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The Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions has been marked at the Wall of Grief in the Russian capital on October 30. The Memory Foundation and the Gulag History Museum organized the Bell of Memory public action. The opportunity to strike the symbolic bell honoring the memory of people killed and injured in the camps is provided to each participant of the action, TASS reports.
The bell is made of a rail delivered from Solovki – the camp, located on the territory of the Solovetsky Islands and a well-known monastery in the 1920s-1930s. It became the first in an extensive system of Soviet corrective institutions where political prisoner served their sentences. The rail bell is hit with a metal shaft brought from Kolyma where the most terrible and mass camps were located. Gulag History Museum director Roman Romanov called the bell sound symbolic. The action began in the morning in Moscow. It will end at 10 pm. Another Moscow rally, Voice of Memory, will commemorate the victims of repressions on the former NKVD training ground in the Butovo district which was the place of death for tens of thousands of people.
Memorial Day events traditionally held on October 30 began with a rally in Magadan near the monument made by Ernst Neizvestny. Actions are held on Tuesday in the Ural, in the Leningrad Region, in the Krasnodar Kray and in other regions and cities of the country.
The number of people suffered from political repressions is unknown, historians name the figure of ten million people.
Russkiy Mir
