Over sixteen months (August 1937-November 1938), more than one and a half million people were arrested in the USSR and sentenced in their absence by regional tribunals -- the extra-judicial troika (“three-member commissions”), dvoika (“two-member commissions”), and Special Board -- or came briefly before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court in Moscow. No defence … Continue reading The Great Terror, 1937-1938
Remembrance
monuments, events, publications
Wednesday, 5 August 2020. Sandarmokh
Some photos taken at Sandarmokh by Svetlana Kulchitskaya. The images show: Irina FLIGE laying carnations on a collective memorial; a plaque commemorating Pyotr Didushok-Gelmer (1889-1937 shot); a stone bearing the words "Do not forget these Swedes!"; a plaque commemorating Xenia Djikayeva (1902-1937 shot); and a view of part of the memorial complex.
Remembering the victims of Sandarmokh
On Wednesday, 5 August, people marked the annual Day of Remembrance in over 80 towns and cities all over the world (in Bulgaria, Latvia, Ukraine, Scotland and Brittany among others) by reading out the names of those shot at Sandarmokh in 1937 and 1938, during the Great Terror. Due to the Corona virus epidemic no … Continue reading Remembering the victims of Sandarmokh
“Light in the Darkness” (I)
This website has already published excerpts from Irina Flige's 2019 book about Sandarmokh: The Search for Sandarmokh. What follows is from a review in the January 2020 issue of Novy mir, the literary magazine (Moscow). "Two themes run through Irina Flige’s book," writes Tatyana Bonch-Osmolovskaya. "One is the quest, pursued across many years, for the … Continue reading “Light in the Darkness” (I)
Film school put up new plaques as excavations continued
On 19 August 2019, when the barbarous excavations of the Military History Society were well under way, a large group of students from the Moscow International Film School arrived at Sandormokh. They brought with them 16 unique plaques they had made themselves, listing those shot and buried there, from first Solovki transport and the prisoners … Continue reading Film school put up new plaques as excavations continued
The Dmitriev Affair 