| YABLOKO leaders and activists participated in the memorial
action organised by the Memorial human rights society and
commemorating the victims of political reprisals during Stalins
period. The action took place by the FSB (former KGB) building
at Lubyanka square.
YABLOKO founder Grigory Yavlinsky and YABLOKO Chair Sergei
Mitrokhin, Eugeny Bunimovich, YABLOKO activist and Ombudsman
for Children in Moscow, Political Committee members Viktor
Sheinis and Boris Misnik, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Bureau member
and head of Soldiers Mothers faction, leaders of the Moscow
branch of YABLOKO Galina Mikhalyova, Alexander Gnezdilov and
Zoya Shargatova came to the Solovestky Stone at Lubyanka square.
Every participant of the action received a list with the
names of Muscovites - victims of Stalins terror of 1937
1938, their age, posts and dates of execution. YABLOKO activists
and Muscovites read out loud the names of the victims and
put a candle to the Solovetsky Stone.
30,000 people were shot only in Moscow in1937-1938.
The action takes place annully on the threashold of October
30, the Day of Political Prisoners, established in 1974 by
Soviet political prisoners who conducted hunger strikes and
lit candles in memory of the victims on that day. Also on
that day Sergei Kovalyov conducted in Andrei Sakharov's flat
a press-conference devoted to this action of political prisoners.
Since 1974 hunger stikes of political prisonersin prison camps
have been taking place annualy marking a new stage in the
human rights movement.
Photo: Eugeny Bunimovich, Sergei Mitrokhin
and Galina Mikhalyova
Photo: Eugeny Bunimovich
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin
See also:
Human
Rights
Overcoming
Stalin's Legacy
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