Archeologists Find New Pits at Stalin-Era Moscow Mass Grave May 21, 2021 Archeologists have discovered 47 additional pits at the site of the Kommunarka firing range, bringing the total to 134. New Moscow Forum / new.msk.ru
Dozens of new pits have been discovered in a notorious Stalin-era execution site outside Moscow where more than 10,000 political dissidents are believed to be buried, the Kommersant business daily reported Thursday.
The existence of the mass grave in southwestern Moscow’s district of Kommunarka became known when the KGB opened its archives, before abruptly closing them, in the last days of the Soviet Union. Its successor, Russia s FSB, estimates that up to 14,000 people were shot and thrown into mass graves at the Kommunarka firing range between 1937-1941.
A lifetime sentence : children of the gulag fight to return from exile
Millions of Soviet citizens were sent to vast network of prison camps under Stalin. Now their descendants seek recompense
Alisa Meissner (C) is seen in Russia’s constitutional court alongside other descendants of Gulag survivors. Photograph: Alexander Koryakov
Alisa Meissner (C) is seen in Russia’s constitutional court alongside other descendants of Gulag survivors. Photograph: Alexander Koryakov
Tue 23 Feb 2021 01.00 EST
Alisa Meissner is paying to this day for the Soviet Union’s decision to exile her whole family from Moscow for their German heritage.
She still lives in a town just 30 miles from the gulag village where her family were sent in the 1940s after the outbreak of the second world war. And despite the rehabilitation of her exiled family, the denunciation of Joseph Stalin and the collapse of the Soviet Union, she has never been able to leave.
Žudantys prisiminimai ir laisvė lageriuose – šiandien Rusijoje trinama Gulagų istorija lrt.lt - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lrt.lt Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.