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Memorial Day
The names of the victims of large terror sounded at 120 points in the world
On August 5, on the day of memory of the victims of great terror, the names of the repressed at the Sandarmokh training ground were read around the world.
August 5, 1937 - the date of the beginning of the operation by order 00447 "On the operation to repress former fists, criminals and other anti -Soviet elements." On this day, mass executions of large terror began.
The Memorial Day was established in 1998 at the open search expeditions of Benjamin Iof and Yuri Dmitriev by a firing training ground in the Karelian tract Sandarmokh, which is 19 km from Medvezhygorsk, the capital of Belbaltlag.
Sandarmokh is an international place of memory, there are people of 56 nationalities. At the moment, 6241 name is known.
Thank you for the photo and video Society "International Memorial"*.