| The leader of the Yabloko association
and the Yabloko faction in the State Duma Grigory Yavlinsky
thinks that “the threat of Stalinism has not perished”
and that “there are many other people ready to repeat
the past”.
He made this statement on October 30, 2000 at the
mourning meeting in Moscow by the Solovetskiy Stone
at Lubyanka Square.
According to Grigory Yavlinsky “Let us stand together
and let us refuse to give up our freedom!”
Chairman of the Union of Right-Wing Forces faction
in the State Duma Boris Nemtsov also made a speech
at the meeting. He called on the people at the meeting
(according to the law-enforcement agencies, over a
thousand people took part in the meting at Lubyanka
Square) not to forget the victims of
political repressions, adding that it was becoming
increasingly difficult in the State Duma to adopt
a corresponding declaration devoted to the Memory
Day of the Victims of Political Repressions.
Speeches were also made by the Deputy Chairperson
of the Constitutional Court of the RF Tamara Morschakova,
Head of the Commission on Rehabilitation under the
President of the RF Academician Alexander Yakovlev,
Minister of the Moscow government Alexander Muzikantskiy
and famous actress Olga Ostoumova.
All the speakers stressed that it was necessary to
keep the memory of the victims of political repressions
alive, so that such a thing would never be repeated
in the country.
The meeting ended with the laying of flowers at the
Solovetskiy Stone. Representatives of the embassies
of a number of foreign states, in particular, Germany,
Poland, the Czech Republic and some of the CIS countries
also participated in the ceremony.
Based on Interfax reports.
See also:
Speech
of Grigory Yavlinsky at the mourning meeting on the
Memory Day of the Victims of Political Repressions
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