Stalin Terror Victims Remembrance Day
Tbilisi. On July 30, SovLab will hold a commemoration of the victims of Stalin's terror at the Cheka House (22 Ingoroqva St., Tbilisi).
This year, the event will focus on the 1924 anti-Soviet national uprising and memory of victims the Soviet totalitarian regime claimed in its aftermath. This year, Georgia marks 100 years since the August 1924 uprising. At the event members of Sovlab and representatives of public will read and honor names of Georgian patriots killed following the uprising’s suppression.
Photographs of the victims will also be displayed.
The Stalin Terror Victims Remembrance Day is marked on July 30 because on that day in 1930 the Soviet People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs, the infamous NKVD issued decree No 004447, unleashing one of the bloodiest waves of Stalin’s terror campaign here in Georgia and throughout the Soviet Union.
The building located at 22 Ingorokva Street in Tbilisi – The Cheka House – is perhaps the only surviving monument to the tens of thousands of Georgians exterminated by the industrial-scale killing machine put in place immediately after the Soviet occupation of Georgia. The establishment of Cheka, the Soviet secret police, was the very first decree the 11th Red Army issued when it entered Tbilisi on February 25, 1921, during the Soviet invasion of Georgia.
Source: SovLab
