The Krasnoyarsk branch of YABLOKO paid tribute to the victims of political reprisals
Press Release, 30.10.2013
Alexander Kotlov, Chair of the Krasnoyarsk branch of YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction, picketed the office of the Federal Security Department on the Memory Day of the Victims of Political Reprisals, October 30.
YABLOKO’s regional branches conducted memorial actions in Moscow, St.Petersburg, Barnaul, Omsk, Volgograd and other cities on that day paying tribute to the victims of political reprisals.
Over 2.5 million people died in GULAG in the USSR in the years of the Great Terror.
The YABLOKO party holds annual memory actions on this day commemorating victims of the Stalin’s regime: innocent people shot or sent to hard labour without any investigation or trial.
Posted: October 31st, 2013 under History, Human Rights.