Yabloko leaders to visit the place of mass burial of Stalin’s victims in Karelia on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Reprisals on 30 October
Press Release, 29.10.2020
On 30 October, the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Reprisals in Russia, a delegation of the Yabloko Party will come to Karelia to visit the Sandarmokh memorial cemetery in the Medvezhyegorsk region of the Republic.
The mourning ceremony will be attended by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the party Ivan Bolshakov, deputies of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia from Yabloko Emilia Slabunova and Ivan Gusev, leader of the party faction in the Moscow City Duma Maxim Kruglov, members of the party’s Federal Bureau Grigory Grishin and Kirill Goncharov and others.
The place of mass executions and burials was discovered in Sandarmokh in 1997 by the Karelian historian Yury Dmitriyev. It was for preserving the memory of the victims of Stalin’s reprisals, exposing the names of the executioners and creating a memorial in the place of mass burial, that the authorities staged a fraudulent and dirty criminal case against Yury Dmitriyev and sentenced him this year to 13 years in prison.
Posted: October 29th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.