As for the next initiative of the Governor of the Initiative, I turn to Ric to Ric: this view of things has been repeatedly proclaimed by our aliens. Yes, repression, yes collectivization, yes, mass victims. But Danvers and Magnitka. Not only in the Russian Empire (as in other countries) factories and power plants were successfully built without mass human sacrifice. But in a very humanistic attitude, innocent people can (and should) be destroyed en masse for great achievements. Therefore the discussion about monuments is a discussion about principles. Is it possible to kill innocent people for big projects? Is it possible to blow up churches, shoot priests, starve the peasants, so that later there will be (or rather) a just future? Those who erect monuments to Stalin declare "yes & #33". Those who care about the Solzhenitsyn monument say "no".