The Russian state is willing to go to great lengths to ensure that the horrors of the Soviet Union don't emerge, including jailing those that look a bit too closely at history
The closure of the civil society organisation International Memorial, which documented historical abuses of the former Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin's purges of dissenters against his regime’s brutal rule, has ignited a fierce debate around remembering the past crimes of what many called the Red Empire.
Set up in 1989, the NGO set itself the task of compiling a database of the "Victims of Political Terror in the USSR." , included more than 130,000 names of victims of the Soviet purges who would end up in a vast industrial system of gulags, where many died. Following Stalin's death in 1956, the Communist leader Nikita Khrushchev, in a secret speech to the party faithful, denounced Stalin's cult of personality and his brutal reign. Thousands of political prisoners were freed from Stalin's labour camps for a brief moment.
Soviet resolve over the Nazis had "saved the entire world," Putin boasted while decrying western powers of forgetting the historic debt.
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