ZPORIZHIA – A billboard with a caricature of Adolf Hitler has been put up in the center of Zaporizhia by journalists of a local newspaper and opponents of the monument to Stalin in Zaporizhia.
The anti-Stalin billboard with a caricature of Hitler and the phrase "Am I worse than Stalin?" Set up a monument to me too!" is located in Zaporizhia on the intersection of Lenin Avenue and Ukrainska Street.
"In this way journalists demand that Zaporizhia be rid of its shame – the Stalin monument," Subbota Plus newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Bohdan Vasylenko, told Interfax-Ukraine.
"We thought about how to respond to the installation of the monument to Stalin in Zaporizhia, as the local authorities resigned themselves to it. … That’s why we decided that a billboard with Hitler on it might be a response to the communist provocation. The dictators Stalin and Hitler are on the same scale. If the city found a place for Stalin, then for balance a Hitler [monument] might be set up," Vasylenko said.
"The billboard was intentionally set up on a gable facade at a height of the fifth floor in order not to be destroyed by the communist supporters who set up the monument to Stalin in Zaporizhia," he said.
The billboard is the only possibility for Zaporizhia citizens to show their attitude to the Stalin monument as "other actions may lead to problems with the law", the editor said.
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