"I have experienced for myself what those imprisoned in the late 1930s were feeling. Now I know the words to convey their pain, indignation and hurt, the bitterness of separation from their dear ones. Now I know how dispiriting it is, this waiting: 'They’ll sort things out and let me go — I’ve done absolutely nothing … Continue reading Detention Centre No 1
Year: 2017
Gasan Guseinov (video)
Philologist https://youtu.be/TopHsW_5Bsc "What do such solitary individuals as Yury Dmitriev do in this vast country? They link our time with times past. They show the origins of that diabolic force, which today has awoken in those who are persecuting Yury Dmitriev. "I appeal to his persecutors and remind them: Each and every one of your … Continue reading Gasan Guseinov (video)
Official Western responses
In July 2017 Deliya Meylanova contacted her Member of Parliament, Catherine West, about the trial of Yury Dmitirev. In turn Catherine West (Labour) wrote to SIR ALAN DUNCAN, a Conservative MP at the Foreign Office. On 13 September, Duncan sent his fellow MP a reply: Source: Deliya Meylanova, Facebook; posted 31 October 2017, on «Дело … Continue reading Official Western responses
“The Executed Renaissance”
Another of those shot at Sandarmokh between 27 October and 4 November 1937 was Oleksiy SARVAN (1893-1937). The March 1937 Resolution from the White Sea Canal corrective-labour camps (see below) sends Sarvan for trial because of his "systematic anti-Soviet work" among his fellow prisoners. The case was sent to the procurator's office of the BelBalt … Continue reading “The Executed Renaissance”
3 November 1937
Andriy Stepanovich PANIV was shot at Sandarmokh eighty years ago. He was one of 1,116 prisoners, marked for execution, who were shipped from Solovki to the mainland in autumn 1937. Born 1899, Paniv was a rural schoolteacher in Ukraine (1918-1923), a writer, poet, journalist and translator. Before his arrest, he lived in the "Word" building … Continue reading 3 November 1937
The Dmitriev Affair 