Yuri Chekalin
Here’s what they write in one of the articles on “MOMENTO”: “Winston Churchill loved Armenian cognac and drank a bottle of the famous “Dvin” every day.
One day, the prime minister discovered that “Dvin” had lost its former taste. He expressed his dissatisfaction to Stalin. It turned out that the master Margar Sedrakyan, who was engaged in blending “Dvin”, was exiled to Siberia. At Churchill’s request, he was returned and reinstated in the party. Churchill began to receive his favorite cognac again, and Sedrakyan was subsequently awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.”
This is a fairy tale, only a very evil one, because only the names are true in it. It is designed for those who do not know, or do not check the facts. Firstly, the title of Hero of Socialist Labor was awarded to him indeed “later”, but not under Stalin, as one might think from the article, but in 1971.
Secondly (and this is the main thing), about Siberia. No one sent him there. Why? Because he was drafted into the army from the first days of the Great Patriotic War. From March 1942, as part of the 47th Army, he participated in defensive battles in the Kerch direction and during street battles in the city of Kerch on May 17, 1942, he received a shrapnel wound to his left leg. After recovery in the hospital in July 1942, he was discharged from the army and returned to Yerevan to work at his previous place.
The question is, why was such a stupid lie needed? To discredit Stalin once again? But it turned out the opposite and they discredited themselves.
Alexander Palladin
