Text taken from an article posted at dzen.ru by historian and journalist Aleksandr Stepanov
About the excursion to Sandarmokh
Today is October 30th. Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression. And so I read on social networks: “The Central Library of Kostomuksha invites schoolchildren from grades 9 to 11 to attend a bus excursion to the memorial site “Sandarmokh” (Medvezhyegorsky district). The excursion is dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression.
We invite you to visit with us the place of memory established in honor of the people who gave their lives in those terrible and tragic years, to get to know the history of this day and this place. Payment for the ticket using the Pushkin card."
It's a long drive from Kostomuksha to Sandarmokh. The Karelian village of Rugozero will be closer, but there is also a grave of victims of political terror there. In 1921, during the so-called Karelian adventure, the whites there shot Karelians - supporters of Soviet power. Don’t these people look like “victims of political repression”? Are these the “wrong” victims?
Well, good, because in the Medvezhyegorsk district itself there is not only Sandarmokh. According to historians, in May 1919, when the Medvezhya Gora station was occupied by interventionist and White Guard troops, it became the site of massacres. A White Guard counterintelligence department operated here, and a concentration camp was created for captured Red Army soldiers, Red partisans, communists and Soviet activists. Many dozens of them died in the Medvezhyegorsk dungeons. After the liberation of the station by the Red Army, the victims of the White Terror were buried in a mass grave on the street. Kommunarov. The total number of those buried is unknown. Or are these also “wrong” victims? Or just “unpromoted”?
Unlike Sandarmokh, whose name, through the efforts of liberal propaganda, was simply hammered into the heads of a huge mass of people. Despite the fact that there are simply no six, seven and a half, and even more so nine and a half thousand people executed in Sandarmokh. This is just the opinion of Yuri Dmitriev, a defendant in a criminal case under pedophile articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. But it is in vain to try to extract from his fans at least one piece of evidence of these figures. They are silent.
Somewhere in the vicinity of Medvezhyegorsk, the so-called “Solovetsky stage” was actually shot. Now they take people there using the “Pushkin card,” which seems to have been created for the cultural education of young people. Forgetting to tell the backstory of this sad event. And forgetting to tell you that the largest category at this stage was made up of Ukrainian nationalists!
Yes, in the second year of the SVO and the fight against Ukrainian fascism, Russian schoolchildren are taken to the place of execution of “the flower of Ukrainian nationalism.” Which became one of the symbols of Bandera propaganda:
Once again I will give several examples from the list of those executed in Sandarmokh:
- Stepan Rudnitsky, author of the now popular book in Ukraine “Why we want an independent Ukraine.” It states that Ukrainians are a kind of special race, which is better not to mix with all sorts of Muscovites and Poles, and they also need their own state and living space: “...On the other hand, combinations with Poles, Muscovites, Romanians, Turko-Tatars, Jews, etc.” Who doesn’t understand now why citizen Rudnitsky faced such a fate in 1937?
- Minister of Education of the UPR Anton Krushelnitsky, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the UPR Nikolai Lyubinsky and Vladimir Chekhovsky, chairman of the Council of People's Ministers of the Ukrainian People's Republic were also shot in Sandarmokh. According to biographers, during the latter’s premiership, the UPR government approved laws on the state language of Ukraine (Ukrainian only) and on the autocephaly of the UOC. The topics are very relevant and very pressing, as if not even 100 years have passed since that time...
- Sadovsky Gennady Leonidovich. In 1919, military commandant of Zhitomir. It’s easy to find information about the events in Zhitomir on the Internet: “When Zhitomir fell into the hands of the Petliurites, they robbed, raped, tortured and killed Jews again and again. They burst into Jewish apartments shouting “Down with the communists!” or “Come on women!” Every day crowds of men were escorted to the station and there they were shot.”
Yes, on the list of those executed in Sandarmokh there are a lot of Petliura officers who in one way or another participated in the genocide of the Jewish population. (I already wrote about this topic in the publication: What’s wrong with Yuri Shevchuk’s grandfather? | Alexander Stepanov | Zen (dzen.ru)
Well, at least now there should be an understanding that inflating the topic of repressions, including Sandarmokh, was not necessary to preserve the memory of that part of the repressed who suffered in vain? This was necessary for the cultivation in the vastness of Eastern Europe of new forms of fascism, the most wretched in its provincialism. So you got it... And we still take excursions there using the “Pushkin map”... And here is a photo from the event in Sandarmokh on August 5, 2023:
You need to understand that the history of not a single modern state has been without political repression. And it doesn’t work out, as we can observe these days in various parts of the globe.
In this regard, it is very stupid to imagine our country as a unique “Mordor” in world history, which simply destroyed its own citizens. Did the new society created in our country since 1917 have real and numerous enemies? Were. Did they themselves want to carry out mass reprisals against their opponents? They wanted to, there is enough evidence for this.
Consequently, the Soviet government had every right to self-defense. After all, if the Whites had won, everything would have been much worse (See the publication HOW THE BOLSHEVIKS SAVED RUSSIA FROM BLOODY TERROR).
Do you want to celebrate October 30 as the day of remembrance for victims of political repression? Okay, but then on this day mention the many thousands of victims of the white terror, then don’t forget their graves. You can even start with those killed on Bloody Sunday...
Or is it impossible to do this for ideological reasons?