Soviet prisoners of war were not buried in Sandarmokh, according to information held by Finland’s National Archive. Recently it has been asserted in Russia that hundreds of Soviet POWs, executed by the Finns during the Continuation War (1941-1944), were buried at Sandarmokh in eastern Karelia (the Republic of Karelia in the Russian Federation). The Russian … Continue reading Finnish archive rejects Russia’s “new hypothesis”
Month: August 2019
“We rule here”
Reads the placard to the left ... "This is our cenotaph," (reads the placard on the right). 17 August 2019 (photo, Alina Shevchenko) A protest by the "Party of the Dead" against renewed excavations at Sandarmokh by the Russian Military History Society. "Anyone who doesn't accept the official version of history is a paedophile"
Excavations in the heart of Sandarmokh
Memorial observers monitor the activities of the Russian Military History Society I can't look calmly at this photo. In the very heart of Sandarmokh, between commemorative stones and plaques on the trees, they are now digging up the graves. I have one question. If someone came along and started digging up a memorial to the … Continue reading Excavations in the heart of Sandarmokh
Barbaric excavations again under way at Sandarmokh
New excavations are underway at the Sandarmokh Clearing in Karelia which holds the last remains of thousands of victims of the Great Terror of 1937-1938, writes Halya Coynash. Any pretence that the excavations by a body linked to the Russian Minister of Culture are not aimed at rewriting history has been dispelled by a letter … Continue reading Barbaric excavations again under way at Sandarmokh
The Dmitriev Affair 