Reins on remembrances: 70 years after Stalin’s purge, candor has its limits
By Marsha Lipman | Wednesday, August 22, 2007 | The Washington Post
“This month marks 70 years since the drastic surge of Stalin’s terror: In 1937 the Kremlin butcher scrapped even the faintest appearance of court procedures. The infamous “troika trials” — a system of justice by rubber-stamped death sentences — killed more than 436,000 in one year. The anniversary observances were intended to honor the victims. But the ceremony held earlier this month at Butovo, the site of mass killings on the outskirts of Moscow, revealed the government’s desire to keep the public’s mind off reflections about terror and its perpetrators….”…BS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082101418_pf.html
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