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Запустил YouTube Расследования КАРАГОДИНА

Теперь я еженедельно рассказываю о ходе Расследования КАРАГОДИНА на YouTube-канале проекта.

To Save the NKVD Garage, Tomsk Removed a Memorial

The Stone of Sorrow, a memorial to victims of Soviet political repression, was dismantled at night under the official explanation that a former NKVD garage had to be protected — part of the infrastructure associated with the “black vans” of the Great Terror.

The official version invites us to discuss the garage. But the way the dismantling was carried out forces a different discussion: the disappearance of public memory. The garage is the explanation. Memory is the object of action.

Final Note: On the Removal of the Stone of Sorrow

I woke up to a city in which, overnight, the Stone of Sorrow — a memorial to the victims of political repression — had been dismantled. From that moment on, the task was not only to understand what had happened, but to document it as it unfolded. That is what I could do. And that is what I have done.

Memory Wars: Mirroring Dynamics Between Russia and Europe

Conflicts over memory between states — and within them

Memory, Mirrored Asymmetry, and the Politics of Removal

The demolition of the Stone of Sorrow memorial in Tomsk marks another moment in the unfolding “memory wars” between Russia and Europe — a conflict in which struggles over monuments reflect deeper contestation over historical narratives, state identity, and the foundations upon which they are built.

После Томска, следующий на очереди, видимо, Соловецкий камень в Москве

In English

Думаю, что следующим закономерным шагом, после сноса мемориального камня жертвам политических репрессий в Томске, последует почти гарантированная попытка убрать Соловецкий камень с Лубянской площади в Москве. Я не вижу ни одной причины, чтобы этого не произошло. Нужно быть к этому готовым. В этом смысле, Томск сейчас — это испытательный полигон. Буду рад, если ошибусь; но, скорее всего, нет.