Sunday, October 29, 2023

Russians remember Stalin's victims amid crackdown on dissent
THEY WERE BERIA'S VICTIMS ACTUALLY

Moscow (AFP) – Russians commemorated the victims of Stalinist terror on Sunday, more than 20 months into Moscow's Ukraine offensive that has been accompanied at home by a major crackdown on dissent.

AFP
Issued on: 29/10/2023 
Foreign envoys including US Ambassador Lynne Tracy lays flowers in memory of the victims of the vicitms of Stalin's terror outside FSB (former KGB) headquarters in Moscow 
© Alexander NEMENOV / AFP
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The Kremlin has doubled down on its version of history as troops fight in Ukraine, which often glosses over Stalinist crimes, with public commemoration of Soviet-era repression seen as unpatriotic.

Many Russians took part in the "Returning of the Names" event organised by Nobel Prize winning Memorial -- a rights and historical memory group shut down weeks before Moscow launched its 2022 military campaign.

Every year, the event sees people taking turns to read out the names of people executed during Stalin's Terror between 1936 and 1938.

In Moscow, it is traditionally held at the Solovetsky Stone memorial to victims, sited opposite the Lubyanka headquarters of the KGB, now occupied by its modern successor FSB.


Oleg Orlov, Memorial's co-chair recently fined for denouncing the Ukraine campaign, attended the ceremony
 © Alexander NEMENOV / AFP

AFP reporters said the square was encircled by metal barriers with a heavy police presence.

Oleg Orlov, Memorial's co-chair recently fined for denouncing the Ukraine campaign, attended the ceremony.

Several Western ambassadors, including the US envoy, laid flowers there.

Memorial staged a live feed of the reading of the names from Moscow and other Russian cities such as Volgograd and Siberia's Novosibirsk as well as from abroad.

© 2023 AFP


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Lavrentiy Beria - Wikipedia
Beria was the longest-serving and most influential of Stalin's secret police chiefs, wielding his most substantial influence during and after the war. Following ...


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Oct 16, 2023 ... Lavrenty Beria, director of the Soviet secret police who played a major role in the purges of Joseph Stalin's opponents.



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Lavrenti Beria Executed | History Today
Dec 12, 2003 ... Stalin's security chief Lavrenti Beria was executed on December 23rd, 1953.


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HISTORY's Forgotten People: Lavrentiy Beria
HISTORY's Forgotten People: Lavrentiy Beria · His executioner's wife later told the media that, just before being shot dead, Beria had “implored him for mercy, ...


BERIA WITH STALINS DAUGHTER, SVETLANA STALIN AT TABLE






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Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (1899-1953) was the administrative political director of the Soviet atomic bomb project and chief of the USSR's secret police.


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Jan 15, 2014 ... The author of this policy was Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the Soviet secret police. Beria was not simply a detached administrator of death, he ...




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Who was Lavrenti Beria and why was he executed? - Quora
Lawrentiy Beria was Chief executioner. He was to Stalin what Himmler was to Hitler. There are unconfirmed rumours that he poisoned Stalin with rat poison.


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beria - The National Security Archive
The only thing he hadn't expected was that our forces on the borders were superior in numbers, aviation, tanks and ground forces were all greater in number than ...

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