Foreword Basis for the published list was 4th edition CD Victims of Political Terror in the USSR. Published lists several extended as compared with the disc includes more than 2.6 million names - added the CVs of Memory Books Sakhalin region, as well as the third volume of the Book of Memory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the preparatory work for the next volumes of the Book of Memory Krasnodar region, third Books volumes memory Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, 5th volume Book of Memory of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the 2nd volume Book of Memory of the Novosibirsk Region, 5th volume Memory Books Sverdlovskoy1 area. Total number of added names - about 30,000. The fourth edition of the database Victims of Political Terror in the USSR was carried out in the year of the 70th anniversary of the Great Terror - and most brutal campaign of mass murder in the countrys history. Then for two years (1937-1938) on political charges was arrested more than 1 million 700 thousand people, and at least 725,000 of them were shot - an average daily state kills thousands of its citizens. But the Great Terror - this is only one, albeit the most bloody terrorist campaign of Soviet power. In a smaller scale, with less brutality committed similar crimes throughout the seventy years - from the October revolution, the 90th anniversary of which falls on those days when she goes out our CD. It would seem that after getting rid of the communist regime in our people is no more important task than to understand the causes and recognize the scale of the disaster has befallen us - not the plague, not a plague, and the humanitarian disaster, created with his own hands. Necessary condition for the fulfillment of this task is to restore the full memory of the terror, the details of which for decades hidden and silent. And, in particular - to perpetuate the memory of the victims. This work is really underway for nearly two decades. However, results are not too encouraging. Instead of monuments to the victims of political repression, which were supposed to erect, in most cases still are embedded stones set at the turn of 1980-1990-ies. Not established in the Russian national museum of political repressions. And in regional exhibitions of historical and ethnographic museums theme of repression and if a given place, it is usually slight. On plaques set in honor of those of our outstanding citizens who were killed or died in the camps, there is no mention of any of their tragic death. Identified and marked with memorable characters, only a small part of the mass graves of executed. And thousands of cemeteries near kogdatoshnih camps and labor settlements lost forever: they turned into wasteland, cultivation, overgrown with woods, in their place, built a new residential areas or industrial complexes. Until now, millions of people do not know where their parents are buried, grandfathers and great grandfathers. But perhaps the most important of the debt does not cast us - the names of the victims. It was bequeathed all called by name. This problem today is far from fulfillment.
Posted on: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 15:45:42 +0000
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