“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
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Ukraine’s “executed renaissance”
Acclaimed curator and theatre director from New York Virlana Tkacz and artist Waldemart Klyuzko will give a talk in London tonight about Les KURBAS, Ukraine's most important theatre director, who radically transformed Ukrainian theatre in the 1920s. Kurbas and almost three hundred other representatives of Ukraine's intelligentsia were shot at Sandarmokh between 27 October and … Continue reading Ukraine’s “executed renaissance”
“The Executed Renaissance”
Another of those shot at Sandarmokh between 27 October and 4 November 1937 was Oleksiy SARVAN (1893-1937). The March 1937 Resolution from the White Sea Canal corrective-labour camps (see below) sends Sarvan for trial because of his "systematic anti-Soviet work" among his fellow prisoners. The case was sent to the procurator's office of the BelBalt … Continue reading “The Executed Renaissance”
3 November 1937
Andriy Stepanovich PANIV was shot at Sandarmokh eighty years ago. He was one of 1,116 prisoners, marked for execution, who were shipped from Solovki to the mainland in autumn 1937. Born 1899, Paniv was a rural schoolteacher in Ukraine (1918-1923), a writer, poet, journalist and translator. Before his arrest, he lived in the "Word" building … Continue reading 3 November 1937
Do not support their hypocrisy!
It is immoral to support the hypocrisy of the Russian authorities An appeal by 37 former political prisoners concerning today’s opening of a monument in Moscow As former political prisoners and participants in the Democratic Movement in the Soviet Union, we consider the opening in Moscow of a monument to the “victims of political repression” … Continue reading Do not support their hypocrisy!
The Dmitriev Affair 