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http://www.memo.ru/eng/index.htm
Memorial is a movement which arose in the years of perestroika. Its main task was the awakening and preservation of the societal memory of the severe political persecution in the recent past of the Soviet Union. A community of dozens of organizations in different regions of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Latvia, and Georgia, Memorial is a museum, a repository of documents, and a number of specialized libraries.
http://www.osa.ceu.hu/GULag
The system of forced labor camps was established in the first years of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union. It became essential part of the Soviet repressive system. The Communist takeovers in the Eastern and Central Europe during the World War II led to mass arrests of non-Communist politicians and people identified as class-enemies. Many of them were sentenced to forced labor camps. In 1952 the International League for the Rights of Man was able to document the existence of more than 400 forced labor camps in Central and Eastern Europe.
http://www.GULag-italia.it
A website on the Italian victims of the Soviet camp system. Created by Fondazione Feltrinelli (Milan) and the Memorial association (Moscow), it consists of three sections: information (maps, chronology, history) on the GULag in general, a database devoted to Italian victims containing 1026 biographical notes, and a full bibliography on the GULag.
The Righteous in and outside the GULags.
Europe has a profound moral debt towards those who succeeded in upholding human dignity under the
communist totalitarian system. Firstly, because such people were often left alone, finding neither solidarity nor a sympathetic ear in western cultural circles, whose enthusiasm for the Soviet Union frequently blinded them to the harsh reality. [> read more]
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Metz Yeghèrn
• Shoah
• GULag
Desaparecidos
Ethnic Cleansing
Yerevan Support
"Memory is the Future"
Sofia Support
the Peshev Memorial
Sarajevo
Support
a "Garden of the Righteous"
in Sarajevo
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