The designer, who has moved the faces of victims of repression to the present, told how the project began. A PHOTO

Few have heard of the Moscow cartoonist Khasan Bakhaev, but on October 27 everyone started talking about him. On the eve of the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression, the artist posted on Facebook a collage depicting Tamara Litsinskaya, who was shot in 1937. He placed a photograph of a woman in the "modern ...

The designer, who has moved the faces of victims of repression to the present, has launched an impressive photo project.

Moscow cartoonist Khasan Bakhaev was unknown to the general public until last week. However, in three days hundreds of people learned his name. Hasan brought the victims of Stalin's repression to our time. He showed how people who were killed long ago would look like if they lived now. This…

The geography of the Stalinist camps and executions

October 30 in Russia is the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression. But how many people were killed in the USSR during the “Great Terror” of 1937-39, as well as before and after it, is still not known exactly. As “Present Tense” writes,...

Russian found great-grandfather executioners through 78 years after the execution

Denis Karagodin, a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy of Tomsk University, identified the names of everyone who was guilty of falsifying charges and shooting his great-grandfather. He traced the criminal chain - from the Kremlin initiators of the Great Terror to ordinary perpetrators in Tomsk, right up to the drivers of the "black funnels" and...

Stalin's terror: Jewish victims and executioners

Today is the Day of Remembrance of Political Repression. There is a lot of talk in Moscow about victims and executioners. The Jews were both, and the executioners themselves often ended up in their own meat grinder. Here I am looking at a document that is 75 years old - from 13...

Foreign Affairs: Crimea: losing its religion

“Our people survived the Stalinist deportation,” said the director of the ATR television station, which until April 1 was the only functioning Crimean Tatar TV channel. "Will he survive the current problems?" The Russian authorities have just closed this station, as well as other media outlets, refusing ...

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