[NorseViking]

“” “” Olga Gureyeva, was arrested at the end of 1945 after the Soviets took back the region from the Nazis. Aged 16 at the time, she was arrested with her family for supposed Nazi collaboration and, after repeated beatings during interrogation, sentenced to 20 years of hard labour.”” “”

She didn’t serve even ten years of her term. Did she?
All because Gulag was dismantled in 1950s, Stalinism condemned and Stalinists purged.

How any of that is relevant 70 years later?

[Rashputin]

The article is all crap anyway, based entirely on the opinion of the Guardian reporter that people solemnly walking past the monument to victims of the Gulag and crossing themselves as they pass were, "too quiet". Nation wide people did the same thing, they solemnly paid their respects to victims of the Gulag.

The intrepid Guardian reporter must think the people should have been screaming, carrying signs, throwing Molotov Cocktails, looting shops, and tearing up police cars to properly show their respect for the victims.