For six hours on Thursday, 5 August 2021, volunteers read out the names of those shot at Sandarmokh, Karelia's largest killing field, during the Great Terror in 1937 to 1938.
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In court again, July 2021
Photo posted on Facebook by Katerina Klodt, Dmitriev's grown daughter, on Tuesday 21 July
Remembrance (4), “No smoke without fire?”
The OGPU investigation of the Pokrovsky brothers in summer 1932 helps us put faces to four names. Ivan was executed in Moscow, one death in the maelstrom unleashed by the forced industrialisation of the USSR and the dekulakisation of the countryside. Alexander was shot four years later at Sandarmokh, a victim of the Great Terror. … Continue reading Remembrance (4), “No smoke without fire?”
Remembrance (2): Shot at Sandarmokh
Alexander Pokrovsky, 1912-1937 "Remembrance (1)" recalled the efforts of volunteers like Yury DMITRIEV over the past quarter century, thanks to which the names and reputations of some three million victims of the Soviet regime have been restored. It would be natural to proceed from the discovery of the killing field at Sandarmokh in 1997 to … Continue reading Remembrance (2): Shot at Sandarmokh
A second attempt to deny Dmitriev a proper defence
Halya Coynash After two acquittals and a sentence much shorter than that demanded, new measures were taken in Russia to secure a long sentence against world-renowned historian of the Soviet Terror, Yury DMITRIEV. One, the appeal hearing last September at the Karelian High Court came before Alla Rats, a judge whose bias had already been … Continue reading A second attempt to deny Dmitriev a proper defence
The Dmitriev Affair 