Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression was established as a sad date in 1991, shortly before the demise of the Soviet Union as a unified state.
October 30 was the day when commemorate all those who ended his days in the logging of Kolyma, shootings in the cellars of the NKVD, GPU, the Cheka, the MGB and other penal institutions, who served the communist regime.
Why 1937?
part of the truth about what happened to the prisoners on the 58th article, Soviet citizens learned in 1956, having familiarized with the materials of the XX Congress.Intentions are questioning the cornerstone foundation of the socialist state system at the First Secretary of the CPSU, NSKhrushchev was not, he believed in the inevitability of the victory of communism.It was made a bold attempt to convince the workers thought of the random nature of millions of tragedies.
memory of victims of political repression have devoted several episodes feature films, which are usually all ended more or less successfully, and is firmly entrenched in the minds of the number "1937" as a symbol of lawlessness and arbitrariness.Why choose this year?After all, the number of those arrested and shot in the past, and subsequent periods were not less, and sometimes more.
The reason is simple.In 1937, the leadership of the CPSU (b) undertook the cleaning of his own party ranks.The role of the "enemies" tried on those who recently are engaged in determining the degree of loyalty of a citizen when deciding his fate.Such a life is saved permanently collapse.
victims or executioners?
setting the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression, many deputies of the Supreme Council, adhering to Communist beliefs, again tried to convince the public at large, and sometimes themselves that socialism is possible with some special, "human" face.As an example the "bright images" of the Communists-Leninists as Tukhachevsky, Uborevich, Blucher, Zinoviev, Bukharin, Rykov and Kamenev.The calculation was simple, despite the universal access to secondary education and training in high schools, the citizens of the country of the Soviets to the study of the classics of Marxism-Leninism were treated formally, on the principle of "memorized, I passed, forgotten."
assumed that on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression people will remember the shot members of Lenin's Politburo, the executioners of Kronstadt and Tambov, the theoreticians of the proletarian dictatorship and the other representatives of the Bolshevik elite, rehabilitated in the late fifties or in the Gorbachev years.
memory of the people of color
truth, however, is the undeniable fact that the cleaning series the CPSU (b) was quite logical continuation of the general party line on the full suppression of any dissent.Beginning in 1917, it carried a purposeful extermination of the colors of Russian society.Mass executions of peasants, priests, professors, engineers, military, representatives of creative professionals for over twenty years, counting process historical patterns, they came to the applause and joyful hooting Bukharin, Radek, Zinoviev, and the like "true Leninists" as long as they themselvesdo not fall under the ax of Stalin.
the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression can remember those who resisted the totalitarian regime in the post-Stalin years, and there were many.Home sixties marked by several large-scale popular uprisings, broke out in Novocherkassk (1962), Krasnodar (1961), Odessa (1960) and other cities.Executions demonstrations classified trial of "organized" death sentences were the result.
Solovetsky Stone on Lubyanka Square was the place where the Day of memory of victims of repression laid flowers at the former prisoners, their descendants and all who remember the truth or wants to know.Such, unfortunately, is becoming smaller.
