USSR Secret Police Museum Exposes Communist Crimes
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In the city of Tomsk, Russia, located in the basement
of the building Lenin Avenue 44 is the Memorial Museum,
Remand Prison of the NKVD.
NKVD was the predecessor of the KGB.
This museum opened in 1996.
The red scare atmosphere was maintained
by the secret police during the cold war.
Our commentators believe the red scare in China today
far exceeds what the Russians experienced.
A former Soviet secret police office was hidden
in the basement of a two-story red brick building
in the middle of Tomsk, a Siberian town.
After the October Revolution, the basement became
a secret prison and an office of the secret police.
The victims included many intellectuals, poets and artists.
Between 1923 and 1944, during Stalin's Great Purge political
campaign, this building served as a prison courtyard.
The adjacent area became a burial ground.
This building has been retained as a museum to expose the
horrible history of terror and the nation's totalitarian past.
Xia Xiaoqiang, Ccommentator: The greatest historical
tragedy of the last century is this evil red caused
by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The tyranny of communism will only bring famine, war,
bloodshed and killing.
Following the end of the Communist regime in Russia,
a museum exposing the red terror helps to reflect the history
and warn descendants.
In a Dec. 2nd report, Voice of America introduced
the Remand Prison of the NKVD.
This memorial museum exhibits torture instruments
and numerous photos of victims on the wall,
many who were tortured to death.
Museum director Vasily Khanevich said that
in the Stalin era, 500,000 people were deported to Tomsk,
and half of the people died due to disease, cold and hunger.
Khanevich said the political persecution began
at the beginning of the Communist Party ruling.
Zhang Jian, activist: The exhibition shows the world
the shocking facts (of the Communist terror)
and demonstrates the greatest lesson
of remembering the past.
Current incidents will accumulate and become the past.
In Nazi times, people did not believe in the existence
of Auschwitz concentration camps.
In the Soviet era, they did not believe that
Stalin was persecuting his own people.
Talking with the Press after visiting the Butovo Memorial Site
on October 30, 2007 in memory of the victims who died
in the Great Purge, Russian President Vladimir Putin said,
Such tragedies have occurred more than once in the history
of mankind.
And they happened when ideals, ideals that were attractive
at first glance but proved empty in the end,
were placed higher than fundamental values --
the values of human life, human rights and freedom.
Zhang Jian: Every one of the tortures has happened
mainly in countries governed by totalitarian dictatorships,
especially China, Cuba, and North Korea.
Every day, people in these countries suffer from
systematic and organized killing.
In China, since the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners
in 1999, the Chinese Communist Party has killed with torture,
at least 3,727 documented and identified
Falun Gong practitioners.
According to Falun Gong practitioners who escaped from
China, the CCP employs more than 40 to 80 different kinds
of torture measures which exceed the limit the human body
can withstand.
Xia Xiaoqiang, commentator: Compared to the USSR,
the CCP has caused Red Terror worse than Russia.
The CCP destroy the Chinese not only physically,
but also mentally.
They kill the soul and ideas of the Chinese, and control them
with propaganda lies, violence and horror.
After the Third Plenary Session, the state security committee
established the National Security Council to serve as a super
department above the law and a secret tool to suppress
dissidents, just like the secret police during the Stalin era.
《神韵》2013世界巡演新亮点
International Folk Music Festival Play, the accordion! named after Gennady Zavolokin [subtitled]
Gennadiy Dmitrievich Zavolokin – was born on 18 March in 1948 in the taiga village Parabel of the Tomsk region, then the family had
moved to the village of Suzun in Novosibirsk region. There, in the
Suzun, a father has bought first accordion for his young sons.
Later in one of his interviews, Gennadiy Zavolokin would say this words about his parents, Dmitry Zakharovich and Stepanida Elizarovna: From the childhood in front of us was a good example of good human relations, love for relatives, diligence in work, honoring the Law of God.
After school — the College years (1964 to 1968) studied at the Novosibirsk musical College in the Department of orchestra of Russian folk instruments.
Then he studied in the Moscow Institute of culture (1984). From 1974 to 1991 he worked in the Novosibirsk Philharmonic. Together with his brother Alexander he created the Duo of ditties-speakers. In 1986 Zavolokin brothers became Distinguished artists of the
Russia.
Since 1986 — leading the program Play, an accordion (the First national channel).
In 1987 he organized and headed the ensemble the Chastooshka and in 1992 Russian center Play, an accordion. For several years he was the author and host of the radio program This is a ringing miracle — ditty at the all-Union radio.
In 1990, Gennsdiy Zavolokin awarded the State prize of Russia For the concert programes.
In 1995 he was awarded the title of People's artist of the Russian Federation.
In 1998, the second State prize of Russia for a series of TV programs Play, an accordion.
