Victims of Bolshevist repressions commemorated in Belarus today
A traditional commemoration of victims of Bolshevist repressions will take place in Minsk and in a number of Belarusian regions on Saturday, September 29. People will gather in the forest in Loshytsa and in Chalyuskintsau Park in Minsk at about 3 p.m. Shootings were executed there in Stalin’s time. Participants of the Commemoration Day will visit Kurapaty at about 5 p.m. People will lay flowers to the grave of the repressed and will light candles.
The civil committee on commemoration of victims of Stalin’s repressions has sent a letter to the head of KGB recently asking asked for permission to lay flowers near the walls of the former PCIA prison (now it is KGB p[prison) on the evening of September 29.
More than 100 representatives of the Belarusian intellectual elite were shot there on the night of October 30 in 1937. The road to Kurapaty used to begin there for tens of thousands of people, reminds nn.by.
“They have to give us a reply within a month. Of cause we expect a negative answer. They do not think we had repressions here”, - said a historian and researcher of Stalin’s repressions in Belarus Ihar Kuznyatsou in his Interview given to ERB.
The civil committee on commemoration of victims of Stalin’s repressions has sent a letter to the head of KGB recently asking asked for permission to lay flowers near the walls of the former PCIA prison (now it is KGB p[prison) on the evening of September 29.
More than 100 representatives of the Belarusian intellectual elite were shot there on the night of October 30 in 1937. The road to Kurapaty used to begin there for tens of thousands of people, reminds nn.by.
“They have to give us a reply within a month. Of cause we expect a negative answer. They do not think we had repressions here”, - said a historian and researcher of Stalin’s repressions in Belarus Ihar Kuznyatsou in his Interview given to ERB.
