The monument was erected on the occasion of the 115th anniversary of the birth of Sudoplatov as part of the program of the Russian Military Historical Society.
“I congratulate everyone on this holiday, this is a real holiday for our Motherland, for our small Motherland - Melitopol, and for our great Motherland - the Soviet Union, and now Greater Russia, to whose fraternal peoples we aspire, I think that after the referendum we will there, ”RIA Novosti quotes Balitsky.
The second bust of Sudoplatov will be opened in Moscow, where in 1941, under his leadership, a separate motorized rifle brigade of special purpose was formed to solve reconnaissance and sabotage tasks behind enemy lines.
On May 26, one of the streets in Melitopol was renamed in honor of Pavel Sudoplatov, earlier this street was named after the ideologist of Ukrainian nationalism Dmitry Dontsov.
Sudoplatov is known, among other things, as the person who liquidated the head of the OUN, Yevgeny Konovalets.
The operation to eliminate Konovalets, which was carried out by the intelligence officer, went down in the history of Soviet intelligence.
On July 7, RIA Novosti published unknown details of the liquidation of Konovalets.
* Organization of Ukrainian nationalists - "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" (OUN-UPA) - a Ukrainian organization recognized as extremist and banned in Russia (decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 11/17/2014).