In 1999 — award of the Union of writers of Russia Trumpeting Angel.
He is the author of about 700 songs, 7 collections of ditties, 5 editions of music, autobiographical book about the creation of the program Play, the accordion, various articles, essays, newspaper articles. In the period 1999-2001 he headed the illustrated magazine about folk art.
Died in a car accident on 8th of July, 2001 on the bridge over the river Sharap in Orda district of Novosibirsk region. He was buried on the Zaeltsovsky cemetery in Novosibirsk.
Through the efforts of friends and numerous fans of the Distinguished Artist of Russia, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation – Gennadiy Zavolokin,
we made a decision to hold on the Siberian land regular (every two years) International Festival Play, the accordion , named after Gennadiy Zavolokin (2008).
On this this musical project huge creative resource of our country and abroad are gathered together.
Many artists, previously participated in the project say with certainty that the larger and more significant events, dedicated to folk art doesnt't exist in Russia today.
... The common people and their work is the main point of the festivals, conducted by the Russian Center Play, the accordion. Common people are the founders and creators of the modern Russian national culture, which creates the nationhood.
Zavolokin's festival has become truly international, in which take part and present their work not just Russian nuggets and musicians from the Kuril Islands to Kaliningrad, but, primarily, all of the the near abroad, as well as Germany, Israel, Austria, USA.
There is no ethnic boundaries, and religious and ethnic conflicts at the festival. All participants are united by love for folk art and homeland.
It is usually attended to hundreds of bands and singers, who total number is up to thousands of people. And what is typical, is that each performance of band or artist begins with songs about their love to the motherland. And this is not a requirement of the festival, it happens spontaneously. The festival has become a place where
ordinary people are free to declare about their love for the country and they make it truly and sincerely, idespite the difficulties of our time.
So one of the main conclusions of the past festivals near Novosibirsk is reasonably can be like this : people love their homeland with all their hearts , and the more difficulties the Fatherland has, the higher the degree of love raises.
It must me said that the festival is not folk, which generally tend to preserve and pass on the baton to younger generations how uncomplicated and undistorted the tradition of folk singing, dancing, language features. All of this take place in the festival
program, but the main content of the festival is about modern creativity of the people.
A feast of Axe and Russian ovens are held on the festival. More than that, many objects and festival grounds are created by the hands and the ability to accordionists, singers, dancers. Growing up each time with new objects and traditions, festival village of Zavolokin becoming more beautiful, more profound, it is a man-made monument to the creator of the program of Russian accordion, folk talent and creativity. This is another distinctive feature of this project: the material expression of folk music is playing here: in stone, in a tree, in the rising to the sun its krone orchard…
Victory Day Parade in Pictures - Stalingrad Battlefield Tours - Wolgograd Victory Day Parade #rus
Visit Wolgograd formerly known as Stalingrad - We will join the Victory Day Parade in Wolgograd and celebrate 9th of May with the locals. We also going to see the war memorials and war cemetery.
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Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War. It was first inaugurated in the 16 republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (after midnight, thus on 9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin. Though the official inauguration occurred in 1945 the holiday became a non-labour day only in 1965 and only in certain Soviet republics.
In East Germany, 8 May was observed as Liberation Day from 1950 to 1966, and was celebrated again on the 40th anniversary in 1985. In 1975, a Soviet-style Victory Day was celebrated on 9 May. Since 2002, the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has observed a commemoration day known as the Day of Liberation from National Socialism, and the End of the Second World War.
After regaining their independence from the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries now commemorate the end of World War II on 8 May, the Victory in Europe Day.
During the Soviet Union's existence, 9 May was celebrated throughout the USSR and in the countries of the Eastern Bloc. Though the holiday was introduced in many Soviet republics between 1946 and 1950, it only became a non-labour day in the Ukrainian SSR in 1963 and the Russian SSR in 1965. In the Russian SSR a weekday off (usually a Monday) was given if 9 May fell on a Saturday or Sunday.
The celebration of Victory Day continued during subsequent years. The war became a topic of great importance in cinema, literature, history lessons at school, the mass media, and the arts. The ritual of the celebration gradually obtained a distinctive character with a number of similar elements: ceremonial meetings, speeches, lectures, receptions and fireworks.
In Russia during the 1990s, the 9 May holiday was not celebrated with large Soviet-style mass demonstrations due to the policies of successive Russian governments. Following Vladimir Putin's rise to power, the Russian government began promoting the prestige of the governing regime and history, and national holidays and commemorations became a source of national self-esteem. Victory Day in Russia has increasingly become a celebration in which popular culture plays a central role. The 60th and 70th anniversaries of Victory Day in Russia (2005 and 2015) became the largest popular holidays since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In 2015 around 30 leaders, including those of China and India, attended the 2015 celebration, while Western leaders boycotted the ceremonies because of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.
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