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Museum detailing Tsarist, Stalinist repression opens in Samarkand
Unedited translation from RussianTASHKENT - [REGNUM] The museum of "memory of the victims of Stalinist repressions" was opened on the territory of the faculty of geography and ecology of the Samarkand State University (SamSU), the "Detailed.uz" edition reported on September 3. The museum tells about the so-called struggle of the local population for freedom from Tsarist Russia, about the "national revival" (1901-1917), as well as about the collapse of the unrecognized state of "Turkestan autonomy". In the museum periods are distinguished from 1937 to 1938 and from 1940 to 1950, which were called "political repression." The chairman of the republican fund "In memory of the victims of repression" Bakhtiyor Khasanov said that the seventh museum on this subject opens in the Samarkand region. As reported BakuToday , August 31, Uzbekistan held events in honor of the Day of Victims of Repression, which was established by the first President of the Republic Islam Karimov in 2001. Representatives of the post-Soviet authorities in Uzbekistan cultivate in the people myths about the "awful position of Uzbekistan" in the composition of Russia and the USSR. Did you know that August 31st is the Russian commemoration of Day of Remembrance of Victims of Repression? Posted by: badanov 2018-09-04 |
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