"It's very unpleasant." A Ryazan resident described how monument-making companies profit from the families of fallen soldiers.
If they ask for a tombstone for a “mere mortal” in Ryazan 90 thousand rubles, then for the monument on the grave of a participant in the war with Ukraine - 800 thousand rubles or more. Novye Izvestia reported this. рtold widow of a serviceman from Ryazan Olesya Mokina.
Mokina is also the sister of a serviceman who died in March 2022. After his death, his brother's wife was told the cost of the monument would be 500 rubles. Now, when it's time to install it, the price has risen to 800 thousand rublesShe assumed that when the time came for her to install a monument to her husband, it would cost 1 million rubles or more.
"Everything connected with our deceased relatives deeply upsets us. The perception is that we're overfed relatives and widows who erect such monuments to our loved ones. In reality, we want to erect dignified monuments. We don't want to build pantheons. Our victims weren't gangsters from the 90s; they were young men who gave their lives for their country." - she spoke out.
Her words were confirmed by her widow. Yana, who was charged 500 rubles just for pouring concrete for the burial site. She said that 12 years ago, they buried her grandfather, a serviceman. The state allocated 46 rubles for the burial, and that was enough for everything. Now, the Ministry of Defense is allocating the same amount for the burial.
The pro-government Women's Movement did not believe the story about the monuments' cost.
The Ritual Municipal Budgetary Institution and the mayor's office declined to comment to NI. It is only known that the Ryazan administration is asking widows to "maintain a solemn style" when arranging graves in the Alley of Heroes.
Chairman of the Moscow City Committee of the Trade Union of Funeral Service Workers Anton Avdeev commented: "Authorities are obliged to erect these monuments and create a sacred symbol out of them."
On the appearance of the Alley of Heroes "NotMoscow" at the Bogorodskoye Cemetery пиindustry at the end of 2022 year.
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