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The "White Guard conspiracy" of 1933 is one of the largest cases (in terms of the number of repressed), fabricated by employees of the OGPU HRC in Western Siberia in the 1920-1930s.

According to official data, on 01/08/1977 three explosions thundered: at 17:33 - in a subway train car between the stations "Izmailovskaya" and "Pervomaiskaya", at 18:05 in the trading floor of the grocery store No.

Materials of Syakov Yuri Alexandrovich (1952 - 2007), a well-known Volkhov journalist, writer, former editor-in-chief of the Volkhov Lights and Volkhov Land newspapers.

Composition: Bezhuashvili B., Gamsakhurdia Z., brothers Grigory and Isai Golstein, Dzhanelidze T. and Rtskhiladze V.

The Initiative Group for the Protection of Human Rights in the USSR was the first openly operating independent civil association in the USSR.

IS became the first openly operating independent civic association in the Soviet Union. The group was founded in May 1969 in Moscow on the initiative of Petr Yakir and Viktor Krasin. In addition to them, the IG included: Muscovites Tatyana Velikanova, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Sergey Kovalev, Alexander Lavut, Anatoly Levitin (Krasnov), Yuri Maltsev, Grigory Podyapolsky, Tatyana Khodorovich and Anatoly Yakobson, Vladimir Borisov from Leningrad, Henrikh Altunyan from Kharkov and Leonid Plyushch from Kiev, Mustafa, an activist of the Crimean Tatar movement from Uzbekistan Mustafa Dzhemilev.

The group was a team of authors who prepared the texts of open appeals addressed primarily to the UN and containing information about political persecution in the USSR. The activities of the IG continued until 1976, when its public function was actually transferred to the Moscow Helsinki Group. IS members were subjected to various kinds of repression; 11 out of 15 members were arrested and convicted, seven were forced to leave the country.

Info: http://www.memo.ru/history/diss/ig/appeal/

A collection of uncensored texts by well-known writers (Bella Akhmadulina, Andrey Voznesensky, Evgeny Rein, Vladimir Vysotsky, Yuz Aleshkovsky, Genrikh Sapgir, Yuri Karabchievsky, Yuri Kublanovsky and others) and authors who were not allowed to the official press.

Published in 12 copies in Moscow in 1979 by samizdat. Design of the almanac - Boris Messerer, David Borovsky.

One of the copies of the almanac was illegally exported to the USA and published by Ardis Publishing, first in a reprint way, and later in a new set. The fictionalized history of the Metropol almanac is contained in Vasily Aksenov's novel Say Raisins.

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"Ostarbeiter" (German: Ostarbeiter - worker from the East) is a term adopted in the Third Reich to designate people taken from Eastern Europe for the purpose of using them as free or low-paid labor (1942-1944). German officials (including the direct author of the term, Hermann Goering) used this term to designate "forced laborers from the East" who were originally from the territories of Eastern Europe that became Soviet after September 17, 1939, in accordance with the order of the government of the USSR of September 17, 1939, according to which the territories of Western Belarus and Western Ukraine were annexed to the Soviet Union by military means.

There is another semantic understanding and use of this term: the Soviet authorities and society used this term to designate all citizens deported by the German authorities to the territory of the Reich for the purpose of using them as labor.

Systematic repressions against the “Harbinites”, former employees of the CER and remigrants from Manchukuo, began on September 20, 1937, when an operational order was issued by the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR N. I. Yezhov No. The order reported that the NKVD bodies registered up to 25,000 people, and references were made to Accounting Intelligence and Operational Materials. They stated that “the overwhelming majority of the Harbinites who left for the USSR consist of former white officers, policemen, gendarmes, members of various emigrant spy-fascist organizations, etc.” They are allegedly agents of Japanese intelligence, which for a number of years sent them to the Soviet Union for terrorist, sabotage and espionage activities. The order listed the categories of "Harbinites" who were liquidated or arrested. Among them, among other things, were called members of various organizations (“Christian Union of Young People”, “Russian Student Society”, “Brotherhood of Russian Truth”, “Union of Musketeers” and others), as well as persons who served in foreign firms, owners and co-owners of various enterprises in Harbin.

Those arrested were divided into two categories: those “exposed in sabotage, espionage, terrorist, wrecking and anti-Soviet activities” were sentenced to “shoot”, less active were expected to be imprisoned for a period of 8 to 10 years.