Yakubovich: Minsk should have monument to victims of political repressions

"Readers write to our editors' desk, arguing that there is a certain injustice - a historical and moral one - that Minsk doesn't have a monument to the victims of political repressions," Nasha Niva quotes the editor-in-chief of SB/Belarus Today newspaper Pavel Yakubovich as saying during the Editors' Club show in Belarus state TV channel 1. "Sadly, but a great number of people became the victims of aggressive doctrines fighting for power. Why don't we have such a monument? If the Lenin monument has a certain artistic value, which it definitely has, why demolishing it, I mean, we are not barbarians. However, there should also be a monument to the victims of political repressions." 

Yakubovich also recalled Kurapaty. "Why is there such an unexplainable attitude to Kurapaty in our society? Kurapaty is a cemetery. Priests and KGB officers are buried there... Why did the state apparatus give this place away to those who like making fuss of anything? They just wander around there, stamping like elephants, and argue..." Yakubovich said.
 

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