The FSB refused to give the historian the case with the names of the victims of repression

The Federal Security Service again refused to issue a Protocol of the SPECIAL Troika of the NKVD with information about convicts in 1937-1938 to the researcher Sergei Prudovsky. About this writes "Kommersant".

The historian said to the Office of the FSB in Moscow and the Moscow Region that the documents have confidential data (surnames of three members), the distribution of which is limited "for official necessity."

Prudovsky appealed to Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow. He noted that he has long known the names of people from the composition of the triples, since in accordance with the order of the NKVD of the USSR they included the head of the NKVD department, the first secretary of the regional party and the regional prosecutor. According to the historian, he is interested in the names of the repressed. In addition, Prudovsky said that the term of the GOSTaina protection according to the documents of 1938 was expired in 2013.

The documents are declassified, but the procedure for access to them was not stipulated, they answered in the FSB. FSB lawyer Elena Zimatkina stated in court that Prudovsky calls the NKVD employees and believes that their "shame should be eternal, indelible." In her opinion, this position "can harm both now living relatives of officials who signed the protocols and an objective assessment of the historical period of 1937-1938." The court agreed with the position of the FSB and refused to the researcher.

Prudovsky believes that the FSB does not want society to know why the repressed ones were shot, as these are invented accusations.

After the court, Prudovsky again sent a request to the FSB with a request to issue protocols without specifying the names of the Troika members. He was again refused, citing the law "On Information", and offered to inform the names of the repressed for the issuance of an archive certificate.

Moscow researcher Sergei Prudovsky has been engaged in the history of the Harbin operation of the NKVD in 1937-1938 for 9 years . The number of victims is known, but all the names of the victims of repression are still not clarified. In September 1938, when thousands of cases of the arrested accumulated, they began to be considered by the special three NKVD. On November 25, 1938, 170 people were convicted with a special three.

Special triples under the Office of the NKVD acted during the years of large terror. The decisions, including the execution, were made without trial and in the absence of the accused. In half a year alone, by the end of 1937, more than a million people were repressed in the USSR.

Nikita Petrov, Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Council of Scientific and Educational Center "Memorial", considers the refusal to issue documents illegal from the point of view of the Federal Law "On Archival Affairs". Documents are very important for the history of repression and should not be a secret. The surnames of the members of the Trook, who made non -legal decisions, must also be announced, he noted. However, he added that there are more and more facts of closing access to archival documents in Russia and this is a “sad sign of time”.