The Most Scandalous Monument In Belgorod Region

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The Most Scandalous Monument In Belgorod Region

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In 2005 in Belgorod region near the ancient undeground monastery not
far from the village of Kholki the monument to Prince Svyatoslav of
Kiev was built up for the 1040th anniversary of crushing defeat of the
Khazar Kaganate by this ancient Russian great commander.

The author of this monument is well-known Russian sculptor Vyacheslav
Klykov. Befor this he created many monuments, the most well-known of
them are the monument to Marshal Zhukov near the Historical Museum in
Moscow, the monument to Cyrill and Mephody in the Slavyanskaya Square,
Prince Vladimir in Khersonesus and others.

But this monument at once provoced a whole wave of scandals all over
Russia. The case is in this 13 meters monument Prince Svyatoslav is
depicted on horseback and his horse is trampling under foot a khazar
warrior.

At first it seems there is nothing unusual in this picture. But one
detail: to make clear that the prostrate warrior is a khazar and
nobody else on his shield there was a big emblem of David's star.
Of course the main religion (though not the single) in the Khazar
Kaganate was Judaism, but the fact that the giant charger of
Svyatoslav is trampling the symbol of Judaism caused a storm of
protests from very many Jewish communities from all corners of Russia
even before the opening of this monument.

At first the local authorities planned place the monument in Belgorod,
but maybe just because of this scandal they finally decided to put it
in some far place but not in the city.

And also some time after the shield with David's star was replaced by
the new one with just a neutral picture.

You can see the photo of this monument of our site in the section Our
Belgorod.

http://www3.webng.com/rusgenealogy/

Just click the button Our Belgorod.

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