Another 23/03/20 Sandarmokh: the worst place to Solovki prisoners
In the 1930-ies among Soviet citizens went to a legend that the prisoners of Stalin’s camps are loaded into barges, taken to the White sea and just dumped into the water. As you know, any rumors usually have a factual basis. Indeed, Solovki prisoners actually transported on barges, but they were not drowned, but was sent to the last journey in Sandarmokh.
the Rules for executions
August 16, 1937 to the head of the NKVD in Leningrad region Zakovsky received the order No. 59190 “On completion of the operation for the repression of the most active counterrevolutionary elements from those in the prisons gugb”. The document was signed by Commissar of state security Yezhov. According to the test order, the surgery was held during 2 months, starting on 25 August of the same year. It is noteworthy that the order was planned not only the timing and order of actions, but also the exact number of prisoners of the Solovki prison, which had to be shot around 1200 people.
In the first place recommended to erase from the earth those who have been convicted as a saboteur, a terrorist, a spy, a rebel, a bandit or a member of the anti-Soviet party. Every prisoner was obliged to consider the so-called Troika of the NKVD representatives not judicial, but only administrative apparatus.
Grave for seven thousand
representatives of the administration of Leningrad region and administration of the Solovki prison found mass shootings excellent location – Sandarmokh near the Karelian town of Medvezhyegorsk. It was there from 27 October to 4 November 1937, found his last resting 1111 prisoners of the Solovki prison. The order of Yezhov was executed in almost complete accordance with the regulations.
In fact, historians found that Sandarmokh was used for executions since the 19th34. The tract became a huge grave for thousands of innocent people. From 1934 to 1941 there were executed more than 7 thousand people. It was the Solovki prisoners, deportees, forced labour camps “Belbaltlag” who were engaged in the construction and maintenance of the famous white sea-Baltic canal, as well as ordinary Soviet citizens.
No-fault
the Remains of those killed in Sandarmokh was discovered relatively recently in 1997. On an area more than 7.5 hectares, researchers have found 236 pits, and falling body after being shot in the head.
Among the innocent victims were representatives of completely different professions (simple fishermen and peasants, writers and poets, priests and teachers, etc.), 11 religious denominations (Muslims, Jews, Orthodox, etc.), 60 nationalities (Russians, Germans, Jews, poles, Lithuanians, Ingush, Chechens, Ukrainians, etc.). The vast majority of those executed were rehabilitated, unfortunately, already marked with “posthumously”.
Yulia Popova
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