YABLOKO demanded to open a museum in the house where Stalin’s victims were shot
Press Release, October 30, 2013
On October 30, the Day of Political Prisoners, YABLOKO conducted a picket near the house where Stalin’s victims were shot demanding from the authorities to save the house and open a memorial museum there. The action was strictly controlled by six policemen, one of them had an assault rifle.
Alexei Nesterenko
YABLOKO member Alexei Nesterenko has been picketing the house where Stalin’s victims were shot every Wednesday since April 28, 2011. His father was shot in that house, therefore it’s important for Nesterenko to turn the place into a memorial museum. Alexei Nesterenko said that despite the promise of Alexander Kibovsky, head of Cultural Heritage Department, to turn the place into a museum there is no progress in the case.
The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union was situated in this house in the years of Great Terror. “The enemies of the people” were adjudged at the place, among them: writers Isaak Babel, Boris Pilnyak, film director Vsevolod Meyerhold, marshals Mikhail Tukhachevsky and Alexander Yegorov, members of Political Bureau Nikolai Bukharin, Grigory Zinovyev, Lev Kamenyev and the others.
The YABLOKO party collects signatures for turning the house into a museum.
Posted: October 30th, 2013 under History, Human Rights.