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?”
Trial
about arrest, investigation and trial – entire process
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
A glimpse: 2 April 2021
What an awful picture,” writes Alexander Recoubratsky. “An elderly man in handcuffs, surrounded by guards. This is no villain but the historian Yury Dmitriev who found the burial places of Stalin’s victims in Karelia as he is led to yet another, dishonourable trial. He has already spent almost five years in prison.” (Photo, Natalia Dyomina.)
Same charges, same court
For a third time Yury DMITRIEV is on trial in Petrozavodsk, before a different judge and prosecutor. There has been a second attempt to replace Yury DMITRIEV's defence attorney Victor Anufriev. On Friday, 2 April 2021, the third trial of Yury Dmitriev was resumed at the Petrozavodsk City Court (the proceedings were halted for several … Continue reading Same charges, same court
