In July, a
Chinese cultural centre will open in the main house of the Musin-Pushkin
estate, located in Moscow’s Troickiy administrative district. This was
announced by the mayor and Moscow government’s internet page.
“The collection for the exhibition will be brought
to Moscow from Beijing. Photos of Mao Tse-tung will find their place in the
restored halls”, told the architector in charge of the project, restorer Yelena
Kiselyova.
In 1928, the estate was the
lieu of the VIth congress of the Communist Party of China. This was the only
congress that took place outside of the country. Mao Tse-tung was absent from
the congress. He only took a leading role in the communist party in the late
1930’s. Nevertheless, the main exhibition of the museum will be dedicated to
him anyways.
The halls will be decorated with photos of Mao and
the delegates at the congress, information stands with quotes of the leader and
banners with the communist party’s slogans.
The estate building was transferred to the Chinese
cultural centre in September 2013 in the presence of the Russian President,
Vladimir Putin, and the representative of the PRC, Xi Jinping.
The restauration of the two-story main building
with mezzanines and a belvedere began in November 2015. According to Kiselyova,
the restaurations are almost complete, all that remains is to fix the fence
that leads to the main doors of the estate.
Mao Tse-tung was the first
General Secretary of the PRC. In the 1930’s he took the lead in the Chinese
Soviet Republic (existing in the rural regions of southern Central China).
After its destruction, he became one of the organisers of the Long March to northern China. After the victory of
the communists in 1949, Mao Tse-tung became the head of PRC and its leader up
until his death on September 9, 1976.
Maoists consider him an important politician, the
inspiration behind revolutionary movements across the world. Opponents call Mao
Tse-tung a dictator – during his years in government tens of millions of persons
died of hunger, executions and forced labour.
Originally published on 18.02.2016 on the news
portal Lenta.ru.
Publicado
por Left Russia
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