Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus

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The Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus (

Soviet
repression in Belarus.

Background

In 2007, the Belarusian Christian Democracy party launched a campaign called "Repentance". The campaign began meeting with former prisoners of camps, record their memories, and collect materials on the subject of repression.[2]

In 2012, an independent civic initiative was formed, which began to create a Virtual museum of Soviet repression in Belarus. The basis for the museum was materials collected during the campaign "Repentance".[citation needed]

In 2014, a website for the virtual museum was created.[3] The museum is only available online; there is currently as of 2020 no physical exhibition of the material.

Photograph from the mid-1930s showing members of the Belarusian Shatila family, whose story is told in the virtual museum.

Concept of the museum

The

Soviet time. The museum covers a part of Belarusian history that is mainly excluded from current Belarusian official historiography.[4]

Example of a military court ruling during Soviet times from 1956 from the virtual museum.

The content of the exhibition consists of recordings of audio- and video-recollections,[5] photographs, documents, and statistics connected with repression in Belarus. Also, a chronicle of the repression in Belarus and some historical articles are included.

As of 2020, the museum includes seven showrooms:[6]

  • Soviet myths
  • Chronology of repression
  • Victims of repression
  • The system of repression
  • Anti-Soviet resistance
  • Rehabilitation
  • Commemorative culture

Among the museum's special features are, besides the narrative interviews, inter alia interactive maps of the NKVD[7] in Belarus, and memorials on repression.[8] In addition, the museum offers a victim-search option with more than 30,000 records.[9]

Kurapaty site near Minsk in Belarus.

Partners

Among the partners of this project are Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Belarusian Oral History Archive project.[10]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-1108195829
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  2. ^ "BCD campaign "Repentance"". bchd.info (in Belarusian).
  3. ^ "Radio Racyja - Internet museum about repressions victims created". racyja.com (in Belarusian). 29 October 2014. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  4. ^ "Historian: The theme of Stalin political repression is not reflected in schoolbook either in movies". Naviny.by (in Russian). 28 February 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  5. ^ "Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus". YouTube. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  6. ^ "Залы | Музей савецкіх рэпрэсій". represii.net. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  7. ^ "КАРАТЕЛЬНЫЕ ОРГАНЫ". represii.net (in Belarusian). Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  8. ^ "ПАМЯТНИКИ И МЕМОРИАЛЬНЫЕ ЗНАКИ". represii.net (in Russian). Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  9. ^ "ПОИСК РЕПРЕССИРОВАННЫХ". represii.net (in Belarusian). Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  10. ^ "ПРА ПРАЕКТ". represii.net (in Belarusian). Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus. Retrieved May 24, 2015.

External links

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