“Parents were always silent about it”
Author Alesya Zaslavskaya October 29, 2025 read: 22 min. Since 2022, in Russia, according to Memorial, more than a hundred monuments and plaques dedicated to those repressed during the Soviet period have been damaged and dismantled. But there are also opposite examples. In the Kalmyk village of Shin-Mer in 2023, residents chipped in for a memorial to their fellow countrymen who were deported to Siberia in December 1943 by order of Stalin.
