Yury Dmitriev "My Path to Golgotha" Did I ever want to give up? Sometimes, when there was no food at home and work on the execution lists and burial sites took up all my time. By then I was no longer an aide to a people’s deputy. Yury Dmitriev (photo, Sophia Pankevich) I made some … Continue reading “It was all preparation for what I do now” (part 4)
photo(s)
“We must be able to find something” (part 3)
Yury Dmitriev "My Path to Golgotha" "In 1997 I met Veniamin Joffe and Irina Flige from Petersburg Memorial at the FSB archives in Karelia. We agreed to look for the site near Medvezhyegorsk where executions took place. "Joffe and Flige were on the track of the missing transport from Solovki special prison. They began their … Continue reading “We must be able to find something” (part 3)
In the archives (part 2)
Yury Dmitriev, "My Path to Golgotha" "Then I became an aide to Ivan Chukhin, a deputy of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet (and the State Duma, 1990-1995). He was a lieutenant-colonel in the police, a psychologist. Ivan Chukhin, 1948-1997 "Around that time, it was decided to compile a Book of Remembrance for Karelia. That’s to say, … Continue reading In the archives (part 2)
“Let’s cover them up again” (part 1)
Yury Dmitriev "My Path to Golgotha" "For me it all began in the late 1980s. I’d heard that people had been 'repressed', but, somehow, we didn’t speak about it in our family. It turned out later that my mother’s father was dekulakised and sent to work on the White Sea Canal. Yury Dmitriev (1980s) "My … Continue reading “Let’s cover them up again” (part 1)
“Anyone can find themselves in prison …”
"After we'd recovered from the excitement of Yury Dmitriev's release" (see 28 January interview) "I thought of more questions I wanted to ask him, though these still do not exhaust my list," writes Anna Yarovaya. Yury Dmitriev (photo, Sophia Pankevich) "I tried not to repeat anything. I particularly like the passage about his beard: the … Continue reading “Anyone can find themselves in prison …”
The Dmitriev Affair 