is said, will not stand. We can be very different, but we are one people, and we have one Russia, ”said Vladimir Medinsky.
On a high pedestal, a female figure is the image of Russia, the image of a mother calling for the reconciliation of her sons, who were raised by the Civil War. Their figures are located at the foot of the pedestal. At the foot of the column, on three sides, poems dedicated to these tragic days by poets Maximilian Voloshin, Marina Tsvetaeva, Nikolai Turoverov, and also Mikhail Sholokhov are engraved in stone on three sides.
The author of the monument is sculptor, chairman of the Union of Artists of Russia Andrey Kovalchuk.
From IA "Legitimist": On the monument is written "We are one people, and we have one Russia." Given that the slogan of the whites was indeed "United and indivisible Russia", and the slogan of the red was "Workers of all countries unite", i.e. the slogan of the world revolution, to which they sacrificed Russia. The activation of the supporters of the Reds in the recent (see, for example, previously published news) clearly indicates that there is no desire for reconciliation on their part.
