Sandarmoch

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Granite stone of the memorial with the inscription people, don't kill each other
Memorial to the Ukrainians who were shot here

Sandarmoch ( Russian Сандармох ; Karelian : Sandarmoh) is a forest area 12 km from Medvezhjegorsk in Karelia , Russia . During the Great Terror , at the height of the Stalinist purges , almost 10,000 people were executed here between October 1937 and December 1938. They can be divided into three groups: According to an archive report, these included 3,500 Karelian residents, 4,500 farmers who emigrated to the north after the forced collectivization in the Soviet Union and were used in the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal , and 1,111 were abandoned brought from the Solovetsky Islands .

The victims include the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917 on November 3, 1937 shot Ukrainians Petro Demtschuk , Hryhorij epic , Pavlo Fylypowytsch , Myroslav Irtschan , Mykola Kulish , Les Kurbas , Mykhaylo Losynskyj , Valerian Pidmohylny , Walerjan Polishchuk , Stepan Rudnyzkyj , Mykola Serow , Alexei Wangenheim and Marko Woronyj . You belong to the generation of executed rebirth . Mykola Lyubynskyj was killed here on January 8, 1938.

Today the place is a memorial.

The place of execution was found in 1997 by the historian and employee of the human rights organization Memorial Yuri Dmitrijew .

Local human rights activists and relatives of the victims were convinced that history should be rewritten in the Sandarmoch area when Russian historians postulated a story about Red Army soldiers shot by Finns in the same area without any really concrete new documents. During a short excavation by the Russian Military Historical Society at the end of August 2018, its critics pointed out dozens of contradictions that the Finnish archives in particular are all open and that there are even copies of the documents in Russian archives of the relevant incidents with Soviet soldiers. According to Katja Gloger, the Russian Military History Society carrying out the excavation is a society that promotes the rehabilitation of Stalin.

Web links

Commons : Sandarmoch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spiegel Online: Stalin researcher sentenced to three and a half years in prison (accessed on July 22, 2020)
  2. ↑ Anna Jarowaja: [The story of] Sandarmoch rewrite. Who and why are trying to change the history of executions and burials in Karelia. (December 13, 2017, Russian, accessed July 22, 2020), Journal 7x7
  3. ↑ "There is a hypothesis by Karelian historians ..." , Novaya Gazeta, September 8, 2018
  4. ↑ In Ordinka, in the clearing , Novaya Gazeta, September 20, 2018
  5. ↑ Katja Gloger: Putin's World: The New Russia, Ukraine and the West , eBook Berlin Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8270-7854-4

Coordinates: 62 ° 51 ′ 48 ″  N , 34 ° 43 ′ 10 ″  E