Ilya Shablinsky: We would do well to remember every bloody milestone in our history. We know how easily human life can be devalued.

3 June 2022 by Ilya Shablinsky, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group Novocherkassk, 1962. We remember. Yesterday, 2 June 2022, marked 60 years to the day…

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Remember the Date. Stalin’s body was removed from the Mausoleum on Red Square on 31 October 1961

On 31 October 1961 the body of Joseph Stalin, eight years after his death, was removed from the Mausoleum on Red Square where it had lain next to that of…

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