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)
Rewriting Sandarmokh*
What we’ve uncovered [1]
Nikita GIRIN, 13 July 2020 Novaya gazeta The historian Yury DMITRIEV was accused of touching his foster daughter’s genital area on several occasions;At the age of eight the girl suffered episodes of involuntary urination (enuresis);DMITRIEV touched the child’s genital area to check if her underwear was dry when he could smell urine, after which he … Continue reading What we’ve uncovered [1]
“Light in the Darkness” (I)
This website has already published excerpts from Irina Flige's 2019 book about Sandarmokh: The Search for Sandarmokh. What follows is from a review in the January 2020 issue of Novy mir, the literary magazine (Moscow). "Two themes run through Irina Flige’s book," writes Tatyana Bonch-Osmolovskaya. "One is the quest, pursued across many years, for the … Continue reading “Light in the Darkness” (I)
“The Mysteries of Sandarmokh”, A book review
Even before Yury DMITRIEV was arrested in December 2016, an alternative explanation of the mass burials at Sandormokh had appeared (see below, Appendix). Promoted by two historians at Petrozavodsk University, Sergei Verigin and Yury Kilin, it suggested that among those executed and buried in the forest near Medvezhegorsk were not only victims of Stalin's Great … Continue reading “The Mysteries of Sandarmokh”, A book review
The Search for Sandormokh
“Twenty years ago, it seemed to us that Sandormokh as a place and these acts of remembrance divided the present from the past,” said Irina FLIGE in August 2017, at the Day of Remembrance at Sandormokh. “Today, unfortunately, we must recognise that memories of the Great Terror have not become part of our [shared] memory … Continue reading The Search for Sandormokh
The Dmitriev Affair 