KGB refuse to commemorate Stalin's victims
The Belarus State Security Committee (KGB) does not deem it reasonable to set up a national organizing committee for the commemoration of the victims of repressions during the Stalin rule, wrote the KGB Chairman Sciapan Sukharenka in respond to academician Radzim Harecki, who co-chairs a public organizing committee for the commemoration of the Stalin regime's victims.
Setting ip a new structure would require additional staff in the government and extra money to fund it, but it is not reasonable, Sukharenka suggested.
The public committee, comprising historians, writers, former political prisoners, proposes to make the year of 2007 as The Memory Year to mark the unseen repressions against the people of Belarus during the Stalin rule. The committee have also proposed to make October 29 as The Memory Day for the victims of the Stalin's repressions.
The committee is to issue a call to the people of Belarus and the Belarusians in the world within the next several days.
