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National Review
December 23, 2002
God's Commie
The ongoing achievement of Alexander Yakovlev
By David Pryce-Jones
This summer they were carrying out restoration work in the basement of the Russian Supreme Court in Moscow, and discovered down there a number of skeletons from Stalin's day. In a courthouse. Imagine it. These were men and women on whom the death sentence had just been passed; they were hurried downstairs, shot in the back of the head, and shoved into a cellar to rot. Also this summer, workmen at the Vasilyansky monastery, near Zhovkva in Ukraine, happened to dig up 225 bodies of victims also shot in the back of the head. Acting on a survivor's tip, the Russians have also been digging on the Zhevsky artillery range, northeast of St. Petersburg. Tens of thousands of victims are believed to lie in random trenches there, men and women arrested and never heard of again. In the nearby village of Levashyovo alone there's a mass grave of 24,000. Helplessness in the face of injustice and horror throughout the Soviet Union; executioners brandishing revolvers; trucks, shots, screams, and afterwards the cover-up, the lying. Imagine it. Andrei Sakharov, the celebrated nuclear physicist turned dissident, was instrumental in founding Memorial, a voluntary association dedicated to rehabilitating the victims of Soviet Communism, estimated to be about 60 million people, or the entire population of Britain today. Memorial aims not to punish, but to keep the record. Commenting on the grisly discoveries on the Zhevsky artillery range, Irina Flige, a Memorial official, said that failure to have a full accounting of the crimes committed under Stalin reverberates through Russian society today.
Children over the age of twelve could be executed, while those under three were taken away from parents who had been arrested, never to be seen again. (http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/6598-13.cfm)
Dec. 13, 2002: #6598 #6599
#13 - JRL 6598
National Review
December 23, 2002
God's Commie
The ongoing achievement of Alexander Yakovlev
By David Pryce-Jones
This summer they were carrying out restoration work in the basement of the Russian Supreme Court in Moscow, and discovered down there a number of skeletons from Stalin's day. In a courthouse. Imagine it. These were men and women on whom the death sentence had just been passed; they were hurried downstairs, shot in the back of the head, and shoved into a cellar to rot. Also this summer, workmen at the Vasilyansky monastery, near Zhovkva in Ukraine, happened to dig up 225 bodies of victims also shot in the back of the head. Acting on a survivor's tip, the Russians have also been digging on the Zhevsky artillery range, northeast of St. Petersburg. Tens of thousands of victims are believed to lie in random trenches there, men and women arrested and never heard of again. In the nearby village of Levashyovo alone there's a mass grave of 24,000. Helplessness in the face of injustice and horror throughout the Soviet Union; executioners brandishing revolvers; trucks, shots, screams, and afterwards the cover-up, the lying. Imagine it. Andrei Sakharov, the celebrated nuclear physicist turned dissident, was instrumental in founding Memorial, a voluntary association dedicated to rehabilitating the victims of Soviet Communism, estimated to be about 60 million people, or the entire population of Britain today. Memorial aims not to punish, but to keep the record. Commenting on the grisly discoveries on the Zhevsky artillery range, Irina Flige, a Memorial official, said that failure to have a full accounting of the crimes committed under Stalin reverberates through Russian society today.
Children over the age of twelve could be executed, while those under three were taken away from parents who had been arrested, never to be seen again. (http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/6598-13.cfm)