(see 24 November update, below) “Putin has given the children of Karelia not a summer camp or a sanatorium (none remain in the republic), nor a polyclinic for children -- not one has been built during the past 20 years -- but a concentration camp,” writes Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko deputy in the Karelian republic’s legislative … Continue reading A concentration camp for Karelia’s children
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Barbaric excavations again under way at Sandarmokh
New excavations are underway at the Sandarmokh Clearing in Karelia which holds the last remains of thousands of victims of the Great Terror of 1937-1938, writes Halya Coynash. Any pretence that the excavations by a body linked to the Russian Minister of Culture are not aimed at rewriting history has been dispelled by a letter … Continue reading Barbaric excavations again under way at Sandarmokh
Forgotten or Remembered
"Recently, for one reason and another, I've visited different villages in Russia," writes Yury MIKHAILIN (an administrator of the Dmitriev Supporters' Facebook page). "In many of them there stands a memorial to soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War [1941-1944] and in almost every case it is not simply a monument. Names are carved … Continue reading Forgotten or Remembered
Memory Wars?
A lengthy article about the POW execution theory in Russia’s Kommersant newspaper (7 September 2018) is even-handed and thorough. It needs little more than the following passage, however, to show the "new hypothesis of Karelian historians" for what it is: “Officially, there is no data to show that the Finns carried out mass executions at … Continue reading Memory Wars?
“Scoundrels thought up this case” (Chudakova)
After her journey from Moscow to Petrozavodsk to express her support for Yury Dmitriev, the redoutable literary specialist MARIETTA CHUDAKOVA found time to give a public lecture on Memory, history textbooks and how "the present generation of idiots" in Russia was raising the next ... She also responded to questions from the media, as is … Continue reading “Scoundrels thought up this case” (Chudakova)
The Dmitriev Affair 