Posted on 03/02/2019 10:01:37 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
The millions of people the Stalin system killed did not disappear into thin air: they were buried typically in mass graves that Russia today has inherited but whose people and officials do not know what to do with them. As a result, they remain a continuing wound on the body of the country, Anastasiya Platonova of Takiye dela says.
The Soviet system has left behind “cemeteries of the victims of political repressions: mass burials of those shot as well as small cemeteries of the camps and special settlements,” she continues. Some have been studied, but most have not, despite the interests of relatives and society in dealing with this legacy.
Once people began to learn the details of the deaths of their ancestors, their first question in many cases she says was “where are they buried?” During the 1990s, some 120 mass graves were identified, Irina Fliga of Memorial says; but taking the next step of identifying individual victims was hampered by lack of records and the resistance of the authorities and the church.
Moreover, many cases – and Platonova documents some of these – officials had already constructed buildings or roads over the sites, making it even more difficult to treat the victims of Stalin with the respect that they deserve. And things have only gotten worse in recent years with the FSB and the Russian Orthodox Church throwing up roadblocks of various kinds.
Some other countries whose populations were victimized by Stalin’s system have shown that it is possible to address this problem more adequately, with Lithuania and Poland being two prominent examples where governments have taken active roles in protecting the graves and identifying as many of the bodies as possible, Platonova says.
Unfortunately, in Russia, one can count on one’s hands the few cases of professional exhumation and personal identification. But what may be even worse, Flige adds, is that “in Russia, there is still no public demand for the personal identification of those who were shot.” There is no agreement among Russians even that every victim should have the right to a grave.
Inherited? they OWN it, they made it happen. Their glorious red revolution didn't happen by itself.
Good point.
Supposedly the 2 countries with the largest number of unmarked mass graves are Cambodia and Spain but for some reason Russia and China never get mentioned.
They should be plotted and established as memorials to those who were sacrificed to the evils of Stalin & communism.
I firmly believe parts of the left wing movement here in the US would try to do this very thing here if they gained power.
This nation is not immune to this happening.
What to do with them?
That’s easy. Start tourism to the sites and advertise to Democrats. They could offer “How To” seminars during the visits to the site. Maybe even add Kalishnikov training. As a special bonus, they could offer side trips to the Gulags with additional seminars on how to extract the truth from deniers and how to get the most out of your forced labor slaves.
This would be a HUGE moneymaker for the Russians.
Has Occasional Cortex blamed President Trump for this yet?
This type of blood letting is the inevitable result of Occasional Cortex’s (or rather her handlers’) policies.
Old Russia is the same as new Russia....
and AOC wants a green revolution, with a similar outcome. lets ask Bernie!
I used to read a lot about Stalin in his crimes. However, I am convinced the body count would have been just as high with Lenin and Trotsky at the top. Stalin probably eliminated more high-ranking commissars than the others would have, due to his paranoia; but the same amount of Kulaks would have died.
Socialism kills.
See my tag line.
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We know from Bible prophecy, that God will bring a terrible judgement upon Russia, and upon her military.
They did much evil as they moved west after the tide turned with the battle of Stalingrad. Their soldiers were madmen, even raping Russian female labor camp survivors, and enslaving much of Eastern Europe.
God remembers, and He will NOT be mocked...
And yes, America will not far behind them, on our own road to judgement.
Led by the New York Times, the world media have conspired to deny the mass murder in the former Soviet Union and Communist China. The surrogate world criminals have been Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, whose behavior deserve every condemnation that they receive, but they also serve to help mask the crimes of communist states. Their genocide has been wished into the corn field as if it never occurred.
Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible
any more than peaceful coexistence with Islam.
Both are totalitarian ideologies bent on world domination.
Mass Graves , the place Stalin put all of Russia’s Smart People
The residents of Russia today inherited it just like we’ve inherited America.
Reckon you had a Freeper ol' time favorite video in mind.
Simply why the American left want all of the guns. Mass graves are our future if the leftists get their way. If they were honest, they would admit,they would not mind making every Conservative and Christian simply disappear one way or another.
Leave them alone to rest in peace, remember them for your own sake so that it is not allowed to happen again.
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