Solovetsky stone
The Solovetsky stone in a memorial stone for the victims of the Stalin dictatorship in Russia.
The memorial was inaugurated on October 30, 1990 in Moscow on Lubyanka Square near the NKVD headquarters . As elsewhere, it is made of a stone taken from the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea . The first large prisoner camp in the Soviet Union was established there. A stone from the islands also serves as a memorial in St. Petersburg.
October 30th is the official day of commemoration of the victims of political repression .
Every year since 2006, in an event organized by Memorial in Moscow , the “Return of Names”, the names of victims of Stalin's repression have been read out on October 29th - in the night of October 30th, for 12 hours. The participants unite "the hope that in this way the social rehabilitation of Stalin can be stopped".
In 2007, on October 30th, President Putin said that the millions murdered or deported were "the most capable, the pride of the nation". He had previously paid tribute to Stalin's contributions to the industrialization of the Soviet Union and to victory in World War II.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Solovetsky Stone. A Reminder of the Horrors of the Past - Date Reference
- ↑ "Solowezki-Stein", memorial in the St. Petersburg Encyclopedia
- ↑ Moscow: Names of Stalin Victims Read Out Publicly , RBTH, November 1, 2016
- ↑ Putin visits memorial to victims of Stalinist Great Terror , New York Times, October 30, 2007
Coordinates: 55 ° 45 ′ 32.9 ″ N , 37 ° 37 ′ 39.4 ″ E