On 21 October 2023 it was reported that a memorial to “the victims of Soviet repression” had been demolished in Vladimir. Yet it was not the city’s only memorial of the kind. In 2021, a gathering led by the local Memorial Society and supported by city authorities was held on the Day of Remembrance for … Continue reading On another front (2023)
CHUKHIN, Ivan*
WHY DMITRIEV? (1)
In 2002, five years after the tragic death of Ivan Chukhin, Yury DMITRIEV published the Commemorative Lists of Karelia. This Book of Remembrance named 14,308 individuals -- most of them shot (11,275); others sent to the Gulag (1,958). The task on which Chukhin and Dmitriev had embarked almost a decade earlier was completed. Why we … Continue reading WHY DMITRIEV? (1)
The Terror in Karelia
posts and pages "Judges" and Executioners [1]"Judges" and Executioners [2]"Judges", Executioners and ... [3] (forthcoming)Chukhin and Dmitriev (forthcoming) * The Great Terror in Karelia: A ChronologyExecutions in Karelia, 1937-1938: Locations, numbers & executioners
“Judges” and Executioners [2]
In February 2021 after a visit to Petrozavodsk reporters eagerly repeated [Postscript] a suggestion of DMITRIEV’s 88-year-old acquaintance Alexander Selyutsky that the historian might have upset a local relative or descendant of the “Judges” or Executioners of 1937-1938: “He not only came across those who were arrested: the executioners were also named in those documents.” … Continue reading “Judges” and Executioners [2]
“Judges” and Executioners [1]
It has been suggested that Yury DMITRIEV attracted the wrath of the authorities by exposing the members of the troika that issued thousands of death sentences in Karelia during the Great Terror or by naming the NKVD executioners who shot those thousands of men and women. Ivan Chukhin (photo) Yet as Irina FLIGE describes in … Continue reading “Judges” and Executioners [1]
The Dmitriev Affair 