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Russia’s history of the early 20th century was characterized by tragic, sorrowful, and painful events. This fact is acknowledged by liberals, patriots, and orthodox communists. Indeed, the last group of people, having acknowledged the Stalin terror and its victims, is trying to justify their deeds through some supreme expediency and state necessity. Nevertheless, mass repressions themselves and their victims are not denied any more. Yet Russia hasn’t shown any signs of repentance or remorse. The «uncovered»* truth horrified the society but didn’t become the catharsis. Quite the contrary, it’s become rather a minor issue on the scales of individual and public awareness. The reasons for that vary and remain unclear, still they center around numerous dark days of the Russian history, the shame which people feel for their country, and the lack of readiness to take on responsibilities for the deeds of fathers and grandfathers which resulted in the recent history. And, of course, there is more to that: public policy, intrigue…
Society is not ready to take and thus free itself from the past which is «striving after the living ones». The past that «hasn’t left» and «become the past» yet is a very heavy burden… Unwilling to take the common past, the history of the country, «the power», descendants of political repression victims and political repression survivors themselves are eager to preserve their own, «individual» past.
The first Memorial park alley – The Alley of Sorrow – is located on the territory of the former shooting ground of «Perm-36» camp guards between high security and special treatment areas. Next to it there is a «GULAG archipelago» map – a map of the USSR (1165*660 ft) which shows the main GULAG camp centers. The map will also mark GULAG camp administrations as well as territorial administrations of correctional labor camps and settlements. Besides, it will depict an obelisk in the memory of the Communist terror and large artifacts from the main camps of the country.
A tree can be planted in the Memorial park The Memory Woods of Political Repression Victims to commemorate any specific person who was a victim of political repressions in the USSR. Thus, in the future the territory of the park might take hundreds of hectares of land, surrounding the former camp: «Perm-36».
The Memorial park The Memory Woods of Political Repression Victims project was initiated and realized by the Memorial Museum for the History of Political Repressions Perm-36 and Perm Youth Society Ural-Service.
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