Several pages and 18 posts on the website refer in detail to the Great Terror in Karelia. There are also detailed accounts of 11 sites in Karelia on the 2014 Map of Memory (Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag). A Chronology (Aug 1937 to Nov 1938, inclusive) Sites and victims “Judges” and Executioners [1] “Judges” … Continue reading The Great Terror (in Karelia)
Great Terror (Karelia)*
“People, do not kill one another!”
Entrance to the Sandarmokh Place of Remembrance(photo, Vladimir Spiridonov, 1 July 2023) The bas relief has been restored.
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 