Posted on 10/19/2018 3:51:27 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
For the first time in 11 years, Moscow city authorities refused permission for an annual ceremony honouring victims of Stalin's terror.
Memorial, the country's oldest rights group, holds a 12-hour ceremony every year on October 29, where hundreds of people read out names of those killed during Stalin-era repressions.
The group said Moscow city authorities had refused permission this year for "The Return of Names" ceremony at the memorial on Lubyanka Square - outside the headquarters of the current security service and its Stalin-era predecessors.
"Today, October 19, that is 10 days before the ceremony was due to go ahead, permission was withdrawn by the Moscow city hall," the group said in a statement.
"This action is outrageous not only because of the Moscow authorities breaking promises that they had many times given and confirmed," it said.
"The officials did not consider it necessary to apologise in any form whatsoever."
Historians estimate about a million people perished in Stalin's Terror or Great Purge in the 1930s.
Memorial, which also speaks out about current human rights violations in Russia, has come under increasing pressure from the authorities in recent years.
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Ping.
It makes me sick to my stomach.
The world, the Middle-East, might be a totally different place if the Deep State hadn’t completely and maybe permanently sabotaged the US/Russian relations.
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