Kolyma: FSB officers will collect data on political prisoners

In the Magadan region, the Public Chamber (OP) announced plans to collect data on the number of political prisoners and exiles to the Dalstroy camps on criminal and military articles. Among the researchers there are only two professional historians, but there are former FSB officers, acting prosecutors, police officers and politicians, reports the GRTK-Magadan.

"Letters with invitations [to participate in the study] are sent to the senator from the Magadan region Anatoly Shirokov, the chief scientific employee of the Museum of Local Lore Alexander Navasardov, leading the scientific employee of SVKNIY Alexander Lebedintsev. Publicist Peter Tsybulkin (ex-employee of the FSB), blogger-coaster was invited to the working group. Vasily Obraztsov, veteran of the FSB Taimurazov, as well as representatives of the prosecutor's office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, ”the press release of OP says.

Among the tasks of the “group”, the publication of the certificate is indicated with reliable information about how many “Dalstroy” were the so -called political, and as many criminals and war criminals among the prisoners. ” The officials substantiated the need for such a document by the fact that the history of Dalstroy "was repeatedly consciously distorted and overgrown with myths."

• During the Stalinist mass political repression from the end of the 1920 to the beginning of the 1950s, millions of people suffered. According to documented data, only in 1937-1938 for political reasons 1,344,923 people were convicted, of which 681,692 were sentenced to death. Official data on the number of prisoners on Kolyma over time only increased. According to the data for 1938, 90,741 people were contained in SevvoStlag, including those convicted of "counter-revolutionary crimes" (34,569 people; 58th "political" article). As of January 1, 1952, the data is higher - 154,453 prisoners, of which 17,823 women. For the "political" 58th article of the Criminal Code - 29,465 people.
• In July 2022, a monument to the Chekists was opened in Magadan.