For decades the killing fields of the Stalin regime remained unmarked and abandoned, the only clues to their presence being that all the trees were of the same age, unlike a natural forest or grove, and the distinctive outlines of the burial pits, though these were fast disappearing beneath the undergrowth ... People knew or … Continue reading “Abandon all hope …”
Remembrance
monuments, events, publications
“Total schizophrenia” (Video)
Writer Ludmila Ulitskaya inthe courthouse corridor on 11 October 2017. https://youtu.be/A5-1XjANWYY This 4-minute clip from the Meduza news website also includes footage of Dmitriev on Solovki, and speaking at at Sandarmokh on 5 August 2014. You cannot fool the people forever ... ULITSKAYA "This trial is of extraordinary significance./ symbolic. At the end of this … Continue reading “Total schizophrenia” (Video)
At Krasny Bor
Students from the Moscow Film School add a photo they've located of one of the victims from the Krasny Bor killing field near Petrozavodsk.
Sandarmokh bas-relief to be restored
Friends and colleagues of Yury Dmitriev plan to restore the bas-relief "Execution with the Guardian Angel" formerly attached to the monument at Sandarmokh, says his close friend Anatoly Razumov. Opening of Monument, 1998 "The bas-relief is a landmark of Sandarmokh. During the round-table in Medvezhyegorsk on Memorial Day on August 5, the director of the … Continue reading Sandarmokh bas-relief to be restored
Solovki
Solovki, the Special Purpose Solovetsky Camp, was the first permanent concentration camp of the Soviet regime. (Its Russian acronym SLON spelled "Elephant".) Set up in 1923 on a group of islands in the White Sea, it began with a mixed population of left-wing political opponents of the Bolsheviks (Anarchists, Socialist Revolutionaries) and criminals. Its purpose … Continue reading Solovki
The Dmitriev Affair 