On Tuesday, 26 December, we were waiting for two reports: one about what happened that day at the Petrozavodsk City Court; the other, an account of a recent investigation into the new row over who is buried at Sandarmokh, and how they died. An excerpt from a long interview with MARIA KARP on Radio Svoboda … Continue reading Dmitriev and Orwell
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Stalin’s long shadow
"In March 1953, after Stalin's death, the chief editor of the weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta Konstantin Simonov wrote that the main task of Soviet literature henceforth would be to understand Stalin's role in Russian history. He had no idea how right he would be!" writes Alexander Cherkasov. "It was literature that fostered the growth of interest … Continue reading Stalin’s long shadow
Nikolai Svanidze (video)
Journalist and historian https://youtu.be/7esxBY7cdkM "Юрий Алексеевич Дмитриев – человек уникальный. Вот есть такое слово «подвижник». Он подвижник. Для него общественные интересы несоизмеримо выше личных. И он работает, и работает тяжело, и работает опасно – для того, чтобы наши дети знали правду. Чтобы они могли отличить истину от лжи, чтобы они знали, что было в нашей … Continue reading Nikolai Svanidze (video)
Andrei Zubov (video)
Historian https://youtu.be/beXrMawPBvA
Letter in TLS, 5 August 2017
The Times Literary Supplement (London) The Trial of Yury Dmitriev Sir, — Daniel Beer's review of two books about Stalin's terror (21 July) rightly concludes with a case that has become, to the discomfort of the authorities, a cause célèbre in Putin's Russia. For twenty-five years and more, Yury Dmitriev hunted for the sites of … Continue reading Letter in TLS, 5 August 2017
The Dmitriev Affair 