Statkevich calls to pay tribute to Belarusian victims of Stalin-era terror near KGB in Minsk


The action ‘The Chain of Remembrance’, scheduled for Oct. 29, is to draw people’s attention to Stalinists’ crimes against the Belarusian nation and put an end to crimes of present-day successors of NKVD-KGB executioners, Mikalai Statkevich, a former political prisoner and 2010 presidential candidate, said on Facebook.

“It is of critical importance that we honour the burial of the victims of repressions. If we do not dare even to come with candles to places where they were tortured and sentenced to death, other burials will appear soon. To those who have the determination to take part in the action: please do not take any flags or banners – just bring candles or oil lamps. If you do not have them, we will come up with something on the spot. In the view of civilized countries with which our so called preident so badly wants to come to terms, atacking a person with a candle is simply absurd.”

The event is to take place on Thursday at 18:30.

In 1937, on the night of 29 to 30 October, Soviet chekists executed more than 100 representatives of the Belarusian intellectual elite, mainly writers.

List of prominent cultural and public figures killed in October 29–30, 1937 executions in Belarus

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