"Humble Memorials For Stalin’s Victims In Moscow" Topic

"On Wednesday afternoon, a group of Russia's leading architects and graphic designers gathered with civic activists, historians, and journalists for an improvised party at the offices of Memorial, Russia's leading human-rights organization. Memorial, whose main cause is the commemoration of victims of the Soviet Union's Communist regime, has long been under pressure from Putin's government, but this crowd of about twenty people was cheerfully celebrating an improbable joint achievement.

That day, several tiny plaques commemorating Muscovites who were executed by the regime of Joseph Stalin were erected on buildings where the men and women had lived before Stalin's security police took them away to be shot, after weeks or months of interrogations and torture. During the years of the Great Terror, mostly from 1936 to 1938, at least thirty thousand people were executed in Moscow alone. Memorial's archives have confirmed the addresses of about twelve thousand Muscovites who were shot…"
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Armand

One of our presidents referred to Russia's communism as "the noble experiment". UGH!

Tom

Which one was that, Garryowen? And cite a source, pls.

I wonder if the plaques will survive in the long term, if stalin apologists start to tear them down. At least the versions in Germany have no opponents, and the support of the city governments.

I thought Herbert Hoover referred to prohibition as the noble experiment?