Tbilisi. The office of the "Open Society – Georgia” Foundation has hosted the presentation of the publication "Rethinking Soviet Past – Discussions 2011” and the film "Great Soviet Terror: Human Stories”, prepared and produced by the Soviet Past Research Laboratory.The publication "Rethinking Soviet Past – Discussions 2011” includes the text versions of discussions that the Soviet Past Research Laboratory has held in the Goethe Institute during one year. Topic of the discussions was rethinking the Soviet past and covered numerous important issues – Soviet writing, cinema, architecture, Soviet and post-Soviet nationalism, Stalin’s repressions and deportations, prohibited literature, dissidents’ activities, dissolution of the Soviet Union, lustration policy, etc.The film "Great Soviet Terror: Human Stories” tells the stories of individuals and their family members repressed during the Stalin’s rule. The film consistently tells the events developing in Georgia in 1921-1956 and demonstrates the impact that this process had on various families and individuals.This project aims to facilitate the research of the Soviet totalitarian past for rethinking the political, legal and moral responsibility of the Soviet heritage.

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