Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.10.2021

Photo: Solovetsky Stone monument to the victims of political repressions in Lyubyanskaya Square, Moscow, October 2021

Pyotr Gerasimovich Kunatsky, 37, worker at the construction site of the department of public education. Shot on 4 December, 1937.

Sergei Vasilievich Mokshanov, 55, head of the sports department of the Posyltorg of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade of the RSFSR. Shot on 22 March, 1938.

Pyotr Ivanovich Grushevsky, 32, a clerk at the Main Military-Industrial Directorate of the Supreme Council of the National Economy of the USSR. Shot on 28 June, 1930.

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Yuri Alekseyevich Dmitriev, 65, historian, Chairman of the Karelian branch of the Memorial human rights society, investigated the burial places of victims of Stalinist repressions. On 29 September, 2020, sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security colony.

Ivan Ivanovich Safronov, 31, journalist. Has been under arrest since July 13, 2020, and faces up to 20 years of imprisonment.

Azat Fanisovich Miftakhov, 28, graduate student of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University. On January 18, 2021, sentenced to six years of imprisonment.

The 30^th of October is the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression. But it is important to remember every day the millions of our compatriots killed during the years of the Bolshevik terror. Because it can happen again in our country. Today there are already over 400 people on the list of political prisoners complied by the Memorial Human Rights Centre.

Forgetting the crimes of Stalinism and Bolshevism opens the way for the return of repression, and support for overt or yet latent communists-Stalinists, either in the form of voting for them or in the form of persuading oneself and others that they are “not the same communists”, gives Putin’s system an indult for new arrests and new sentences.

Remember this!

Remember the victims of Stalinism!

Remember each of today’s political prisoners!

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Leaders, members and supporters of the Yabloko party took part in the action “Returning the Names” and read out the names of citizens shot during the Great Terror 1936-1938 and Stalinist repressions of 1930 – 1953. The action in memory of the victims of political repression has been annually organised by the Memorial human rights group since 2007. The Solovetsky Stone in Moscow is one of the most significant monuments to the victims of political repression killed in Joseph Stalin’s period, 1930 – 1953. The stone was brought to Moscow from the territory of the former Solovetsky Camp, which became the symbol of the GULAG.