A third of the population …

15 February 201818 August 2025 / editors (JC) / 1 Comment

When YURY DMITRIEV was arrested, he was finishing work on a book that had taken nine years to research. It would contain thousands of names, he explained, in a January 2016 interview: “I’m now putting together a book that will contain the names of those deported to ‘build socialism’ in Karelia from almost every other … Continue reading A third of the population …

“It was all preparation for what I do now” (part 4)

15 February 201819 August 2025 / editors (JC)

Yury Dmitriev "My Path to Golgotha" Did I ever want to give up? Sometimes, when there was no food at home and work on the execution lists and burial sites took up all my time. By then I was no longer an aide to a people’s deputy. Yury Dmitriev (photo, Sophia Pankevich) I made some … Continue reading “It was all preparation for what I do now” (part 4)